Congratulations to Jared Davidson on the publication of his new book Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books). Blood and Dirt explains, for the first time, the making of New Zealand and its Pacific empire through the prism of prison labour. Reviewers have described it as a “remarkable book” whose consequence is that nothing in New Zealand’s past will “ever look quite the same again”. Congratulations to Jared!