 The company was originally based in Dowling Street, close to the city's Exchange neighbourhood, but later moved to Moray Place in the city centre.Longacre specialised in a wide range of non-fiction art, self-help, outdoors, food and natural history and also junior and young-adult fiction.It picked up numerous national book awards, and published work by noted writers such as Owen Marshall, Brian Turner, Lynley Hood, and Jack Lasenby.