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Launch event for Dear Oliver
Join us to celebrate the launch of Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History, a colourful and intriguing family history by acclaimed writer, film di...
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Dear Oliver reviewed on Newstalk ZB
Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books gave a glowing review of Peter Wells’ recently released memoir Dear Oliver. Listen here for the full interview with He...
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NZ Listener reviews Dear Oliver
Linda Herrick at NZ Listener reviews Peter Wells’ memoir Dear Oliver: ‘Peter Wells’ haunting new book, Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pākehā History, wi...
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The revolutionary live interview with Peter Wells
The Spinoff has interviewed Peter Wells about his memoir Dear Oliver: ‘The return of the patented Spinoff revolutionary live email interview, this...
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Peter Wells talks to RNZ’s Kim Hill
Peter Wells, author of Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history, was recently interviewed by RNZ’s Kim Hill on her Saturday Morning programme. To l...
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Peter Wells
Peter Wells is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, and a writer/ director in film.
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10 Questions with Peter Wells
1. Why did you want to write this book? Dear Oliver was a book that had been in my mind for years, and the time arrived to write it. 2. It’s the...
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Acclaimed author Peter Wells on finding friends in the isolation of illness
Anneke Smith at Hawke’s Bay Today talks to Peter Wells: Reading Peter Wells’ posts about living with cancer is not as morbid or frightening as one...
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Dear Oliver
A fresh way to look at New Zealand’s history
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No more secrets: Peter Wells talks to David Herkt
Peter Wells, author of Dear Oliver: Uncovering a Pakeha history, talks to David Herkt about his new memoir, and his uncertain future. Read the full...
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Massey Press authors at writers’ festivals
Two literary festivals in different parts of the country but on the same day feature MUP authors this month. Pip Desmond (Song for Rosaleen) is in...
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Massey Press authors appearing at the 2018 Going West Writers Festival
Two Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the 2018 Going West Writers Festival taking place in Titirangi, Auckland, 14–16 September....
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Massey Press authors appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival
We are thrilled to announce that four Massey University Press authors will be appearing at the Auckland Writers Festival, taking place from 15–20 M...
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2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards longlist announced
We are thrilled to have five books on the longlist for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, announced today. Congratulations to Peter Wells (De...
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Hone Morris
Associate Professor Dr Hone Waengarangi Morris (Ngāi Te Rangitotohu, Ngāti Mārau, Ngāti Maru, Ngāi Te Ao Kāpiti) is a member of the leadership team in the office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor Māori at Massey University.
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Announcing the winning poems of the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition
We are thrilled to announce the winning entries from the 2022 Poetry New Zealand Yearbook Student Poetry Competition. The first prize winners will...
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Read an extract from Pātaka Kai: Growing kai sovereignty
Maha ngā tāngata ki runga i te māra, maha ngā kai ki runga i te tēpu When there are more people in the garden, there will be more food on the table...
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Telling the Home Front story
This text is adapted from a speech given by Steven Loveridge at the launch of The Home Front at Palmerston North City Library on 20 November 2019....
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Please support your local bookshop
While we are happy to receive orders direct from the public, we would like to encourage New Zealand bookshops by asking you to consider buying our...
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Raiment: A memoir reviewed in Landfall
Raiment: A Memoir by Jan Kemp has been reviewed in Landfall. Reviewer Wendy Parkins writes: ‘In 1971, the Canadian author Alice Munro wrote: ‘Ther...
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10 Questions with Kate Taylor
Your book has just gone to print. Proud of it? I am definitely proud of it. Young Farmers has been a huge part of my life and I know I’m not alone...
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10 Questions with Andrew Cameron
1. Now that it is published, what pleases you most about your book? Many times when I have recounted stories to various people, about some of the s...
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Katie Pickles’ speech from the launch of With Them Through Hell
With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War – launch held on 15 November at Scorpio Books, Christchurch. Speech gi...
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Short Story Club – 1 November
BUTTERFLY SMITH 1987 The first time they lost Butterfly was in the Auckland railway station. One moment he was standing there guarding the shabby...
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Ian Fraser launches Bill & Shirley
Launch speech, Bill & Shirley by Keith Ovenden We meet in the shadow not just of the pandemic but of the election. So, I want to put it on reco...
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Read the first chapter of One Minute Crying Time
ONE MINUTE CRYING TIME BARBARA EWING IN NEW ZEALAND IN THE 1950s it was very expensive to make a telephone call from one part of the country t...
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Sex scandals and sexism in the swinging 60s
Cathie Dunsford from Newsroom has reviewed Raiment by Jan Kemp, an account of her growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s...
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Frontline Surgeon reviewed in Recorder
Sylvia Martin reviews Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Douglas Jolly by Mark Derby for Recorder: ‘Mark Derby’s biography of Dr Doug J...
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The best illustrated books of 2024: Woolsheds and Herbst
Steve Braunias’s top illustrated nonfiction books for Reading Room includes two Massey University Press titles: Woolsheds: The historic shearing sh...