James McNeish

The Monday Extract: A rogue’s gallery of ‘fatal New Zealanders’

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The high priest of New Zealand non-fiction, Martin Edmond, reveals the curious genesis of his latest book. One day in the summer of 2013 I received a letter from James McNeish. He said he had a proposition to put to me – but that I would have to go to Wellington to find out what … Read more

Book of the week: Finlay Macdonald on a posthumous work by the great maverick of New Zealand letters, James McNeish

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An essay by Finlay Macdonald on a typically brilliant and impossible to categorise work of biographical art by the late James McNeish. A journalist friend of mine once fell foul of the establishment so badly that he was forced to leave the country. It was an unhappy time, and he later suggested he’d like to … Read more