I’ve fielded a couple of reviews of my book Convicts: New Zealand’s Hidden Criminal Past, which I’d like to share:
‘Wright has done a great job of exposing activities which society had considered best forgotten, and made it interesting reading to boot’ – Graeme Barrow, Northern Advocate, 23 July 2012.
‘…great reading, full of specific real-life personalities and daring escapades, some horrifying, to be measured and understood against the background of Maori and British cultures of those decades of the nineteenth century. This is the first time the tale of New Zealand’s convicts has been told to this detail, in a single book – one destined to become a New Zealand classic. – Jo Keppel, Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 2012
I like it. And here’s the link to my interview Sunday last on RadioLive, 29 July http://www.radiolive.co.nz/Convicts-NZs-Hidden-Criminal-Past/tabid/506/articleID/29638/Default.aspx
Also the link to my 15-minute slot on Jim Sullivan’s Sounds Historical programme on Radio New Zealand National, last night: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/soundshistorical/20120812 My slot starts at 26:47 in Part 2.
Well done mate. Excellent radio interview – good to put a voice to the face.
Thank you! The Radio NZ piece was pre-recorded a few weeks back, in the studio and aired last night.
Brilliant reviews, Matthew.
Thanks…yeah, they’re not too shabby!
Congrats. Here is to more and more success. And thanks for adding my site to your roll
S. Thomas Summers
Author of Private Hercules McGraw: Poems of the American Civil War
Fingers crossed for both of us on the success count. It’s an extremely difficult business just at the moment – but light at the end of the tunnel (I think…)
Congrats on the fabulous publicity!
Thank you! Now it just has to translate into sales…always the hard part