Heart Work and Hard Choices
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Rock College
An unofficial history of Mt Eden Prison
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Grim, Victorian, notorious, for 150 years Mount Eden Prison held both New Zealand’s political prisoners and its most infamous criminals. Te Kooti, Rua Kenana, John A. Lee, George Wilder,
Tim Shadbolt and Sandra Coney all spent time in its dank cells. Its interior has been the scene of mass riots, daring escapes and hangings. Highly regarded historian Mark Derby tells the prison’s inside story with verve and compassion.
Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian whose work has also been published in Britain, Spain and the United States. His previous publications include Frontline Surgeon: New Zealand medical pioneer Dougal Jolly (Massey University Press, co-published with University of Nebraska Press, 2024), Rock College: An unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison (Massey University Press, 2020), Ragnar Redbeard: The Antipodean origins of radical fabulist Arthur Desmond (Steele Roberts, 2017), Petals and Bullets: Dorothy Morris: New Zealand nurse in the Spanish Civil War (Sussex Academic Press/Potton & Burton, 2015), White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the rise of the white-collar unions (Craig Potton Publishing, 2013), The Prophet and the Policeman: The story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen (Craig Potton Publishing, 2009), Kiwi Compañeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War (Canterbury University Press, 2009; Spanish-language edition published 2011 in association with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain). He has been jailed but never imprisoned, and lives on Wellington’s south coast with three generations of his family.
- ISBN-13
- 9780995131859
- Publisher
- Massey University Press
- Imprint
- Massey University Press
- Publication date
- 13 August 2020
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- Dimensions
- 230 x 163 mm
- Language
- English
