Philip Temple

Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, Maurice Shadbolt played a leading role in projecting New Zealand to the world throughout the second half of the 20th century. In Volume Two, Philip Temple tells of Shadbolt's epic coverage of the W.B. Sutch spy trial, his journalistic probes into the Arthur Allan Thomas case and the Erebus disaster, and his involvement...

Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths, and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction, and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zealand to the world throughout the second half of the 20th century. His overseas...