The Crime of Huey Dunstan (19 page)
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Authors: James Mcneish
JAMES MCNEISH IS a novelist, playwright and biographer. He was born in Auckland in 1931 and travelled the world as a young man—working as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, in the theatre in London and as a documentary-maker and journalist for the BBC, the
Guardian
and the
Observer
. He has written some twenty-five books, including a biography of Danilo Dolci, the anti-Mafia reformer with whom he worked in Sicily, and has received a number of awards and fellowships. James McNeish lives with his wife in Wellington.
The Crime of Huey Dunstan
is his ninth novel.
Tavern in the Town
Fire Under the Ashes
Mackenzie
The Mackenzie Affair
Larks in a Paradise
The Rocking Cave
1895
The Mouse Man
The Glass Zoo
As for the Godwits
Art of the Pacific
Belonging
Joy
Walking on my Feet
Ahnungslos in Berlin
Lovelock
Penelope’s Island
The Man from Nowhere & Other Prose
My Name is Paradiso
Mr Halliday & the Circus Master
The Mask of Sanity
An Albatross Too Many
Dance of the Peacocks
The Sixth Man
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