James McNeish

Honours and awards Recipient of the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, France, 1973 Writer in Residence, Berlin Kuenstler Program, 1983 National Library of New Zealand Research Fellow, 1999 Berlin Writers' Residency 2009 funded by Creative New Zealand, the national agency for the development of the arts in New Zealand. Recipient of the 2010 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in non-fiction. Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, 31 December 2010 New Year Honours. President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors, 2012–2013

Major works Novels Mackenzie (1970) The Mackenzie Affair (1972) The Glass Zoo (1976) Joy (1982) Lovelock (1986; enlarged edition, 2009) Penelope's Island (1990) My Name Is Paradiso (1995) Mr Halliday & the Circus Master (1996) The Crime of Huey Dunstan (2010)

Non-Fiction Tavern in the Town (1957; revised and enlarged, 1984) Fire Under the Ashes: A Life of Danilo Dolci (1965) Larks in a Paradise (with Marti Friedlander) (1974) As for the Godwits (1977) Art of the Pacific (with Brian Brake) (1980) Belonging: Conversations in Israel (1980) Walking on my Feet: A Life of A.R.D. Fairburn (with Helen McNeish) (1983) Ahnungslos in Berlin: A Berlin Diary (1985) The Man from Nowhere & Other Prose (1991) The Mask of Sanity: The Bain Murders (1997) An Albatross Too Many (1998) Dance of the Peacocks: New Zealanders in exile in the time of Hitler and Mao Tse-tung (Vintage Books, 2003), The Sixth Man: the extraordinary life of Paddy Costello (2007) Touchstones – Memories of people and place (2012) Seelenbinder: the Olympian who defied Hitler (2016) ' 'Breaking Ranks-three great stories about conscience and consequence.' ' (2017) Harper Collins.

Plays The Mouse Man (1975) Eighteen Ninety-Five (1975) The Rocking Cave (1973) Thursday Bloody Thursday (1998)

Articles, reviews and essays

Anthology

Not so far from Godwit Bay, In From a Room of their Own, A Celebration of the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship, Auckland, Whitcoulls, (1993)

Articles

A visit to Denis Glover, Quote Unquote (30 Dec 1995) 17–19 Ambush aftermath in New Caledonia, The Press (1991) 18 Did Ulysses just sail round Sicily? The Dominion (1991) 8 Mulgan's War, The Listener (April 1994) 38 Paper exodus sends our literary heritage abroad, The Dominion Sunday Times (1990) 9–20 Paper exodus sends our literary heritage abroad, Archifacts (April 1991) 77–91 Patric's Day (Obit of Patric Carey) The Listener (September 2006)

Biography

Walking on my feet: A. R. D. Fairburn : a kind of biography. Auckland, Collins 1983, New Outlook Dec 1983/Jan 1984 Dec/Jan (1983) 37

Interview The Greek Experience: a conversation with David Kennedy, Art New Zealand 36 (1985) 50–53

Letter Murder in Bainville: an open letter to Graeme Lay, Quote Unquote 25 July (1995) 16–17

Non-Fiction

A war of nerves, The Listener 118.2486 (1987) 16–19 Breaking the silence, The Listener 146.2850 (1994) 20–25 Case closed : how and why David Bain killed his family, The Listener (1997) 18 Lovelock's dream mile, The Listener 145.2839 (1994) 24–25

Tavern in the Town. Wellington: Reed, 1957

The Ends of Empire : Part 1, The Listener 115.2448 (1987) 11–15 The Ends of Empire : Part 2, The Listener 115.2449 (1987) 10–13 The Grand Old Hotels of Thermal-land, Meanjin Quarterly 47 May (1985) 144–148

The Man From Nowhere & Other Prose. Auckland: Godwit, 1991

North and South Dec (1991) 119–123 Walking on My Feet : A. R. D. Fairburn, 1904–1957 : a Kind of Biography. Auckland: Collins, 1983

Who will guard the peace? The Listener ang2057 124.2571 (1989) 12–15 Landfall 37 June (1983) 218–220 New Outlook Autumn (1983) 35

Lovelock' Auckland, Godwit, 1994

New Zealand Runner 49 April (1987) 16

Mackenzie: a Novel Auckland: Godwit, 1995

Affairs 91 Mar (1971). Quote Unquote 22 April (1995) 30–31

Mr Halliday and the Circus Master. Auckland: David Ling Publishing, 1996

Quote Unquote 41 Nov (1996) 30 North and South 128 Nov (1996) 140–142 New Zealand Books 7.1 Mar (1997) 10–11

My Name is Paradiso, Auckland: David Ling Publishing, 1995.

Quote Unquote 24 June (1995) 26 Metro 169 July (1995) 117–119 Landfall 190 Spring (1995) 360–362 New Zealand Books 5.5 Dec (1995) 9-11

Penelope's Island, Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1990

Metro 113 Nov (1990) 180–182 New & Notable 7.5 Nov (1990) 5

The Glass Zoo, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1976

Best Sellers 36 Sept (1976) 184-184 Landfall 30 Sept (1976) 208–211 Islands 5.1 Sept (1976) 100–102

The Mackenzie Affair, Auckland: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972

Profile Last of the fighting brigadiers, New Zealand Herald (1993) 2-2 Last of the fighting brigadiers, The Press(1993) 12 Last of the fighting brigadiers, The Dominion (1993) 11 The man between the rivers, Otago Daily Times (1993) 21 New Zealand Geographic 8 Oct/Dec (1990) 18–41 The man who made social medicine work (George McCall Smith, 1883–1958) The Listener April (1976) 20–21 Review The Listener 1565 Oct (1969) 20 The Dominion Oct (1993) 16 Quote Unquote 38 Aug (1996) 30