Dear Oliver James Brown

James Brown

and collective

He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in the New Zealand art and literature of the period

’ — Touchstone

but wished you did

Dear Oliver James BrownA fresh way to look at New Zealands history Longlisted for the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards When writer and historian Peter Wells found a cache of family letters amongst his elderly mothers effects, he realised that he had the means of retracing the history of a not untypical family swept out to New Zealand during the great nineteenth century human diaspora from Britain. His family experienced the war against Te Kooti, the Boer War, the Napier