Dr Tony Shaw

'Under this Stone lie the Remains of M rs Sarah Penſon Relict of the Late Samuel Penſon of London who died Jan y 1790 aged 69 Y...

Joseph Joffo's Un sac de billes ( A Bag of Marbles ) was translated into eighteen languages and turned into a movie, and yet I can...

    'JOSEPH RAYNER STEPHENS BORN 1805 DIED 1879' 'SCATTER THE SEED! THE SEED OF TRUTH BELIEVING IT WILL GROW. LO...

'JETHRO TINKER BORN 25TH SEPTEMBER 1788 DIED 10TH MARCH 1871.'     'OUR LOCAL LINNAEUS'     'FIEL...

In St Mary's churchyard, Droylsden, are two graves of writers side by side. This is James Burgess's. 'ERECTED BY HIS F...

  Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was born in Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire. His father (also named Isaac)...

This is the impressive setting for Ammon Wrigley's statue in High Street, Uppermill, Saddleworth. *   James Collins's bro...

In her biography of the New Zealand writer Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–72), Julia Millen mentions that his crime was 'being differen...

Anna Kavan (1901–1968) spent just twenty-two months in New Zealand, and from what she wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon in Septemb...

In Symonds Street Cemetery:     'IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK EDWARD MANING KNOWN TO COLONIAL FAME AS THE AUTHOR OF OLD NE...

Frankie McMillan is a graduate of Bill Manhire's MA writing course at Victoria University, Wellington, and her first published book w...

  Albert Wendt's Sons for the Return Home is what I like to call an anonymous novel: not in that author has no name, but in that th...

'KAWE REO / VOICES CARRY   'VOICE CARRIES US FROM THE FOOT OF RANIPUKE / SKY HILL / ALBERT PARK TO THE WAI HOROTIU STREAM C...

I don't have a literary example to give here, but then I don't need one as the photo is eloquent enough. All the same, the volca...

'FRANK SARGESON (1903–1982) lived at this address from 1931 until his death. Here he wrote all his best known short stories ...