Notes from David McGill: Irish launch date

Friday, 24 October 2008

Irish launch date

The launch of my Irish novel at Kapiti College is on Saturday 25 October, but my blog lists American date time, the day before in the case of my just listed blog about my ancestral Irish eyes smiling. My web consultant will be looking into this anomaly and aiming to change to real south Pacific time. American hegemony will not triumph!

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David McGill

David McGill is a New Zealand social historian who has published 41 books, some fictional recreations and memoirs based on diaries, articles and research. Born and bred in Auckland, he trained as a priest in Christchurch before becoming a teacher in Wellington and then a feature writer on the NZListener, in Sydney for the The Bulletin and later National Times, in London for TVTimes and New Statesman. He returned to the NZListener and then columnist on Wellington’s Evening Post. There he won awards such as the Dulux Feature Writing, Cowan Historical, Jubilee Investigative and Reed Environmental. He was editor of New Times and W5 magazines before becoming a fulltime writer in the mid-1980s with a travel journey round New Zealand by goods train called The G’Day Country. His other books include twice reprinted Ghost Towns of New Zealand; five bestselling dictionaries of Kiwi slang; POW: The Untold Stories of New Zealanders as Prisoners of War; five books of heritage Wellington and the twice-published national heritage buildings of Landmarks; the futuristic volcano thriller Whakaari and the recent prequel From My Cold, Dead Hands; two Auckland-based thrillers about a valuable religious artefact first featured in The Monstrance; the commissioned history of the Customs Department Guardians at the Gate; the biography of NZ’s Rumpole of the Bailey Stacey; and recently a personal history of pop music, The Treadmill Tapes

Friday, 24 October 2008

Irish launch date

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