This Mortal Boy

This Mortal Boy
Author :
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Total Pages : 299
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780143771814
ISBN-13 : 0143771817
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Book Synopsis This Mortal Boy by : Fiona Kidman

Download or read book This Mortal Boy written by Fiona Kidman and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders? Black's final words, as the hangman covered his head, were, 'I wish you all a merry Christmas, gentlemen, and a prosperous New Year.' This is his story. 'A beautiful writer' - The Times Winner of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, the NZ Booklovers Award and the NZSA Heritage Book Award for Fiction.


This Mortal Boy Related Books

This Mortal Boy
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Fiona Kidman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-02 - Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An utterly compelling recreation of the events that led to one of the last executions in New Zealand. Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twen
This Mortal Boy
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Fiona Kidman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-01 - Publisher: Gallic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Winner of The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2019 Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing Awards 2019 Winner of the New Zealand Booklovers Prize for Fiction 201
Boy Nobody
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Allen Zadoff
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-11 - Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

They needed the perfect assassin. Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high scho
The Book of Secrets
Language: en
Pages: 334
Authors: Fiona Kidman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-07 - Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a c
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Brady Udall
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Vintage Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Half Apache and orphaned, Edgar's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven when he is run over by the mailman's jeep, after which he is taken