
Updates on where you can find my memoir/literary nonfiction novel, ‘Foundations’:
In Aotearoa, the paperback (ISBN: 9780473636890) can be purchased from Unity Books in Wellington or online: https://unitybookswellington.co.nz/product/foundations/
Or from Good Books in Wellington or online: https://shop.goodbookshop.nz/p/foundations
Or by contacting me directly: speedyresearchconsulting@gmail.com
The paperback, ebook (ISBN: 9780473636906) and Kindle (ISBN: 9780473636913) versions are also available worldwide from a number of online stores: https://books2read.com/u/mlLM27
‘Foundations’ is all about decolonising history and as such I would love to see it in as many libraries as possible. Please consider requesting that your local or university library buys it for its collection. You will need to cite the paperback ISBN when requesting. Thank you
It has received numerous 5 star reviews (averaging 4.8 on Goodreads). The most recent reader feedback called it “a courageous book” and the reader “learned a lot about New Zealand and Kanaky New Caledonia, finding the genealogical aspect fascinating”. They said, “I loved the weaving between the bildungsroman of the researcher, the taste of the archives, the love for languages and the developing political conscience, the decolonising story and the family and historical passages”.
Here is a short video of me from the NZSA writers read YouTube channel reading chapter 5, ‘Papatoetoe’, from ‘Foundations’.
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