Peter Wells is an author and film-maker. His most recent book Journey to a Hanging was longlisted for the 2016 Ockham Book Awards. Peter was born in Auckland in 1950.
In what's thought to be the last piece of writing Peter Wells completed before he died, he wonders about his great-grandfather, and the locket he wore all his life.
All week this week we count down the five best books of 2018. Number three: Peter Wells reviews Calypso by David Sedaris.
The fifth - and final - instalment of Peter Wells’ diary of life with cancer.
The fourth instalment of Peter Wells’ diary of life with cancer, republished from his private Facebook with permission.
The third instalment of Peter Wells’ diary of life with cancer, republished from his private Facebook with permission.
The second instalment of Peter Wells' diary of life with cancer, republished from his private Facebook with permission.
Acclaimed New Zealand author Peter Wells' diary 'talking about what I saw, was going through, thought' since his cancer diagnosis.
Peter Wells reviews Our Young Man by Edmund White
Peter Wells expands on his recent, pathetically small Listener review of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
An essay by Peter Wells on a new "sacred text" by her holiness Katherine Mansfield - 20 pages of jottings from a summer holiday on the Napier-Taupo road when she was 19.
All week this week we look at writers and writing which ties in with New Zealand's first-ever LGBTI Writers' festival - Samesame but different - staged from February 12-14 at AUT. Today: festival director Peter Wells on two books that meant the world to him as a young gay guy.
Peter Wells reviews Carol, a new reissue of Patricia Highsmith's 'daring masterpiece' - a novel about an obsessive lesbian relationship which never once uses the word 'lesbian'.
