A portrait of Auckland in the 1980s, when it was “hellbent on destroying its history one building at a time”
Kelly Ana Morey
Kelly Ana Morey (Ngati Kuri, Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri) is an award-winning author who has been publishing since 1997. Her novels include Bloom (2003) and Daylight Second (2016).
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Book of the Week: 'Our quintessential nastiness'
A historian tries to tell us we live in a wonderful, tolerant, open society, but another truth emerges
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Meet me at the Melba
A portrait of 80s Auckland by Kelly Ana Morey (text) and Darryl Ward (photos).
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'Mad old Māori lady falls off her chair onto a concrete floor. Hilarious'
A brilliant and haunting short story by author Kelly Ana Morey appears in a new anthology of Māori writing. Her setting: 1964, at Kingseat, the former mental institution. Photographs of Kingseat by Emily Lane.