Rock College: An unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison [Paperback]

Grim, Victorian, notorious, for 150 years Mount Eden Prison held both New Zealands political prisoners and its most infamous criminals. Te Kooti, Rua Kenana, John A. Lee, George Wilder,
Tim Shadbolt and Sandra Coney all spent time in its dank cells. Its interior has been the scene of mass riots, daring escapes and hangings. Highly regarded historian Mark Derby tells the prisons inside story with verve and compassion.

Inside the forbidding stone walls of New Zealands most infamous gaol

Mark Derby is a New Zealand writer and historian whose work has also been published in Britain, Spain and the US. His previous publications includeRagnar Redbeard: The Antipodean Origins of Radical Fabulist Arthur Desmond(Steele Roberts, 2017),Petals and Bullets: Dorothy Morris: New Zealand Nurse in the Spanish Civil War(Sussex Academic Press/Potton & Burton, 2015),White-collar Radical: Dan Long and the Rise of the White-collar Unions(Craig Potton Publishing, 2013),The Prophet and the Policeman: The Story of Rua Kenana and John Cullen(Craig Potton Publishing, 2009),Kiwi Compa?eros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War(Canterbury University Press, 2009; Spanish-language edition published 2011 in association with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain). He has been jailed but never imprisoned, and lives on Wellingtons south coast with three generations of his family.