Life As A Novel : Biography Of Maurice Shadbolt : Volume Two 1973 - 2004

Here Temple tells of Shadbolts journalism and his demolition of the myths surrounding the Gallipoli campaign with his ground-breaking play Once on Chunuk Bair and subsequent documentary work.

He tells of Shadbolt's growing stature as a novelist which produced such works as the unique The Lovelock Version and culminated in his New Zealand Wars trilogy, begun with the now New Zealand classic, Season of the Jew.

He also concludes the story of Shadbolt\'s fraught personal life as, by the end, he had been married four times and been involved in many affairs. It is a fascinating but ultimately tragic story about a man who had become New Zealands most well-known and controversial author.