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    • Sarah Thornhill

    Radio New Zealand interview with Kate Grenville on 26th August 2011:

    Go to ABC.net.au and search “Grenville” for several interviews, including  The Book Show with Ramona Koval about Sarah Thornhill, recorded on 26th August 2011 at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

    There’s a short video introduction to Sarah Thornhill at
    http://youtu.be/CpHuZsPv1Lg (or search YouTube)


    and a short reading from the novel at
    http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/sarah-thornhill

     

    Ramona Koval talks to Kate Grenville about Sarah Thornhill

    Ramona Koval: Hello, it’s time for The Book Show on ABC Radio National. Ramona Koval with you, broadcasting live from the Melbourne Writers Festival at Federation Square today. And it’s my great pleasure to welcome a live audience to us and we’re all here for talk of the latest novel from a much loved Australian writer, Kate Grenville.

    It’s the third in a trilogy that began with her novel The Secret River, which won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Community Relations Commission Prize, the Booksellers Choice Award, the Fellowship of Australian Writers Prize, and the publishing industry Book of the Year award. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and the Man Booker Prize and long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Prize.

    The Secret River was a historical novel, set in the early years of the settlement of New South Wales and followed the life and times of William Thornhill, who was sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife and children he eventually takes up land on the Hawkesbury River. And it’s this phrase, ‘takes up land’, that Kate Grenville examines, because it’s a phrase that doesn’t instantly invoke the risk and the bloodshed that actually happened. It was a wonderful and disturbing novel, full of detai

    There’s sometimes a temptation to think of Māori as a people “frozen in time” - that Māori culture and ways of life were unchanged between the time they arrived in Aotearoa sometime before 1300AD until Captain Cook and the Endeavour arrived in 1769.

    But that’s totally wrong! In 500 years, any people are going to change…. A lot! 

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    Or WATCH a video version of the show!

    In this episode we look at:

    • How Māori arrived in Aotearoa.
    • How the first few generations seem to have lived.
    • Evidence of Aotearoa’s “first capital city” at Wairau Bar and the role it may have played in early Māori society.
    • How the extinction of megafauna and a cooling climate seem to have triggered major changes in Māori ways of life.
    • Why Māori had different lifestyles in different parts of Aotearoa.
    • How Māori traded and settled disputes.
    • How the end of the “little ice age” seemed to trigger more changes in Māori ways of life.

     For more on this subject:

    • Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney and Aroha Harris
    • The Making of the Māori Middle Ages by Atholl Anderson, Journal of New Zealand Studies 
    • Māori - Te Ara

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    BOOKS

     

    The Invasion of Waikato/Te Riri ki Tainui, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2024

     

    Fragments from a Contested Past: Remembrance, Denial and New Zealand History(Joanna Kidman, Vincent O'Malley, Liana MacDonald, Tom Roa and Keziah Wallis), Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2022

     

    Voices from the New Zealand Wars/He Reo Nō Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2021

     

    The New Zealand Wars/ Ngā Pakanga o Aotearoa, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2019

    The Great War for New Zealand: Waikato 1800-2000, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2016

    Haerenga: Early Māori Journeys Across the Globe, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2015

    Beyond the Imperial Frontier: The Contest for Colonial New Zealand, Bridget Williams Books, Wellington, 2014

    The Meeting Place: Māori and Pākehā Encounters, 1642-1840, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2012

    The Beating Heart: A Political and Socio-Economic History of Te Arawa (with David Armstrong), Huia Publishers, Wellington, 2008

    Agents of Autonomy: Māori Committees in the Nineteenth Century, Huia Publishers, Wellington, 1998

    EDITED BOOK

    The Treaty of Waitangi Companion: Māori and Pākehā from Tasman to Today(with Bruce Stirling and Wally Penetito), Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2010


    THESIS

    ‘Rūnanga and Komiti: Māori Institutions of Self-Government in the Nineteenth Century’, New Zealand Studies PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, 2004

    MONOGRAPHS

    The Māori Quest for Rangatiratanga/Autonomy, 1840-2000 (with Richard Hill), Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000

    The Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand History(with Bryan Gilling), Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, 2000

    Indigenous Land Rights in an International Context: A Survey of the Literature relating to Australia,

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