This mortal boy / Fiona Kidman.
Publication details: Auckland : Vintage, 2018.Description: 295 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780143771807 (paperback)
- Black, Albert, -1955 -- Fiction
- Black, Albert, -1955 -- Fiction
- 1900-1999
- Trials (Murder) -- Fiction
- Young men -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Northern Irish -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Biographical fiction
- Murderers -- Fiction
- Murderers
- Social conditions
- Hanging -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Hanging
- Murderers -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
- New Zealand
- Auckland (N.Z.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
- NZ823.2 23
- PR9641 K46 2018
- Winner 2019 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel (NZ).
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | KID | Available | 070075 |
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"Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only twenty when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really happened? Was this a love crime, was it a sign of juvenile delinquency? Or was this dark episode in our recent history more about our society's reaction to outsiders"--Publisher information.
Winner 2019 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Fiction Novel (NZ).