New Zealand As It Might Have Been II

In 2006, New Zealand As It Might Have Been introduced a way of looking at New Zealand'’s national experience –– its history, society and politics, even its rugby –– as 15 authors considered what could have been rather than simply what was.

Now this book offers a further 17 portraits of ‘New Zealand as it might have been’ –– a mix of short stories and commentaries, some whimsical, others grim, each offering a perceptive and plausible new slant on significant events and personalities.

'‘New Zealand as it might have been excels at the strategic re-lighting of our past’.' —New Zealand Books

'‘Like the additives beloved of petrol companies, these questions clean the cylinders of the brain. …There is enough provocation to fuel a hundred pub and party arguments about what might have been’.' —Gerald Hensley, Dominion Post