This is always a spell in the life of an author. Of his time at the Randell Cottage Wells writes that it was important “because it gave me five months to live without having to think about money. Remittance men were sent away from Britain to live in a colony on a small and regular sum – a remittance. His second novel, Iridescence (2003) spans three decades of the Victorian age. His memoir, Long Loop Home (2001) won the Biography Award in the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. With Stephanie Johnson he is co-founder of the Auckland Writers’ Festival. Stead) of the 1999 Landfall essay competition. Wells is equally known as a film and television director and scriptwriter, most notably for A Death in the Family (1986), which won a major New York award for its drama about the loss of a friend to AIDS and for the feature film Desperate Remedies (co-written and directed with Stewart Main, starring Lisa Chappell, Jennifer Ward-Leyland and Cliff Curtis), selected to screen at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. One of Them! was published to coincide with the screening on TV of the film version in September 1999. One of Them! (1999) is a novella narrated by the same character, Jamie, who narrated the novel Boy Overboard. Wells’ second collection, The Duration of a Kiss was published in 1994 and his first novel, Boy Overboard, in 1997. Peter Wells (1950-2019) won the New Zealand and Reed awards for fiction with his first short story collection, Dangerous Desires (1991).
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