Congratulations to Mark Derby, whose book Rock College: A unofficial history of Mount Eden Prison, has won the non-fiction category of the 2021 New Zealand Heritage Literary Awards.
Judges Katie Pickles and Sally Blundell said: ‘Rock College is an engaging, compassionate and thoroughly-researched exploration of the dark heritage of the forbidding, sprawling Mt Eden Prison in Auckland. In exploring this history, Mark Derby shines a new light on our colonial and more recent past: our wars and protests; our attitudes to women, children and people of different ethnicities; our criminals, our layabouts, our victims.’
