Peter Wells

Guest writer

Peter Wells is an author and film-maker. His most recent book Journey to a Hanging was longlisted for the 2016 Ockham Book Awards. Peter was born in Auckland in 1950.

Peter Wells. Image: Supplied.

Queer objects: a last word from Peter Wells

In what's thought to be the last piece of writing Peter Wells completed before he died, he wonders about his great-grandfather, and the locket he wore all his life.

By Peter Wells | 15th October, 2019

The third best book of 2018: Calypso by David Sedaris

The third best book of 2018: Calypso by David Sedaris

All week this week we count down the five best books of 2018. Number three: Peter Wells reviews Calypso by David Sedaris.

By Peter Wells | 19th December, 2018

Hello Darkness: the final instalment recording Peter Wells’ life with cancer

Hello Darkness: the final instalment recording Peter Wells’ life with cancer

The fifth - and final - instalment of Peter Wells’ diary of life with cancer.

By Peter Wells | 9th May, 2018

Hello Darkness: Peter Wells’ life with cancer, part 4

Hello Darkness: Peter Wells’ life with cancer, part 4

The fourth instalment of Peter Wells’ diary of life with cancer, republished from his private Facebook with permission.

By Peter Wells | 10th April, 2018

Peter Wells’ partner Douglas Lloyd Jenkins waits at the hospital. Photo: Peter Wells

Hello darkness: Peter Wells’ life with cancer, part 3

The third instalment of Peter Wells’ diary of life with cancer, republished from his private Facebook with permission.

By Peter Wells | 21st February, 2018

Hello darkness: Peter Wells’ life with cancer, part 2

Hello darkness: Peter Wells’ life with cancer, part 2

The second instalment of Peter Wells' diary of life with cancer, republished from his private Facebook with permission.

By Peter Wells | 18th January, 2018

Hello darkness: Peter Wells on finding himself in the cancer ward

Hello darkness: Peter Wells on finding himself in the cancer ward

Acclaimed New Zealand author Peter Wells' diary 'talking about what I saw, was going through, thought' since his cancer diagnosis.

By Peter Wells | 7th December, 2017

‘When I last met Edmund White he had a hot date with a skinny Asian boy in Auckland’

‘When I last met Edmund White he had a hot date with a skinny Asian boy in Auckland’

Peter Wells reviews Our Young Man by Edmund White

By Peter Wells | 21st September, 2016

Roof of modern house

‘An insight into the dreams and erotic longings of a young gay man – with a taste for big cock’

Peter Wells expands on his recent, pathetically small Listener review of What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell

By Peter Wells | 27th July, 2016

What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this: Katherine Mansfield on the Napier-Taupo road

What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this: Katherine Mansfield on the Napier-Taupo road

An essay by Peter Wells on a new "sacred text" by her holiness Katherine Mansfield - 20 pages of jottings from a summer holiday on the Napier-Taupo road when she was 19.

By Peter Wells | 15th June, 2016