The book Man Alone by New Zealander author John Mulgan was reviewed in the Newsroom Reading Room website during the week starting 15 March. Here are some excerpts:

• Monday : The introduction from Reading Room literary editor Steve Braunias reads:
Man Alone is an incredible book …. John Mulgan, the book’s doomed author, dead of a morphine overdose in a room in Cairo at the end of the war, wanted to write a serious book dealing with society and the political system but his greatest talent was as an action writer. His pages on the 1932 Queen St riot are fast and crazy, full of movement and glimpses; he takes you there. And he takes you with him, too, in the 25-page section set in the Kaimanawas, in sight of Mt Ruapehu.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/man-alone-ākillers-escape-to-ruapehu

• Tuesday: We continue our week-long assessment of a new edition of John Mulgan’s classic novel Man Alone. Today: Cambridge reporter Matteo Di Maio traces the book’s strange journey:
The German fire-bombs hit at night on December 29, 1940, raining down heavily on Paternoster Row in London.  … Paternoster Row had been a bustling hub for the British book trade since the 19th century, and, at Paternoster House, E.C.4, it housed the storerooms of publishers Selwyn & Blount. Tucked inside was almost the entire first edition stock of John Mulgan’s classic New Zealand novel, Man Alone. Six million books — Mulgan’s included — were incinerated.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/the-new-zealand-novel-that-refuses-to-disappear

• Wednesday: Queer alone.We continue our series on the re-issue of John Mulgan’s classic novel Man Alone. Today:  Janet Charman examines the book’s apparent homoerotic subtext
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/mulgan-week-queer-alone

• Thursday: The ultimate dead white male. We conclude our week-long examination of a new edition of John Mulgan’s classic novel Man Alone with a critical assessment by John Newton.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/book-of-the-week-the-ultimate-dead-white-male