Bob Ellis: In His Own Words showcases the best of Ellis's celebrated and much-loved essays, speeches, diaries and scripts, in addition to previously unpublished work, archival photos and reflections from close friends and family.

Compiled by Ellis's widow, Anne Brooksbank, this collection contains all the wit, acuity and outspokenness that we came to expect from this inimitable wordsmith.

Bob Ellis: In His Own Words honours Ellis's illustrious and prodigious writing legacy it's a keepsake for longtime Ellis fans that will also win him may new admirers.

'His mind needed complexity but his heart craved simplicity. And this self-sacrificing country decency was the unshifting moral core on which the rest of him was built.' - Jack Ellis