James Cook's New World
Congratulations to author Graeme Lay on reaching No. 4 on the Nielsen Bestseller Charts with his new novel, James Cook’s New World, a richly imagined account of Cook’s search for the last undiscovered landmass, the Great Unknown Southern Continent. This is the sequel to Graeme’s bestselling novel, The Secret Life of James Cook, published last year.
‘Cook’s second world voyage represented the zenith of his achievements – it’s one of the greatest sea stories of all time,’ says Graeme. ‘I’ve tried to convey the intense physical and mental hardships that Cook’s second world circumnavigation involved for the captain and his crew. Through a private journal that James keeps for his wife Elizabeth, the novel explores the navigator’s most intimate thoughts and feelings during the voyage.’
Calico looks after the world rights for both these novels (published in New Zealand by HarperCollins), and we have had a long association with Graeme’s work. We produced his beautifully illustrated work In Search of Paradise: Writers and Artists in the Colonial South Pacific in 2008. See below to win a copy.
Deborah Shepard shares her passion for the written word
Photo Babiche Martens
We were excited to see one of our authors, Deborah Shepard, featured in last week’s VIVA. Deborah is an Auckland-based writer who teaches memoir at the Michael King Writers’ Centre. We look forward to publishing her book Giving Yourself to Life: A Journal of Chronic Pain in September.
Good reading from the Calico stable
Calico is very pleased for our social media manager Karen, who moonlights as a novelist. Her latest novel The Paris of the East, written under her pen name Karen McMillan, has also hit the Bestseller Charts. This is an historical novel that follows the lives of four young Polish people from just before the start of the Second World War until the war ends in 1945. This novel is inspired by many real life stories of brave Polish men and women.‘While I am not Polish myself, this is a universal story of courage and survival, of humanity and hope, which constantly had me asking what I would have done if I was in the same circumstances,’ says Karen.
Karen has had her fair share of adversity (see the recent NZ Woman’s Weekly interview here) and is one of the co-authors of our book Dying: A New Zealand Guide for the Journey.
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