Sending 7 Jaded Kiwis off to the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel

Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel

Seven Jaded Kiwis off to be judged for the Ngaio Marsh Wards for Best Crime Novel and Best First Novel in New Zealand. I am on the very long list, now to get on the short list.

Review of The Jaded Kiwi from the New Zealand Book Council.

Given the author’s background, it’s fitting that this debut crime novel is a rollicking, madcap tale full of colourful characters. Spill grew up in 1960-1970s New Zealand and curated exhibitions at the National Gallery in Wellington before heading overseas, where he’s worked as a bodyguard and is now chief investigator for a government agency in Florida.

It’s summer in Auckland, 1976. Marijuana is in short supply. Two couples – a physicist and gynaecologist, and a violinist and actress – meet in a pub, help a Maori leader evade police, and find themselves caught up in the growing war on drugs and organised crime. It’s as crazy and fun as it sounds. Spill delivers the kind of crime tale that would appeal to fans of caper stories like Oceans’ Eleven and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. Dark crime mixed with humour, packed with craziness yet still flows and fits together. This is an enjoyable if slightly over-the-top treat that never takes itself too seriously, and is very Kiwi.

Book Gifts for special people this Season

Here are three books available on Amazon as paperbacks or e-books worldwide you can gift to someone special

RELUCTANT Q

Reluctant Q - a WWII Adventure - a true story how one conscript fought overwhelming odds, the Japanese Army, the jungle, disease, the British Army bureaucracy and came back to London in one piece. George Spill's story - reedited by his son Nick Spill.

kukri not included - but featured in the true story

THE JADED KIWI

For the Jaded Person in your life who needs a gripping thriller with lots of sick over the top action get them The Jaded Kiwi - murder, marijuana, mayhem.

manuka honey not included - but it is in the story

The Way of the Bodyguard

For that special man or woman whom you want to protect you - give what has been called "the bodyguard's bible."

with endless bodyguard shifts there is always another Red Bull.

Nick Spill on the radio The Public Storyteller

The Beginning of the Art Deco District 

and a Homage to Ira Lieberman

Below is a link to recent story I told on WLRN The Public Storyteller.

http://wlrn.org/post/nick-spill-art-deco-district-begginings-0

The Jaded Kiwi at the Miami Book Fair

Nick Spill will read The Jaded Kiwi at the Miami Book Fair

At the Miami Book Fair - Saturday November 19 at 2 pm - 3 pm Room 7128, Building 7 Miami-Dade College/Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave, Miami.
I will be reading from my new dark Kiwi noir novel THE JADED KIWI, answering questions and signing books. Please join me. Arrive early, the Books & Books reading was standing room only.

The Public Storyteller on WLRN

I will be telling a story about Art Deco Weekend, the early days of the Save the Art Deco District, my dear friend Ira Lieberman fighting Nazis and the meaning of "Cut more velvet!" On WLRN The Public Storyteller at 4 pm Sunday October 30th. I will post the url once its online, sometime later.

Local Author Luncheon Nick Spill @MBJCC September 21

See Nick Spill at Local Authors Luncheon September 21, Wednesday at 12 NOON.
Miami Beach JCC - 4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach
Register at stella@mbjcc.org  $15  -includes lunch.

Packing out Books & Books on a Monday night with The Jaded Kiwi

Books & Books reading of The Jaded Kiwi in Coral Gables

Thank you everyone for turning up and listening to the reading of The Jaded Kiwi. And for buying all the books!
Remember to support your local bookstore - in this case Books & Books - the leading independent  bookstore in South Florida - Coral Gables - Miami Airport, Miami Beach and Bal Harbor plus other locations.

Without local independent bookstores we would have not have such a diversity of books and book readings!