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Both Feet in Paradise

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Making Meredith

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Sun God

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28 Days in Sri Lanka

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100 Days in Samoa

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Andy writes contemporary fiction, science-fiction and travel.

His book Both Feet in Paradise was shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers best adult fiction novel of 2022.

His new science fiction book Brightest Star will be available in August 2022.

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New sci-fi title, Sun God, released on Friday 29th Feb

The second book in The Assumptors – the Voyage of Domina Penelope series is released on Friday 29 Feb. The title is Sun God and it continues where Brightest Star left off… After founding a colony on the remote moon of Freyja, the missionary order of Assumptors resumes searching for a new Earth. Yet its…

New Novel Coming Out Soon

My new novel, a science fiction adventure, Brightest Star, will be published in New Zealand at the beginning of August. It’s about a missionary group who abandon a dying Earth and sail to the stars to find a replacement world on which to live… or so they think. “Stars don’t twinkle. They burn like a…

Better Off Read Interview

I was very pleased to be interviewed by Wellington writer Pip Adam on her Better Off Read podcast. Pip kindly arranged this interview with Bridget van der Zijpp and me to replace our cancelled session, Time, Love, Memory, at the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts. Listen to the interview here…

Sisyphus in Sāmoa: Review in Landfall

Really pleased to see my book Both Feet in Paradise reviewed in Landfall by Shana Chandra. There’s a good deal of thought and detail gone into this review – and I have to thank the reviewer, Shana Chandra, for reading my book so thoroughly and kindly. As a writer, it’s always slightly strange (like going…

Review of Both Feet in Paradise by alysontheblog

It’s always a pleasure to read a well considered review of one of my books, and alysontheblog’s review of One Feet in Paradise is definitely in this category. As well as appreciating the time and effort Alyson has spent reading my book and then writing about it (thank you!), reviews like this one also give…

Venturing Outside Hermit Kingdom

It has been two and half years since I last used a passport, last stepped on a plane, last went anywhere overseas. Covid has curtailed travel for most of us and now I am about to venture outside the country again, I’m feeling nervous. All those viruses lurking out there, mutations of mutations, gathering in…

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