NZ author switches to Indian storylines

New Zealand author David Hair says he will launch his latest book in Bangalore, India early next week.

His book, Pyre of Queens, published by Penguin Books India, tells an Indian story about Ravindra-Raj, an evil sorcerer-king, vanquished by one of his queens, the spirited Darya.

Hair's first book, The Bone Tiki, won the best first novel award in young adult fiction at the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and he has written a sequel to that fantasy, The Taniwha's Tear.

He moved to New Delhi several years ago when his wife was posted to the New Zealand High Commission there. She had previously lived in Bangalore while learning yoga.

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