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Catherine Chidgey is one of New Zealand's best known and internationally critically acclaimed novelists. She has won pretty much every prize going. Her ninth novel The Book of Guilt is just out.
Rights to The Book of Guilt were the subject of an international bidding war, won by revered British publishing house John Murray (est. 1768), whose publishing canon includes Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Jane Austen's Emma, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and more recently Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions.
Catherine will talk about The Book of Guilt for the first time at the Auckland Writers Festival next week, followed by the Sydney Writers Festival, and will tour the UK before appearing at the Edinburgh Festival in August.
