![]() ![]() I know he's a teenage boy, but I'm sure we got the point the first 10 times. And these insertions weren't put to good use, either you begin to wonder fairly quickly whether Leith ever thinks of anything other than how distressed he is that Stella doesn't love him. The characters, particularly the main character, came across as weak and immature, and it is extremely difficult to follow the story when the main character's voice is barely heard, only inserted every so often to remind us that he exists. If the unnecessary rambling about the setting was cut out, the book would probably have been reduced to half its size. Slow plot and tedious descriptions make this a considerably more boring read than it should've been at one point, Kirkpatrick spends a whole page just describing the greenness of the valley, the way the canopy blocked out the sun, the different plants in said valley, the ground, the soil, etc. ![]() Russell is married to Dorinda, and they have two fine young men, a bichon frise, assorted cats, a ridiculously large Lego collection, a decent Cornishware collection and - finally - a new house in a gully. He is now at work on another novel, The Path of Revenge.Īpart from cartography and writing, his major passions are reading, music - anything except country & western and polka - and sport. ![]() Across the Face of the World was published by Orbit in the UK in May 2006, and the second and third novels will follow at six-monthly intervals. The second volume, In The Earth Abides The Flame, was published in August 2004, with the concluding volume, The Right Hand Of God, published in February 2005. In February 2004 Across The Face Of The World, the first book in Russell's Fire of Heaven fantasy trilogy was published by HarperCollins Voyager Australia, and has been sold into a number of overseas countries. His latest project is an atlas of Bahrain. He has been involved in four other published atlas projects, and continues to work on atlases when he can. During the 1990s he was fortunate enough to work on two major atlas projects, as Deputy Editor of the New Zealand Historical Atlas (Readers Choice winner, Montana Book Awards, 1998), and as author of Contemporary Atlas New Zealand (Montana Book Award finalist, 2000). He is a geography PhD graduate of the University of Canterbury, and currently lectures at the University of Waikato in Hamilton. Russell Kirkpatrick was born in 1961 in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he lived until 2000. ![]()
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