January, 2012

I undertook an interesting exercise last night. And the results surprised even me. Comparing The Spanish Helmet with NZ 2011 Top Ten Fiction Nielsen produce lists of top selling books in New Zealand. You can find this information on the Booksellers NZ website. I took the list of the top 10 selling NZ fiction for adults and compared the statistics, rankings, reviews, and likes of these on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Goodreads (a popular social network for book lovers) with the same for The ...Read more»

The Spanish Helmet was reviewed in the Southland Times on the 21st January, 2012. For those of you without access to this paper, the review follows: Alternate History Delivers The Spanish Helmet By Greg Scowen (Whare Rama Books, $20 for an autographed copy by post) Reviewed by Jillian Allison-aitken New Zealand author Greg Scowen has come up with an interesting concept for his conspiracy thriller The Spanish Helmet: what if the officially accepted history of New Zealand is wrong? A mysterious Spanish helmet sitting ...Read more»