~ Featured Author ~ Peri Hoskins #RPBP

Learn all about Peri Hoskins and his Books, "Millennium – A Memoir" and his upcoming book "East" 

First Lets take a look at Peri!
Peri Hoskins, a child of the twentieth century, was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the second son of a family of five children, four boys and a girl. He is of mixed Maori and Anglo-Celtic ancestry. Peri grew up in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, a provincial city then home to about 30,000 people. He was educated at Whangarei Boys’ High School where he twice won a national essay competition. After completing high school and winning the school prizes for English, History and Geography, Peri went to Auckland University where he studied law and the humanities, including history and English literature.

Peri was substantially based in Australia between 1985 and 2005. He completed his study of law and the humanities at the University of Sydney including several courses in philosophy. He worked as a lawyer in New South Wales before embarking on a 1994 five-month road trip all around Australia. This road trip comprises the material for his soon to be published book, East. Peri subsequently worked as a lawyer in both New South Wales and Queensland, and developed his current specialisation in legal work – civil litigation. In December 1999 Peri travelled to the Kingdom of Tonga to be in the first country in the world to see in the new millennium. The diary of his three weeks in Tonga has become Millennium – A Memoir,  his first book. In 2004 Peri completed a post graduate diploma in film and television production at Queensland University of Technology.
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Peri now lives, writes and works as a barrister (being a self-employed lawyer) in his Maori ancestral homeland of Northland, New Zealand.

And Now let's look into his books!

First Up is "East", due to be released in 2016...

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It’s 1994. Junior lawyer, Vince Osbourne, leaves behind a small, mean and viciously circular life in the city representing petty criminals and takes to the road. He’s lived 30 years. The wide continent of Australia is out in front. He’s almost young. Where will the road lead?
East takes in sunsets; rain in the desert; a five-year-old girl on a bike; a battered former thief and jockey; old-timers; young lovers; beautiful women, and aboriginals in public bars. The open road connects many vignettes making a rich tapestry of human encounters.
East is poignant, gritty, funny, sad and above all: human. Hoskins’ laconic prose captures the harsh, arid country in all its big, empty beauty along with quirky exchanges with strangers, travel buddies, shop assistants, workmates, and friends old and new. A journey without and within, East taps into the spiritual realm that lies beneath this land and its people.
East is Peri Hoskins’ latest novel, due for publication in 2016.


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Next up is  "Millennium – A Memoir"

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It’s December 1999, the cusp of a new Millennium. The tiny Pacific Kingdom of Tonga will be first nation in the world to usher it in. 
Our narrator takes us there to see the sun seton the old and the dawn rise on the new. We discover much more. 

In a time and place of old customs we see the gentle advance of the new. This Pacific paradise is home to a diverse group of human beings at this unique time. Our journey through many human exchanges – quirky, funny, and sad – accompanied by quotes from Hindu scripture echoes through the millennia and asks us what it is to be human in these dark times. 
This book constantly entertains and delves beneath a fascinating surface to examine the quality of our age. 

Millennium—A Memoir is a novella-sized slice of life travelogue that evokes the work of Ernest Hemingway.

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