Book Launch | The Girl from Sarajevo

Scorpio Books and Quentin Wilson Publishing warmly invite you to the Ōtautahi Christchurch launch of The Girl from Sarajevo: Two Novellas by Stef Harris. All welcome, refreshments provided. Please send in your RSVP.

ABOUT THE BOOK

THE GIRL FROM SARAJEVO

Young and self-assured immigrant Katia will do anything to become a writer. When she encounters her neighbour, an ageing novelist from the old country, she embarks on an audacious plan to represent Dragan’s new novel as her own. Weaponising her sexuality, she enters into a cynical, twisted affair with the elder wordsmith. But Dragan holds a dangerous secret that may destroy them both.

THE OTHER JASMINE
Mail-order bride Wong Ji Li has travelled all the way from Ningbo, China to marry a wealthy man, only to find herself a virtual sex slave, imprisoned on a derelict farm. Her new husband, Darryl, is a giant man-child still under the thumb of his powerful mother. Wong Ji Li discovers she is not Darryl’s first victim. She must find the courage to escape her predicament or face the same fate as the other Jasmine.

These cinematic novellas feature two strong, capable, modern-day heroines determined to make their own way in the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stef Harris is a writer, film director and a frontline police officer of 34 years who in 2017 was awarded the Commissioner’s Commendation for Bravery. He has published three previous works of fiction and in 2006 turned his first novel, The Waikikamukau Conspiracy, into a film. Renamed The Waimate Conspiracy, the film went on to win four best film awards around the world and sparked the beginning of Stef’s sideline career in filmmaking. His arthouse feature film Blue Moon has won several film awards as well as being officially selected for the prestigious Cannes Antipodes Film Festival, screening in Cannes in 2022. In 2024 his novel Double Jeopardy was longlisted in the Ngaio March Awards. Stef lives in Motueka with his wife, Pegeen.