Solace in the city

Auckland writer Chad Taylor has received a number of reviews commending his latest novel The Church of John Coltrane. A sequel to 1994’s Heaven – made into a film by Miramax in 1998 – The Church of John Coltrane returns to the world Robert Marling, whose father has died and left him a large jazz collection and a pile of questions. He wanders the streets of Auckland in a funk trying to find answers. The book has been positively reviewed in several European publications, including Swiss Le Temps (“boy wonder”) and the French Sud Ouest (“sublime”). Bibliosurf.com compared Taylor with Haruki Murakami, French author Patrick Modiano and Raymond Chandler. Taylor’s 2003 novel Electric is currently being scored as an opera by New Zealand composer Warwick Blair. The Church of John Coltrane is available through French publisher, Christian Bourgois.