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About Me

NEWSFLASH!! Advance signed copies of my new thriller, The Storm Prophet (Penguin), are now available to buy at my website www.hectormacdonald.com------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------WIN AN INVITATION TO THE GLAMOROUS BOOK LAUNCH ON BOARD A CRUISER IN LONDON - SIMPLY WRITE "MYSPACE" IN THE REQUESTS TEXT BOX WHEN YOU ORDER A SIGNED FIRST EDITION AND YOUR NAME WILL BE INCLUDED IN A DRAW FOR TWO TICKETS TO THIS EXCITING THAMES PARTY - BE QUICK!! ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Hello and thank you to everyone who read my first two books, The Mind Game and The Hummingbird Saint. I'm really pleased to say my new book, THE STORM PROPHET, is coming out in November, once again with Penguin. It's a gripping thriller about the Sydney Hobart yacht race, and the Australian coastguard who has to turn heroine when the race is threatened by disaster. To find out more about THE STORM PROPHET, check out: www.hectormacdonald.com

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My Interests

What makes the world tick: the politics, the emotions, the madness, the religions, the aspirations, the philosophies, the cultures, the places, the threats, the moments of magic

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes books

Music:

Portishead, Tchaikovsky, Aimee Mann, Ella Fitzgerald, Garbage, Puccini, Verdi, Jeff Buckley, Kings of Convenience, Bach, Keane, Goldfrapp, Katie Melua, Marc Anthony, Nat King Cole, R. Strauss, Scott Hamilton, Tribalistas

Movies:

The English Patient, Out of Africa, Shakespeare in Love, Amadeus for the greats; the Bond films always; Spirited Away, Love Me if you Dare, As Good as it Gets, The Truman Show, The Last Seduction, Thomas Crown Affair (Brosnan version), Adaptation

Television:

Lost, The State Within, Heroes

Books:

The Quiet American, The Moor's Last Sigh, Cloud Atlas, The Poisonwood Bible, Bel Canto, Flashman (any), Le Carre (most), Nostromo, In Search of Lost Time (gradually), Brideshead Revisited, On Beauty, The Corrections, The Magus, The Line of Beauty, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts (and sequels)

Heroes:

Try to avoid them (except on TV)

My Blog

Internet video

18.11.07 Internet Video This week, I have been making a video. Writers don't get to say that very often. It's a three-minute video consisting of some interview excerpts, some images ...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:14:00 PST

The Storm Prophet - Chapter One

In the time I knew the boy called Moses, he made three terrible predictions. The first was his own death; the last was something personal to me. But the prediction everyone still talks abo...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:28:00 PST

WIN TICKETS TO THE THAMES LAUNCH PARTY!!

The UK launch of THE STORM PROPHET will take place on a boat on the Thames, and one Myspace friend can win two tickets to be there! Order a signed advance first edition at www.hectormacdonald.com and ...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:47:00 PST

Dutch edition

22.10.07 Dutch edition I've just received my first copies of the Dutch edition, and it's a great looking book. There are two front covers. The top one is cut away along the edge of t...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:50:00 PST

Australian Launch

The Storm Prophet hit the shelves in Australia and New Zealand last week, and received a warm reception from all. I spent a week in Sydney doing interviews and surreptitiously inspecting the pil...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:57:00 PST

First Reader’s Review of The Storm Prophet

10.10.07 First Reader's Review of The Storm Prophet My thanks to Richard van den Berg for this email, received today: I just finished reading The Storm Prophet, and I just wanted to let you kno...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:56:00 PST

Humpty Doo

01.10.07 Humpty Doo There is a small town some forty kilometres outside Darwin called Humpty Doo, and last night I went there with one of my new Darwin friends, Dino. Humpty Doo is possibl...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:48:00 PST

The Rains

28.09.07 The Rains The rains have come to Darwin. Two months early apparently. Thunderous downpours, four or five or them, obliterating everything and turning the streets into rivers...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:04:00 PST

Mangroves

26.09.07 Mangroves Yesterday was a research field day. I've had no luck persuading fishermen or sailors to take me to the deserted stretch of coast I want to use in the book. "Why th...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:02:00 PST

Salties

21.09.07 Salties I have a crocodile problem. Saltwater crocodiles, the biggest reptiles in the world, are everywhere around Darwin. Plastic replicas, signs, names of bars - salties a...
Posted by Hector Macdonald on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:04:00 PST