Latest Barbara Unkovic book published

We love it when past winners of the Global Short Story Competition go on to great things so we were delighted to hear that the long-awaited sequel to Weeds in the Garden of Eden, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, by Barbara Unković, will be released on 30 April.
Barbara is a keen and perceptive observer of the human condition, as her previous award- winning books, including Moon Walking and Weeds in The Garden of Eden, have revealed.
Shortly after the new millennium began, Barbara and her husband Denis underwent the most dramatic possible. The couple left Australia’s Sunshine Coast, their very comfortable lifestyle and their flourishing coffee importing and roasting business, for an entirely different life in a far-off corner of the world.
 Following Barbara’s desire to examine her Croatian heritage in depth, they moved to her grandfather’s birthplace, the tiny picturesque village of Račišće on the small island of Korcula off the coast of Croatia.
They encountered the rawness of the war, which left deep scars in the Croatian psyche, as well as the entrenched Communist mindset, extreme nepotism, out of control officialdom and deeply ingrained distrust including fear of foreigners.
After seven years, the couple no longer live in Račišće, and this book, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing explains in part why they chose to move on, and perhaps it also offers the reader a cautionary tale of what to expect in any so-called paradise.
It’s not all doom and gloom, however, there is fun, love, great eccentricity to be found here and Barbara, who is a restaurant-trained chef, has included some of her favourite recipes from Croatia and her Adriatic and Mediterranean neighbours.
 A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is a funny, sometimes disturbing but very entertaining read - yet another excellent slice of the life from Barbara Unković, whose stature as a writer and keen observer of our many very human foibles, continues to grow with each book.
Barbara is a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors and you can pre-order her latest work through The Book Depository or amazon.com.
More information is available at:
 http://www.bookdepository.com/Wolf-Sheeps-Clothing-Barbara-Unkovic/9781849638906

http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Sheeps-Clothing-Barbara-Unkovic/dp/184963890X/ref=la_B00581QM1C_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397577005&sr=1-5



John Dean