Books for Adults
Justin’s bestselling travel memoirs – all available as ebooks.
Bowling Through India is the exhilarating true story of Justin’s journey through the heart of India. From the bustling streets of Kolkata to tea shops in Darjeeling, Brown takes readers on a wild ride as he and ‘The Black Craps’ navigate the challenges and triumphs of competing in slums, cemeteries, and exotic locations – mostly against ten-year-old kids! Joining Justin in the van is a high-country farmer, a savvy businessman, a world-class photographer with bowel issues, and a shoestring traveller named Blanket Boy. Together the amateur sportsmen take to the streets of India to face off against kids who can bat and bowl like demons. BUY HERE.
In UK on a G-String (Random House) Justin became the world’s first door-to-door busker in a bid to make enough money to fly home to New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald: ‘Brown has the gift not only of personal charm but of writing about other people with warmth and insight. Through the cold towns of England and Scotland, he treads, regaling surprised Britons with Kentucky Fried Kitten and the dubious Harry Potter Song, slowly collecting the £497 he needs for a ticket home. He meets England’s most famous busker, attends Peter Blake’s funeral at Emsworth, and knocks at the door of J.K. Rowling. A totally engaging read.’ BUY HERE.
Justin never does things in halves. In Search of Swingers tells the story of him touring the U.S.A. and playing golf with whoever is on the front page of the newspaper in every town he visits. Amazingly, he’s not arrested. With charm and wit, Justin blags his way into meeting clowns, a young Beto O’Rourke, Stevie Wonder impersonators, crocodile wranglers, and drunken beauty queens. His journey is full of mayhem, self-discovery, and as it turns out very little golf. You’ll laugh and cringe at the situations this New Zealander gets into in a book that will restore your faith in mad journeys and the kindness of strangers. BUY HERE.
Justin’s other non-fiction titles include Untamed (pictured below) Cricket Speak, Rugby Speak (Random House), and Myth New Zealand (Hurricane Press).
Oh, do you speak Nu Zillund? In Kiwi Speak, Justin Brown eavesdrops at the dinner table, the schoolyard, the farm, and the sports club to bring us an entertaining dictionary of phrases and expressions – the often hilarious, sometimes baffling New Zealandisms we use in everyday life. 30,000 copies sold (Penguin Random House.)
Untamed — Davey Hughes