Simon Lendrum's guest appearances

Simon Lendrum

Bookenz

Standing Room Only

The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin

NZ Sales & Marketing Insider

OwlTail

In poker, a slow roll is the ultimate example of bad etiquette. It's when a player knows they've got the best hand but waits until their opponent thinks they've won the pot before showing the winning cards. In his novel The Slow Roll, Auckland-based advertising executive Simon Lendrum has introduced a new kind of sleuth to the New Zealand crime scene - O'Malley, a hugely successful poker player who investigates the occasional crime. First O'Malley's asked to find a man's missing teenage daughter, but then there's a murder of one of his poker circle: The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum is published by upstart press

Simon Lendrum's poker-playing sleuth O'Malley

Interviews with NZ writers and poets, visiting authors from around the world and news of local events

Bookenz - Simon Lendrum and Dick Sainsbury

Patrick Worrall

The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum. The author is an Aucklander – used to work in advertising and is now CEO of something called The Commercial Communications Council. The lead character is a guy called O’Malley who’s a poker player (hence the title) and is known for doing favours for people, so no surprise when he’s bailed up by a desperate father saying he needs O’Malley’s help to find his daughter - which he very quickly does, but it appears not all is as it seemed and there’s a lot more at stake than one missing girl. In the gruff, hardboiled world of gambling and big men playing big games, O’Malley’s girlfriend Claire is a brilliant antidote, and Auckland shines.  The Partisan by Patrick Worrall. Set mainly during the Cold War era of the 1960s, the partisan of the title is a Lithuanian woman named Greta who has spent the years since WW2 hunting down the Nazis who killed her friends and she’s become an extremely accomplished and successful assassin with one big target still in her sights. Meanwhile, a couple of young chess prodigies meet at a tournament and become unwitting pawns in a game of international espionage involving the Russian government, a Europe under threat and Greta’s pursuit of justice. It’s really good.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Slow Roll by Simon Lendrum. The author is an Aucklander – used to work in advertising and is now CEO of something called The Commercial Communications Council. The lead character is a guy called O’Malley who’s a poker player (hence the title) and is known for doing favours for people, so no surprise when he’s bailed up by a desperate father saying he needs O’Malley’s help to find his daughter - which he very quickly does, but it appears not all is as it seemed and there’s a lot more at stake than one missing girl. In the gruff, hardboiled world of gambling and big men playing big games, O’Malley’s girlfriend Claire is a brilliant antidote, and Auckland shines.  The Partisan by Patrick Worrall. Set mainly during the Cold War era of the 1960s, the partisan of the title is a Lithuanian woman named Greta who has spent the years since WW2 hunting down the Nazis who killed her friends and she’s become an extremely accomplished and successful assassin with one big target still in her sights. Meanwhile, a couple of young chess prodigies meet at a tournament and become unwitting pawns in a game of international espionage involving the Russian government, a Europe under threat and Greta’s pursuit of justice. It’s really good.  LISTEN ABOVESee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Whitcoulls recommends Simon Lendrum and Patrick Worrall

Insider

Partnering, pitching and positioning: Simon Lendrum, Commercial Communications Council CEO. Ben speaks to Simon Lendrum, Chief Executive of the Commercial Communications Council, industry body representing New Zealand marketing agencies. Simon shares tips on how to foster successful client-agency relationships, thoughts on best practice when it comes to selecting an agency partner as well as a few stories from an ad agency career spanning both hemispheres which listeners will enjoy.

Partnering, pitching and positioning: Simon Lendrum, Commercial Communications Council CEO. Ben speaks to Simon Lendrum, Chief Executive of the Commercial Communications Council, industry body representing New Zealand marketing agencies. Simon shares tips on how to foster successful client-agency relationships, thoughts on best practice when it comes to selecting an agency partner as well as a few stories from an ad agency career spanning both hemispheres which listeners will enjoy.