BOOKS

Dear Reader

Please find here a catalogue of books that have been written by Phillip Kundeni Chidavaenzi. Should you need a copy, you can get hold of him on newheritage2016@gmail.com or by phone on +263 772952851. Enjoy sneak previews into the books.

THE HAUNTED TRAIL

Published by Longman Zimbabwe in 2006, The Haunted Trail tells the rags-to-riches story of a top banker, Michael Denga, who rises from a life of poverty and deprivation to remarkable success. When a young, beautiful chartered accountant, Chiedza Jacha, enters into his life, the circle looks complete and the reader can only wish the couple well. But success has its own random distribution of cards.  Michael, whose haunted past during which he was raised by his single mother, a shebeen queen who eventually succumbs to HIV, engages in multiple sexual relationships. In the end he infects his fiancée, breaks off the engagement and subsequently commits suicide as the police close in on him after it emerges that his Pentagon Bank was involved in serious breaches of the law…

THE TIES THAT BIND

The Ties that Bind, published by New Heritage Press in 2015, is the sequel to The Haunted Trail. Here we are introduced to Lincoln Mafusa, a top notch lawyer and work colleague of Jackie’s best friend, Chiedza.  Lincoln, who is unaware of Chiedza’s HIV positive status, is drawn to the younger woman but worries that they may never be able to have a relationship because of the skeletons from his own past. As the two increasingly get drawn to one another, Chiedza falls for Lincoln but is also concerned that because of her status, there was no possibility of her relationship with Lincoln ever going beyond friendship. It is a game of high stakes where this relationship must be consummated but, at the same time, too many hurdles that must be jumped over…

THE GOSPEL OF GRACE 

The Gospel of Grace (From the Old to the New Testament) was published in 2016 by New Heritage Press. This is Chidavaenzi’s first published spiritual inspiration books and explores the relationship between the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible.  The book is meant to draw New Testament Christian believers from the legalistic nature of the Old Covenant and the condemnation of the law so they can enjoy their inheritance under the New Testament dispensation of grace.

FORTHCOMING TITLES

THE LATTER RAIN

The Latter Rain, set to be published in 2016, tells the gripping story of two teenagers who flee their Mt. Darwin village to Harare in search of a better life. Isabel runs away from the wrath of a vindictive step mother while her friend, Dorothy, follows two years later in a breath-taking escape from an arranged marriage to a rich and powerful polygamous sect leader who has helped her family with food at the height of a devastating famine.  The two girls, however, quickly realise that Harare’s streets are not paved with gold and they have to make serious compromises to survive. They make different life choices and while one ends up dead ten years later, the other pursues a life of faith. But she has a herculean task of trying to mend broken relations with a family that she has deeply wounded. But this, too, is a story of how broken ties are mended, human depravity confronted by grace and hope restored even as drought paves way for the rain, when the Holy Spirit seizes a man’s life.

     

WALKING IN THE SPIRIT 

Scripture demonstrates that God has always desired to reveal Himself to man throughout the ages, and despite man’s rebellious streak, God has continued to pursue man. The cross of Calvary was the climax of that pursuit, in which the curtain of the Holy of Holies was torn right through the middle, granting all men access to the Father through Jesus Christ. When we come to Christ after accepting the gospel, it is often not easy navigating our way through in this new Kingdom which has its own unique system of operation. In this book, Pastor Phillip Kundeni Chidavaenzi shares his wealth of knowledge and wisdom in the fundamental principles of the Christian faith. In this book, the lenses of Scripture are used to address some clearly heretical teachings that have invaded the body of Christ. Here is a confrontation with the spirit of error which has planted deep-seated spiritual strongholds in the Church. Here you will find revelations, divine insights, anecdotal stories and the author’s personal experiences in his walk with the Lord over the last 10 years and how his journey of faith punctures many of the myths and cleverly devised fables wrapped up as the gospel that are spreading all over the globe today. The book is set for official release in 2017.

 

CHASING THE WIND

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SWORD IN THE WILDERNESS 

Phillip Kundeni Chidavaenzi takes us through Zimbabwe’s tortured political and socio-economic landscape marked by strife and hardship as the country of his birth plunges into its worst political and economic crises. It is a haunting, evocative story about a nation travailing in pain, capturing it in all its colour, smells, strife and heartbreak of ordinary a people under siege from political and economic forces bigger than them. It chronicles the story of Jason Marasha, who is forced to return to Zimbabwe after losing his job in South Africa and witnessing his best friend set ablaze during a xenophobic attack. Back home in Zimbabwe, the memories of the unprovoked cruelty and disregard for life that characterised the attacks. Upon his return home, he is shocked to discover that his fiancée, Fadzai, has been having an illicit affair with a prominent physician in the city, himself haunted by a troubled past, and hoping to find lasting love and comfort after meeting Fadzai. This triggers a series of events that leave them both stranded beyond the possibility of reunion, particularly after Fadzai discovers a shocking revelation. Although the story is set in troubled times, it is told in fine, almost elegant prose and flows smoothly to its climax as Jason realises that the terror outside as he battles to make his life work in his home country is bigger than the terror outside. The book, which is yet to be completed, is likely to be released in 2018.