An international blockbuster writer is coming back to New Zealand.

Lee Child is returning to our shores for three shows this November.

He will first be in Auckland on November 22, before heading to Christchurch on the 23rd, and finally going to Dunedin on the 24th.

Programme director Rachael King for WORD Christchurch, which is hosting the author, says Lee Child's the absolute top of his game and the genre - and they can't wait to host him and show a city of book-lovers.

He is promoting his latest Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, which is released earlier that month.