Non-stop Dan: He's just won the World Cup, but Dan Carter won't get a minute's rest this month

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 31: Dan Carter of the New Zealand All Blacks sprays champagne as he celebrates victory after the 2015 Rugby World Cup Final match between New Zealand and Australia at Twicke

Parades, world award and launch of biography on packed agenda.

Dan Carter, all class at Twickenham, has a busy month ahead. There's the small matter today of going up with Julian Savea for World Rugby Player of the Year at an award ceremony in London.

Then it's on a flight home on Wednesday for parades in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Carter will have barely caught up with wife Honor and their two children, friends and supporters when his new book, Dan Carter: My Story hits the shelves on November 14.

Prince Harry congratulates Dan Carter. Photo / Getty Images

Three days of interviews and book-signing sessions in Christchurch and Auckland is all the time Carter has before moving to Paris for a lucrative contract at Racing Metro.

Carter will vie with Savea, Australia's David Pocock and Michael Hooper, Wales' Alun Wyn Jones and Scotland's Greig Laidlaw for rugby player of the year. He won the award in 2005 and 2012.

Carter has been in stellar form at the Rugby World Cup, earning the man of the match award in his first Cup final and last appearance for the All Blacks.

In 112 matches, the kid from Southbridge on the Canterbury Plains has scored a world record 1598 tests points.

"Probably the finest player to have played this sometimes perplexing, often glorious game," Paul Hayward wrote in England's Daily Telegraph.

Honor Carter was back in New Zealand for yesterday's final. On October 22, she tweeted: "Your resilience over 12 years of international rugby is nothing but inspirational."

Soon after yesterday's final, Carter was on the telephone to Herald columnist and author Duncan Greive, discussing the match for the final chapter of the book.

Staff from Auckland-based Upstart Press were at work yesterday, scrambling to get it out on time.

Upstart Press director Kevin Chapman said it was a fairytale end for what promised to be a very big book with a minimum initial print run of 50,000 copies.

Mr Chapman said the book would show a different side of Carter, an introspective side of a man impacted by things like all the injuries he has had.

"They will get a new appreciation of how much of a battle it is to become the best first-five the world has seen.

"He talks about growing up, he talks about Honor and his marriage, the proposal and things like that.

"[But] he is intensely private. He will talk about some things but not others."

Dan's Diary

Book-signing sessions:

November 15
Various locations in Christchurch

November 16
Paper Plus
(details to be announced)

November 17
• 10am The Warehouse, WestCity Shopping Centre, Henderson

• 11am Whitcoulls, NorthWest Shopping Centre, Westgate

• 12.05pm The Warehouse, Don McKinnon Drive, Albany

• 1.10pm Whitcoulls, Little High St, central city

• 2.30pm Paper Plus, Broadway, Newmarket

• 3.50pm Whitcoulls, Town Centre Drive, Botany Downs

• 5.20pm The Warehouse, Sylvia Park, Mt Wellington