Chapters & Verses
272 Stafford Street Timaru.

TV personality, author & bon vivant Peta Mathias to visit Timaru.

To celebrate the publication of her new book “Can We Help It If We're Fabulous”, Peta will be at Sopheze on the Bay, Timaru on Monday 4th of August.

The function starts at 5:30 pm with drink and nibbles and then Peta will entertain the gathering in her own indomitable way.
Peta's latest book will be on sale at $35:00 which she will be happy to sign.
Here is the publisher's description of the book:

With ten topics relevant to all women - Fashion, Food, Relationships, Music, Travel, Beauty, Work, Sex, Happiness and, of course, Men - Peta's sagacious, sexy and occasionally scurrilous book will encourage and inspire readers to reinvent, spice up, embrace and celebrate the lives they have.
As well as recounting her own life lessons, Peta interviews a range of women - from psychologists to plastic surgeons, sex therapists to hairdressers, doctors to singers - and discovers what a woman needs to make her happy, idependent and successful. Inspirational, razor-witted and funny, Can We Help It if We're Fabulous is Peta Mathias at her wisest - and naughtiest.

Tickets are $20:00 each and proceeds will go to the South Canterbury Mammography Trust.
Tickets are available from Camerons, Chapters & Verses and Jennifer Mary.
The Zonta Club of Timaru, Penguin Books and Chapters & Verses are jointly presenting this promotion.

The Timaru visit is the opening of an extensive tour by Peta the rest of which looks like this:

CHRISTCHURCH
Date: Tuesday 5 August
Time: 7.30 pm
Location: Ng Café, 212 Madras St, Christchurch
Details: Speaking event, glass of wine on arrival
Tickets: $15. Available from Scorpio Bookshop, 79 Hereford St, Christchurch, Ph: (03) 3792882

NELSON
Date: Wednesday 6 August
Time: 5.30 pm
Location: HC Prestige, 153 Rutherford Street, Nelson
Details: Speaking event, glass of wine on arrival and nibbles.
Tickets: $20. Available from Paper Plus, Nelson, Richmond & Motueka, or phone Leanne P: 546 7074 or E: l.cummins@xtra.co.nz

WELLINGTON, LOWER HUTT
Date: Thursday 7 August
Time: 12 noon
Location: Hutt Golf Club, Military Rd, Lower Hutt
Details: Luncheon speaking event
Tickets: $65 (including copy of Can We Help It If We’re Fabulous?)
Available from Te Omanga Hospice. P: 5664535 or E: fundraising@teomanga.org.nz

MASTERTON
Date: Thursday 7 August
Time: 5.30-7.00 pm
Location: Tulloch Lodge Country Hotel, 290 High St, Masterton
Details: Speaking event, glass of wine on arrival & nibbles
Tickets: $15. Available from The Friends of St Matthews Collegiate School and Hedleys Bookshop. www.hedleys.co.nz

AUCKLAND (city)
Date: Friday 8 August
Time: 12.00–2.00pm
Location: Stamford Plaza, Albert St, City
Details: New Zealand Herald Dymocks Literary Lunch
In association with Dymocks and NZ Herald
Tickets: General Public $60.00, Table of 10 $550.00. Dymocks Booklover members $55.00, Table of 10 $500.00. Available from Dymocks.
P: 5208805; E: newmarket@dymocks.co.nz

AUCKLAND (North Shore)
Date: Thursday 14 August
Time: 7.30 pm
Location: Fairway Lodge, Argus Place, Glenfield
Details: Speaking event with bubbles, coffee and desserts
Tickets: $35. Available from North Shore Hospice
Call Kerry P: 479 7666 or Sue P: 486 6748; www.nshospice.co.nz (book online)