Monday, August 10, 2009



Join award-winning thriller writer Tom Rob Smith
and hear him discuss his books and writing.

Thursday 27 August, 6.30pm
Light refreshments served from 6pm
Takapuna Library, The Strand, Takapuna
$5 payable on entrance; $2 for Friends of the Library
bookings essential ph Helen 09 486 8469 or Helenw@shorelibraries.govt.nz
ABOUT TOM ROB SMITH
UK novelist Tom Rob Smith is a Cambridge graduate who works as a screenwriter. Child 44, his first novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for the best adventure/thriller novel in 2008. It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize in the same year.

Child 44 has now been translated into over 30 languages, including being recently sold into China, the first Communist country to buy the rights to the story. Over one million copies have sold worldwide, including a quarter of a million copies in Japan, after it was awarded the best criminal novel of 2008. Film rights have been sold to Ridley Scott/Fox 2000.

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