THE BOOKLOVER CELEBRATES 10 YEARS

Popular booshop on Auckland's North Shore extends an invitation.

We are Celebrating our TENTH Birthday during October and appropraitely it is New Zealand Book Month. We have planned FOUR great events for our Booklovers.
Please contact us if you would like to be emailed an invitation to any or all of these events. All events will require RSVPs as our space is not huge and we want to ensure everyone’s comfort, there will be limit on attendees.

An evening with Alexa Johnston, who will discuss her new book A Second Helping: More from Ladies, a Plate.Wednesday 7th October @ 6.30pm
In response to the enthusiastic reception for her 2008 bestseller Ladies, a Plate, Alexa Johnston has gathered another tempting selection of traditional home-baking recipes. Like its predecessor, this beautiful book will be essential in every baker's kitchen and a source of continuing pleasure. Snippets of social history are once again included throughout as Alexa pays tribute to the women who contributed recipes to the hundreds of community cookbooks that were published over the past sixty years.

An evening with Jeremy Salmond, a principal in Salmond Reed Architects, and New Zealand's foremost authority on heritage architecture, who will discuss the magnificent new book Villa: From Heritage to Contemporary Living, co-authored with Jeremy Hansen and photographer Patrick Reynolds.Wednesday 14th October @ 6.30pm
Magnificently designed and crammed with photographs of everything from the original images of villas in the 1890s and fragments of glorious old wallpaper, from totally untouched interiors to the most innovative additions, this book is a must-have for villa dwellers and villa lovers.

An evening with local authors who have contributed to the wonderful new collection Way Back Then, Before We Were Ten: New Zealand Writers and Childhood, edited by Graeme Lay.Tuesday 20th October @ 6.30pm
In this anthology 26 distinguished New Zealand writers evoke memories of their early years, in fiction and memoir; their contributions reflect many of the personal and social changes which our society has undergone over the last 100 years.

An open Bookclub evening during which we will present some of the many new exciting October/November titles, both fiction and non-fiction, with the assistance of two of the publishers.Wednesday 28th October @ 6.30pm

Before these events in September we would like to invite you to join us for an author event at the Takapuna Boating Club.

An evening with HELEN BROWN

Next columnist and author of Cleo :How an uppity cat helped heal a family

6 pm Wednesday 23 September
Takapuna Boating Club
39 The Strand, Takapuna

Tickest $20.00* from iTicket
Ph 0508iTicket (484 253)
*plus booking/delivery fee
Proceeds going to Auckland SPCA
Bubbles and Nibbles will be provided
Books will be available for purchase

Helen Drummond & Tom Beran
The Booklover
Hurstmere House
128 Hurstmere Road
Takapuna Beach
Ph +64 9 489 8836 ; Fax +64 9 489 8815
www.thebooklover.co.nz

Footnote:

The Bookman extends his congratulations to The Booklover, a fine independent bookseller, on this auspicious occasion.