Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy is in New Zealand this month to promote her new book The Long Song

Monday March 22 – Auckland

Summer Season of International Women Writers
Time: 8pm
Location: Raye Freedman Theatre, Epsom Girls’ Grammar School, Cnr Silver Rod and Gillies Ave
RSVP: phone (09) 376 4399; email: books@womensbookshop.co.nz or secure website: www.womensbookshop.co.nz


Tuesday March 23 – Matakana

An Evening with Andrea Levy in conjunction with the Village Bookshop
Time: 7pm
Location: Paradiso Theatre, Matakana Cinemas
RSVP: Tickets $10, The Village Bookshop, (09) 423 0315
villagebookshop@paradise.net.nz

Wednesday March 24 – Wellington

An Evening with Andrea Levy in conjunction with Marsden Books
Time: 5.30pm
Location: Marsden Books, 159 Karori Rd, Karori, Wellington
RSVP: Entry free with food and wine served, RSVP essential to 04 4768066

Thursday March 25 – Christchurch

An Evening with Andrea Levy in conjunction with Plains FM
Time: 8pm
Location: Our City O-tautahi, Cnr Oxford Terrace and Worcester Boulevard
RSVP: Tickets $12 ($10 members) phone Helen, 021 158 6981

About the author:

In 1948 Andrea Levy’s father sailed from Jamaica to England on the Empire Windrush ship and her mother joined him soon after. Andrea was born in London in 1956, growing up black in what was still a very white England. This experience has given her a complex perspective on the country of her birth.
Andrea Levy did not begin writing until she was in her mid-30s. At that time there was little written about the black British experience in Britain. After attending writing workshops Levy began to write
the novels that she, as a young woman, had always wanted to read – entertaining novels that reflect the experiences of black Britons, that look closely and perceptively at Britain and its changing population and at the intimacies that bind British history with that of the Caribbean.

Andrea Levy is a Londoner. She not only lives and works in the city she loves but has used London as the setting in many of her novels. Her second novel Never Far from Nowhere was long listed for the Orange Prize. Small Island was the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Whitbread Novel Award, the Orange Best of the Best, and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize.

The Long Song
Andrea Levy
Headline,
February 2010 - $38.99RRP

For more information on the author, book or tour please contact Gemma Finlay – gemmaf@hachette.co.nz
09 478 1033.

Footnote:
Originally posted on this blog 2 February and reposted now as a reminder
The Bookman