Events at Takapuna Library and North Shore Libraries Foundation Event

1. Words Chosen Carefully

Cape Catley and The Friends fo Takapuna Library invite you to join Graham Beattie
To celebrate the launch of

Words Chosen Carefully -
New Zealand Writers in Discussion

An essential guide to our literary treasures.

Fifteen outstanding NZ writers talk openly and freely with fifteen excellent interviewers on how and why they write and how they draw on their own lives to transform what they see, hear and sense. The discussions in Words Chosen Carefully examine the place of land, culture, belonging, society, family and art in their work. There are insights on the routines that help them create and how characters are developed.

With an introduction by its editor, Siobhan Harvey,(pic right), and photographs by Liz March, Words Chosen Carefully is the first book of its kind published in New Zealand in nearly two decades.

Monday, 20 September 2010, Takapuna Library, The Strand, Takapuna.
Refreshments from 6pm, Author Talk from 6.30pm.

For catering purposes, please RSVP to Helen Woodhouse, ph. 486 8469, email helenw@shorelibraries.govt.nz


2. Wild New Zealand: From The Road
By Gordon Ell

6.00 – 7.30 pm, Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Takapuna Library, The Strand, Takapuna

RSVP to Helen Woodhouse, ph 486 8469 or helenw@shorelibraries.govt.nz;
Or reception@randomhouse.co.nz


3. The Friends of Takapuna Library, author David Verran and Random House, invite you to an occasion to celebrate the recent publication of
The North Shore: An Illustrated History by David Verran

Author pic - Brent Phibbs
Thursday, 30 September 2010, at Takapuna Library, The Strand, Takapuna
12 noon Light refreshments served
12.15 Talk by David Verran

Copies of the book will be available for sale courtesy of Paper Plus, Takapuna, and for signing by the author.

$2 entry fee, Friends of the Library free
RSVP to Helen Woodhouse, 486 8469 or helenw@shorelibraries.govt.nz


4. North Shore Libraries Foundation presents
An Evening with Charlaine Harris

Hear Charlain talk about her Sookie Stackhouse Books, and the phenomenon that is true blood.
7pm (doors open 6pm), Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Westlake Boys High School Auditorium
30 Forrest Hill Road, Westlake
Tickets $15 from Event Finder, www.eventfinder.co.nz; or Auckland Paper Plus stores