Simon Winchester - Earthquake Fundraisers

We are pleased to announce that Simon Winchester, the great master of narrative non-fiction, will be in-store at Unity Auckland and Unity Wellington this Friday.

Simon Winchester will be at Unity Auckland from 12.30-1.30pm and Unity Wellington from 6.00pm on Friday 10 September. New Zealand Book Council Chief Executive Noel Murphy is pleased to be introducing Simon at the Wellington event. A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to The Press Christchurch Writers Festival to help cover some of the costs incurred due to its cancellation because of the Canterbury earthquake.

Simon Winchester's new book, Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories, tells the epic life story of the Atlantic Ocean. At the core of the book is the story of mankind’s complex relationship with this immense sea, which stretches for 9,000 miles from pole to pole. The Atlantic has profoundly influenced the lives of those who have lived along its shores, from hard-scrabble pioneers in windswept locations such as the Aran Islands and Newfoundland, to the inhabitants of the great port cities of Lisbon, Rio, London and New York.