Ten thousand books - many of them new - will be on sale at a Book Fair in Wellington this weekend to raise money for a library in Bougainville. The charity led by author Lloyd Jones, whose Mr Pip was set in Bougainville, is building a library for the devastated country - a place for books and storytelling, and a receptacle for culture.
Publishers, booksellers and authors have flocked to donate new books for the fair, along with donations of used books by the general public. There are table-loads of the most recent contemporary fiction, a range of non-fiction from gardening to sport to art to poetry, and children's books - many donated by Scholastic.
Organiser Pete Carter says, 'There are fine editions of books by Peter Carey, Dan Brown and Paul Theroux. The recent Kathleen Jones biography of Katherine Mansfield is on the tables too along with a complete set of Charles Dickens and some great looking books from Te Papa and Penguin. '
The Book Fair is on this weekend - Nov 6 and 7 from 10 am - 4 pm, Portrait Gallery, Shed 11, Wellington Waterfront.
Check out the website and the facebook page.
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