Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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  HEAR JODI PICOULT IN HER

ONLY NZ APPEARANCE - NEXT MONDAY


On Monday 23 July 2012, the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival in association with Allen & Unwin and the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly is presenting the sole New Zealand performance by international best-selling author Jodi Picoult at Auckland’s Aotea Centre at 7pm.  She will be discussing her latest novel Lone Wolf, as well as a new work Between the Lines, co-authored with her teenage daughter Samantha van Leer.

THE AUTHORS:

JODI PICOULT, 44, is the bestselling author of eighteen novels including: Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992), Nineteen Minutes (2007), Change of Heart (2008), Handle With Care (2009), House Rules (2010), and Sing You Home (2011) — the last five of which debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list – and her newest novel, Lone Wolf. www.jodipicoult.com.au

SAMANTHA VAN LEER is a junior in high school. She conceived the idea for Between the Lines and pitched it to her mum, Jodi Picoult, who was in the middle of a book tour. In her spare time, Samantha can be found playing softball, doing contemporary dance, acting and singing in musicals, and cuddling her two dogs, Dudley and Oliver — for whom the prince in this fairy tale was named.
Monday 23 July 7pm
ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, The EDGE
$35 Standard

$20 Under 18 years of age

Book now on www.buytickets.co.nz (service fees apply)
 

 

NZ POST BOOK AWARDS WINNERS ‘IN CONVERSATION’
 WITH JENNIFER WARD-LEALAND

Free Public Event

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear New Zealand’s best writers come together to discuss their books, love of writing, new projects, inspirations and challenges and the books currently on their own ‘must-read’ lists.
Readers can hear the Book of the Year winner, Fiction, Poetry, Illustrated Non-fiction, General Non-fiction winners and the People’s Choice Award winner live in conversation with Jennifer Ward-Lealand. An audience question and answer session will follow, and copies of the authors’ award-winning books will be available for purchase and signing.
Visit booksellers.co.nz/awards for a list of the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards finalists.
The winners of our major literary awards for contemporary writing and illustration will be announced at a gala dinner ceremony on Wednesday 1 August.

Mark the date in your diary:
New Zealand Post Book Award-winning writers of 2012
will be speaking at a free author event. 

Thursday 2 August, 12.15pm- 1.45pm
Rendezvous Hotel (Room 1), 71 Mayoral Drive, Auckland

 

LADIES’ LITERA-TEA
FOOD FOR MIND AND BODY
 
A glorious abundance of new writing by New Zealand women has forced The Women’s Bookshop to run two Ladies’ Litera-Teas this year.

Spend a delicious Sunday afternoon indulging yourself!   At the traditional afternoon tea we serve lamingtons, Neenish tarts, asparagus rolls, cup cakes, savouries, melting moments and other divine delicacies. The authors sign books in between mouthfuls!

Sunday 19 August 1pm to 5.30pm at Raye Freedman Arts Centre, Epsom Girls Grammar

Authors appearing: Emily Perkins with her acclaimed new novel The Forrests; Bianca Zander with her stunning debut The Girl Below; Kim Evans whose Little and Friday cafes and book have become ‘foodie phenomenons’; Joanne Drayton with The Search for Anne Perry (the international crime writer who is Juliet Hulme of Christchurch matricide fame); Mary Edmond-Paul on Robin Hyde; Joan Druett with the brilliant story of Tupaia, Cook’s Polynesian navigator; Hannah McQueen on finance; Tina Grenville with A Life in Three Acts; and three authors from Victoria University Press in Wellington – poets Helen Heath and Lynn Davidson, and novelist Gigi Fenster with her brilliant debut The Intentions Book.

Tickets $55 (includes afternoon tea) from The Women’s Bookshop, 105 Ponsonby Road, 3764399     books@womensbookshop.co.nz      www.womensbookshop.co.nz
 
These events sell out - no door sales.
Visa & Mastercard bookings accepted by phone, email or website
$100 for TWO – Buy tickets for both events and save!
 
Sunday 4 November (same time, same venue)

Authors confirmed so far: Stephanie Johnson, Jacqueline Fahey, Elizabeth Lind from La Cigale (The French Market), poets Paula Green and Janet Charman; Lynda Hallinan getting Back to the Land; Doris De Pont from the Fashion Museum, garden designer Xanthe White, novelist Maxine Alterio from Dunedin and Fiona Farrell from Christchurch whose superb Broken Book is a finalist in the NZ Post Book Awards.

  
AN EVENING WITH
SIR ANDREW MOTION,
former UK POET LAUREATE

 
Three intellectual powerhouses, the Auckland Museum, The University of Auckland and the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, join together to present one of the world’s foremost poets in Auckland.  Sir Andrew Motion is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was the UK Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009 when he was knighted for his services to literature. In conversation with the University’s Emily Perkins, Andrew will bring his work to life. 
Wednesday 29 August 6:15 pm – 7:30 pm
The University of Auckland School of Music Theatre , 6 Symonds Street, Auckland

$20; $15 for University staff and alumni and Festival Patrons
For all bookings ph 09 306-7048 or go to aucklandmuseum.com.  Booking fee of $3 applies to each transaction
  


RANDOM HOUSE'S
BOOK OF THE MONTH

A young man leaves home as a deckhand on a Norwegian freighter, to travel the world. He returns to New Zealand changed almost beyond recognition. Along the way he meets nine people who influence his life and help make him the writer he becomes. James McNeish's Touchstones has a cast of characters who include 'the Mother Courage of the English theatre', an anti-Mafia reformer in Sicily, a Kanak revolutionary who is assassinated, a rejected cousin and 'Mr Punch in naval uniform', the New Zealand poet Denis Glover. All are larger than life. Some of them, like the author's mysterious Maori aunt, are good enough to bottle. This book is witty, poignant and in the words of its editor, Emma Neale, 'rich in astonishing anecdote'. It is at once a self-portrait, a hymn to a vanishing New Zealand, and the first time James McNeish has written about himself.

Click here to read a free extract from Touchstones.
 

CREATIVE HUB WRITING COURSES
 
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Don’t deny your desire to write any more; enrol in one of these quality writing courses today: Introduction to Creative Writing (July 26); Fiction Writing (September 27); The Art and Craft of Memoir (October 8); Travel Writing and Photography Course (October 9).

SPECIAL OFFER: Go in the draw to win $300 book vouchers from Unity Books in Auckland by enrolling in one of The Creative Hub’s courses in September or October.

For full details please visit
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