Wellington book launch invitation

VUP warmly invites you to the launch of The Red Queen by Gemma Bowker–Wright on Tuesday 8 July, 6pm–7.30pm at The Guest Room, Southern Cross Garden Bar 39 Abel Smith St, Te Aro Wellington. Damien Wilkins will launch the book. Copies will be available for purchase courtesy of Unity Books, p/b $30 About The Red Queen In her first collection of stories, Gemma Bowker-Wright leads us into the phases of transition and transformation in people’s lives: a dream job, a rare afternoon between son and father, a man losing his wife to Alzheimer’s, a first snow. Like the Red Queen of Through the Looking-Glass, many of these characters are running hard to stay in the same place, but moving ever forward. Their stories, which echo stories from evolution, ecology, and meteorology, form a deeply perceptive and captivating first book. Gemma Bowker-Wright was the winner of the 2010 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition and the 2011 BNZ Katherine Mansfield Competition for short fiction. The Red Queen is her first book.