Thursday, October 08, 2015

Auckland Writers Festival presents Geraldine Brooks

7pm, on Tuesday 17 November
Maidment Theatre, The University of Auckland, 8 Alfred Street.
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March. Her other novels, Caleb’s Crossing and People of the Book, were New York Times best sellers, and her first novel, Year of Wonders remains an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages and currently optioned for a major motion picture.

She is also the author of the nonfiction works Nine Parts of DesireForeign Correspondence and The Idea of Home and worked for the Wall Street Journal where she covered crises in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.

Geraldine’s latest book The Secret Chord is a unique and vivid novel retelling the story of King David’s extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace.

Tickets are selling fast, so please book quickly and take advantage of our special Friends price of $15

Book tickets now via the Maidment website, click here or phone 09 308 2383. (A transaction fee may apply)

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