Saturday 29 October is NZ Bookshop Day.
To celebrate, The Women’s Bookshop in Ponsonby Road presents a bold bunch of creative women ‘doing their thing’ in the shop window throughout the day - textile art, perfume-making, yoga and more.
Steampunk duo Baroness Ditzy von
Karbon and Lady Lavinia Laudanum-Swoon will
have garments & gadgets & corsets for people to try on between 12noon
and 1pm.
Marilyn Jessen will be
there, author of Her Space: She Sheds, Back Rooms
& Kitchen Tables, the book in which many of these women
appear.
Customers can write a ‘love
letter’ to the bookshop and WIN $500 of Book Tokens. Their
postcard starting ‘I love my bookshop because . . .’ will be pinned on the shop
noticeboard and then sent off to Wellington at the end of the day.
There will also be Spectacular
Specials available on the day – authors you’ve been meaning to read,
including Ann Patchett’s Bel Canto, Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebook
and Michael King’s Penguin History of New Zealand – plus two terrific
tales for ten-year-olds: Ruby Redford Look into My Eyes by Lauren
Child and Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee.
It will be a fun day,
celebrating the joy of reading and the importance of local independent
bookshops.
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