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Lloyd Jones is also a
finalist in the general non-fiction category for his beautifully
written memoir of his family, The
History of
Silence, inspired by his visits to post-quake
Christchurch. No stranger to awards, his novel Mister Pip
won Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Montana Medal for fiction. It
was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Both Rebecca
Macfie and Lloyd Jones appear on the panel Tough Stuff
along with Gaylene Preston, director of Hope & Wire, to discuss
telling stories about difficult subjects. Rebecca also joins the
discussion on the Christchurch rebuild, Red Zones,
Green Frames and Blueprints.
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Acclaimed
Canterbury author Charlotte Randall is a finalist in the fiction
section with her novel The
Bright Side of My Condition, which follows the fortunes
of a group of shipwrecked convicts on the unforgivingly rugged Snares
Islands. Charlotte is the author of seven novels and lives on Banks
Peninsula. She appears in the session Island
Lives with Tina Makereti.
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Eleanor Catton is —perhaps unsurprisingly, given her Man Booker win—
a finalist in the fiction category for her brilliant and
internationally acclaimed novel of the West Coast, The Luminaries.
Her session in the Transitional Cathedral,The
Luminary, is selling fast — don’t miss out.
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The winners
will be announced on 27 August.
Will any of
our guests arrive clutching awards? We hope so!
For a full
list of finalists in the 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards, go here.
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