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Friday 17th May
Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
From the grand master of the historical novel comes an epic portrait of the City of Light. Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd, who has enchanted readers with his sweeping, multigenerational...
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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION, LITERARY INTEREST
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
The relationship between language and identity is central to the work of Italian prizewinning novelist, linguist and translator Diego Marani , an employee of the European Commission and the inventor of the mock...
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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Father and daughter CK Stead and Charlotte Grimshaw share a talent for fiction and a keen interest in contemporary life. Each has published a novel which draws on the worlds of money and politics and the milieu of...
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Saturday 18th May
Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Anita Desai’s latest work The Artist of Disappearance is a set of three novellas which explores the relationship between people, art and the contemporary world. Considered by many to be India’s...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
One of England’s most loved poets, as well as an accomplished memoirist, short story and fiction writer, Jackie Kay brings to her writing a delight in the real and the imagined, and an engagement with questions...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
In Shehan Karunatilaka’s novel Chinaman, the mysterious disappearance of Sri Lankan spin bowler extraordinaire Pradeep S Mathew preoccupies the narrator, a retired sportswriter. It’s a funny and...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Award-winning author of seven novels and a short story collection, Patrick Ness talks to Kate De Goldi about his new adult novel The Crane Wife , a magical story of love and redemption and another of Ness’s...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Spain’s mega-selling contemporary writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon is an accomplished blender of high and low literature. Beginning with Shadow of the Wind he has written a cycle of novels set in Barcelona and in...
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 04:45 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Novelists Eleanor Catton , Karen Healey , Lawrence Patchett and Scarlett Thomas read work that plays with and manipulates time, introduced by Renee Liang .
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Date: Saturday 18th May 2013
Time: 07:15 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FICTION, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $35 EARLYBIRD $40 STANDARD
Whitbread-winning Behind The Scenes at the Museum won Kate Atkinson legions of fans. Since then she’s beguiled the world with a raft of novels including Case Histories and When Will There Be Good News , the...
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Sunday 19th May
Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Big ideas and deft storytelling characterise the prose of Scarlett Thomas. As well as eight novels, including the Orange longlisted The End of Mr Y , Thomas has produced a guide to creative writing ( Monkeys...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FARAWAY LANDS, FICTION
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
From the grand master of the historical novel comes an epic portrait of the City of Light. Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd , who has enchanted readers with his sweeping, multigenerational...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FREE EVENTS, FICTION
Price: FREE
Mention the S&M-themed 50 Shades of Grey in company and many judgements will be passed - literary merit, bad soft porn, feminist empowerment, marketing genius - and on it will go. Whichever side of whatever...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 04:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FICTION, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Writers Kate Atkinson, Hamish Clayton, Charlotte Grimshaw and Tania Moir read selections from their work that reference the repeating of history, introduced by Peter Wells.
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