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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: 02:30 p.m. - 03:30 p.m.
Venue: LIMELIGHT ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FREE EVENTS
Price: FREE
Writers Diana Bridge , Anita Desai , Sharad Paul and John Sinclair read work that evokes the East, introduced by Paula Morris .
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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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Date: Friday 17th May 2013
Time: 07:00 p.m. - 08:15 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS, SPECIAL EVENTS, WORLD AT WAR
Price: $35 EARLYBIRD; $40 STANDARD
Writer and raconteur William Dalrymple returns with his latest work of history, Return of a King , a comprehensive and compelling account of the British invasion of Afghanistan in 1839, launched by one Lord...
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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: 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: 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: 05:30 p.m. - 06:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, LIFE'S EASY PLEASURES, WORLD AT WAR
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
William Dalrymple’s travel writing has charmed legions of fans and opened up the world of India, in particular, to a broader audience. Share an hour with William Dalrymple as he reads and talks of the...
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Sunday 19th May
Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
Russian journalist Masha Gessen’s acclaimed biography of Vladimir Putin has been called courageous and chilling. The Man Without A Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is a detailed and incisive look at...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
For the past two years, in his job as New Zealand’s poet laureate, Ian Wedde has championed the role of poetry in public life, something he has cared deeply about since hearing Middle Eastern poets...
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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: 01:00 p.m. - 02:00 p.m.
Venue: UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: FARAWAY LANDS, FREE EVENTS, NON-FICTION, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
Price: FREE
Following in the footsteps of the famed English travel writer H V Morton, freelance journalist and Travcom Travel Book of the Year award winner for God of the Stones , Peter Riordan journeys through the Middle East,...
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Date: Sunday 19th May 2013
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 06:45 p.m.
Venue: ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
Category: BOOKS WE LOVE, FARAWAY LANDS, POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD, SPECIAL EVENTS
Price: $20 EARLYBIRD $25 STANDARD
In 1973 an emerging writer by the name of Albert Wendt delivered his first novel. Sons For The Return Home was groundbreaking, exploring love, freedom and racism in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was made into a film and...
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