We hope you’ve all had a chance to peruse our programme, which is
available at libraries, cafes and other outlets throughout
Christchurch, or online at wordchristchurch.co.nz.
We have been overwhelmed by the positive response: Christchurch is
ready for us!
Here’s a taste of what’s to come: three wonderful
international novelists who we are proud to be bringing to New Zealand.
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NOVIOLET
BULAWAYO
As a recent interviewer noted, to read NoViolet Bulawayo’s
extraordinary and unforgettable novel, We Need New Names, ‘is to be
plunked down in Paradise, a shantytown in Zimbabwe – running
alongside 10-year-old Darling and her friends, stealing guavas, arms
outstretched to meet the wind’.
The account of Darling’s move to a new life in America has affected
readers worldwide, and won the author a place on the 2013 Man Booker
Prize shortlist.
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DIANE
SETTERFIELD
Diane Setterfield’s smash hit novel, The Thirteenth Tale, was
published in 38 countries worldwide and has sold more than three
million copies. Her second novel, Bellman
& Black, layers themes of time, memory and loss.
Diane is ‘a reader first, a writer second.’
The Thirteenth
Tale has recently been made into a BBC tele-movie
starring Vanessa Redgrave and Olivia Coleman.
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MEG WOLITZER
Fantastic New York author Meg Wolitzer’s ninth novel, The Interestings,
which follows six friends from adolescence through to middle age, has
been widely praised as ‘marvellously inventive’ and ‘enormously
entertaining’, and compared to the work of Jonathan Franzen and
Jeffrey Eugenides.
Her next novel is Belzhar,
a Young Adult novel based on Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar,
and there are only a few places left on her fiction writing workshop,
so get in quick!
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SPREAD THE WORD - AUGUST 27-31 2014
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Coming to
Christchurch for the festival?
Rydges Hotel
is offering a special room rate of $149 for stays between 28 - 31
August. To access this visit Rydges
Latimer, click 'Make a Booking' enter the
details and in the Corporate ID field enter : PRESSWEB and click 'Book
Now'.
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