New Zealand Book Council Brings Acclaimed Australian Novelist to Wellington
The bestselling author of The Service of Clouds, Delia Falconer, will be in Wellington on 12 September 2005 for a New Zealand Book Council event to discuss her new novel, The Lost Thoughts of…
Renowned Philosopher in Auckland to Contemplate the Reinvention of the World
John Ralston Saul, the internationally-renowned philosopher, novelist and author writes in his latest book, The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World, that through the 80s and 90s…
3 Major Literary Events in July
THREE MAJOR BOOK EVENTS The New Zealand Book Council has three major literary events in store for book lovers in the last week of July.
Just who do we think we are?
JUST WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE? Join Russell Brown, Jim Traue and Gemma Gracewood as they discuss what it means to be a New Zealander. The evening event includes a screening of former Prime Minister…
Pop, Look & Listen - music, wine & astronomy...
Pop, Look & Listen Join the New Zealand Book Council as we present Nick Bollinger, John Saker and Richard Hall in an evening of music, wine and astronomy. Rock journalist Nick Bollinger, wine…
Sex, Salt and Psychoanalysis
Join the New Zealand Book Council as we host a series of events in Wellington featuring visiting international writers in conversation with some of the city's most interesting personalities. The…
Words on Wheels 2005
No Town too Small to be WOWed Words on Wheels visits a different area of rural New Zealand each year on a six year cycle. In 1999 it was the deep south, in 1998, the East Cape.... This year WOW sets…
A European Affair
The New Zealand Book Council invites you to join us on the evening of Tuesday 9th November, 6pm at the Hutton Theatre, Otago Musuem. The New Zealand Book Council, the Goethe Insitut Inter Nationes…
DBC 'Dirty But Clean' Pierre - Booker Prize Winner 2003 comes to Wellington
Winner of the Main Booker Prize for Fiction 2003, DBC Pierre set the literary world alight with his first novel Vernon God Little, a visceral account of a young man's encounter with murder,…
Jenny Pattrick's event in Lower Hutt
In 2003, Jenny Pattrick's first novel The Denniston Rose stormed onto the best selling list, followed quickly by its sequel Heart of Coal.
Alain De Botton
World reknowned philosopher Alain de Botton presents a fascinating and convincing case for looking at happiness, travel, love and now status anxiety in a refreshing new way. He investigates the roots…
Lloyd Jones
The NZ Book Council is hosting an event with Lloyd Jones where he will discuss his award-winning work and introduce his new novel Paint your Wife. Lloyd Jones simultaneously challenges realism,…