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 Soldiers.

Set in the US at the time of the disastrous battle at Little Bighorn, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers pieces together the memories of Captain Frederick Benteen. Given as fragmentary recollections, Falconer's novel is less concerned with creating a decisive history and more with reflecting the subjective experience of war.
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 Soldiers.

Set in the US at the time of the disastrous battle at Little Bighorn, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers pieces together the memories of Captain Frederick Benteen. Given as fragmentary recollections, Falconer's novel is less concerned with creating a decisive history and more with reflecting the subjective experience of war.
Lauded as 'the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on Australian literature', Delia Falconer has won numerous prizes and fellowships for both her fiction and non-fiction and her work as a literary critic has been picked up by international journals. Her debut novel, The Service of Clouds, was that thing rarely seen in publishing - a bestselling literary work.

The Book Council has brought Delia Falconer to New Zealand as part of their International Writers' Exchange programme and she will also be appearing at the Going West Books and Writers Festival in Auckland.

Delia Falconer will be in conversation with Lydia Wevers at Crank Urban Venue, Johnstone St on Monday 12 September 2005, 12.30pm-1.30pm.

Ticket prices for this event are $8 Book Council members, $10 students/unwaged and $12 non-members.
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For more information contact:
Jess Ridout
New Zealand Book Council
Phone 04 499 1569
Email events@bookcouncil.org.nz
www.bookcouncil.org.nz