NZ Bookshop Day at the Women's Bookshop!

CELEBRATE NEW ZEALAND BOOKSHOP DAY - Saturday 31 October 2015 Prizes, personalities & parties in the bookshop!  An amazing line-up of wonderful people will sit reading in our bookshop window all day on Saturday 31 October! 10am Michele A’Court (comedian & author) 10.30 Theresa Gattung (businesswoman, author & philanthropist) & Pip Greenwood (leading corporate lawyer) 11am Jacinda Ardern (MP & member of Labour Shadow Cabinet) 11.30 Alison Mau (broadcaster, journalist & author) 12pm Bianca Zander (novelist) & Jaquie Brown (TV presenter & author) 12.30 Amanda Billing (actress, star of ATC’s Lysistrata) 1pm Dr. Siouxsie Wiles (microbiologist & Head of the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at Auckland University) with her daughter Eve 1.30 Kate De Goldi (novelist, reviewer & children’s book advocate) 2pm Sue Orr (novelist, short story writer & reviewer) & Paula Green (poet, reviewer & creator of popular blogs NZ Poetry Box & NZ Poetry Shelf) 2.30 Anne Kennedy (award-winning poet & novelist) 3pm Wendyl Nissen & Paul Little (journalists, authors, publishers, & promotors of healthy products) 3.30 Stephanie Johnson (award-winning novelist & reviewer) 4pm Kim Evans (baker extraordinaire who has recently opened a Little & Friday down Douglas St, 2 minutes from the bookshop!) 4.30 Charlotte Grimshaw (award-winning novelist & reviewer)

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Champagne Party at 5pm! Come back to the shop at 5pm for a glass of champagne & the announcement of the 50/50 WOMEN WRITERS SURVEY RESULTS, along with the FIVE winners of the top 50 books. All welcome! Colouring Competition Be in to win a book prize pack & $500 Booksellers Tokens! Pick up a free colouring sheet from us (or download it from www.booksellers.co.nz) & bring it back completed to the bookshop by 5pm on NZ Bookshop Day (Sat 31 Oct). Our winner will receive a book prize pack & will go forward to the National Competition ($500 tokens) judged by Jo Pearson, author/illustrator of All Good: A New Zealand Colouring Book.

An Evening with Geraldine Brooks Presented by the Auckland Writers Festival & Hachette Publishers, the wonderful Geraldine Brooks will speak about her brand new historical novel The Secret Chord.Tuesday 17 November 7pm, Maidment TheatreBookings: maidment.auckland.ac.nz

See you on Saturday 31 October – come & support your local independent bookshop! Carole, Tanya, Patricia, Andrea & Zoe

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