Bestsellers Breaking Barriers
Monty Soutar and Michael Bennett, with Whiti Hereaka
One historical blockbuster, one gripping crime thriller. Two bestselling first novels from Māori writers who place their culture front and centre in their work. Dr Monty Soutar ONZM (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa, Ngā Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Kahungunu) and Michael Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue) talk with award-winning author Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui and Pākehā) about Kāwai: For Such a Time As This and Better the Blood and the importance of adding new Māori voices to our literary canon.
Friday 27 Oct 6pm
There’s a Cure for This
Emma Espiner, with Noelle McCarthy
“I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose.” Award- winning writer Dr Emma Espiner (Ngāti Tukorehe, Ngāti Porou) talks with Ockham NZ Book Award Winner Noelle McCarthy about her candid and beautiful debut memoir.
Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre
Early bird: $5 | General: $10
Friday 27 Oct 8pm
Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre
Early bird: $5 | General: $10
Beautiful Pages
Deborah Coddington and Jane Ussher, with Lizzie Russell
What does it take to design the kind of books we display proudly on our coffee tables?
Experts Deborah Coddington (The New Zealand Horse) and Jane Ussher (Rooms) talk with Lizzie Russell about creating that perfect combination of words and pictures.
Nourished Inside and Out
Pip Cameron and Helen Lehndorf, with Nigel Olsen
Pip Cameron lives on a remote high country farm and is committed to eating seasonally and reducing waste. Poet and author, Helen Lehndorf, has a lifelong love of feeding heart and home through foraging. They talk with cookbook fanatic, Nigel Olsen, about how food can nourish us and our environment.
New Voices
Josie Shapiro, Airana Ngarewa and Nafanua Kersel, with Whiti Hereaka
Saturday 28 Oct 12pm
Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre
Early bird: $5 | General: $10
Saturday 28 Oct 10am
Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre
Early bird: $5 | General: $10
Wild Life
Nicola Toki, with Jesse Mulligan
How do we ignite a care for nature that will stay alight all our lives? Nicola Toki, CEO of Forest and Bird and champion of RNZ’s Critter of the Week talks with Jesse Mulligan about ways we can engage with nature at any age, for a greater understanding and love of our wild surroundings.
Who are the new writers to watch? Josie Shapiro won the inaugural Allen and Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize for her debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts, Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui) was the big winner in the 2022 Ronald Hugh Morrieson awards, and Nafanua Kersel (Faleālupo, Malaelā, Mosula, Satufia, Tuaefu) won the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry. All three are in conversation with Whiti Hereaka (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Tūhourangi,
Rewriting History
Monty Soutar and Cristina Sanders, with Catherine Robertson
Our love of historical novels never seems to dim and the best give us new insight about how our past has shaped our present. Ockham NZ Book Award short- listed authors, Dr Monty Soutar (Kāwai: For Such a Time As This and Cristina Sanders (Mrs Jewell and the Wreck of the General Grant) talk with Catherine Robertson about the importance of presenting the stories of our history to modern readers.
Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui and Pākehā) 2022 winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Award for Fiction at the Ockham NZ Book Awards.
Saturday 28 Oct, 4pm
Flaxmere Library
Entry by Koha. Please book through Eventfinda to reserve a seat (limited seats).
Saturday 28 Oct 2pm
Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre
Early bird: $5 | General: $10
Saturday 28 Oct 6pm
Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre
Early bird: $5 | General: $10
Plants as Portals Writing Workshop
Helen Lehndorf
There are many approaches to writing the plant world. In this workshop, led by poet, author and forager, Helen Lehndorf, you’ll look at poems which use these different approaches and have a go at each one, (metaphorically) weaving some favourite plants into your words. Places limited to 20, so get in quick.
