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UPCOMING EVENTS
A SUMMER SEASON OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN WRITERS
All 6 events at The Raye Freedman Theatre, Epsom Girls Grammar School
MARINA LEWYCKA (A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, We Are All Made of Glue)- Tuesday 23 February, 8pm
SARAH DUNANT (The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, Sacred Hearts) - Friday 26 February, 8pm
XINRAN (The Good Women of China, Sky Burial, Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother) - Tuesday 2 March, 8pm
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA (The Historian, The Swan Thieves) - Tuesday 9 March, 8pm
SARAH WATERS (Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith, The Little Stranger) - Thursday 11 March, 8pm NB: THIS DATE HAS CHANGED FROM 16th!!
ANDREA LEVEY (Small Island, The Long Song) - Monday 22 March, 8pm
Tickets $15 each, or CONCESSION: Choose 4 or more authors & get one event FREE.
REVIEWS ON EASYMIX
Carole reviews a book on Radio EasyMix every Wednesday at 8.20 am (98.2 FM)
Wednesday 3 February - The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, author of The Historian, who is one of our International Summer Season guests. A fascinating exploration of obsession & of art, both modern & impressionist, with an intriguing mystery.
Wednesday 27 January - Consolation, the French best-seller from Anna Gavalda. Darker than Hunting & Gathering, an unusual story of 1 man, 2 remarkable women & an unforgettable transvestite. Quirky characters; 2nd half particularly engaging.
Wednesday 20 January 2010 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo & The Girl Who Played with Fire, books 1 & 2 of Steig Larsson's brilliant trilogy that has taken the world br storm! Sophisticated, intelligent, highly political crime fiction. Un-put-downable!
Wednesday 16 December - Wolf Hall, the stunning Man Booker Prize winner from Hilary Mantel. Thomas Cromwell leaps off the page of this brilliant historical novel set in the time of Henry V111.
Wednesday 9 December - The Disappeared. Kim Echlin's spare, haunting love story set against the killing fields of Cambodia, captures both personal pain & the agony of a whole nation.
Wednesday 2 December - Good to a Fault, Commonwealth Prize-winning novel from Canadian Marina Endicott, in which Clara takes care of, & becomes deeply attached to, the 3 children who were in the other car in a smash with Clara's car. Caring & involving.
Wednesday 18 November - Labour Day, a moving & engrossing novel from American Joyce Maynard, about a 13 year old boy, his depressed mother, & the escaped prisoner who hides with them one Labour Weekend. Beautifully done!
Wednesday 11 November - An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay. A profoundly beautiful novel about a woman painter that won the Orange Prize for New Writers this year - written as though it is the biography of a real woman. Superb!
Wednesday 4 November - Her Fearful Symmetry. Audrey Niffennegger's new novel (author of The Time Traveller's Wife) is full of wonderful quirky chararcters - mirror-image identical twins, a severe OCD sufferer, ghosts, & Highgate Cemetery. Delightful but you really have to suspend your disbelief!
Wednesday 28 October - A Gate at the Stairs, a sophisticated novel from Lorrie Moore, regarded as America's greatest short story writer. University student Tassie becomes nanny to a gorgeous adopted African-American toddler. Witty, pun-filled, verbally clever but life is bleak & tragic in post 9/11 USA.
Wednesday 21 October - Aunt Concertina & Her Niece Evalina by poet Paula Green & artist Michael Hight. An succulently gorgeous large-format picture book for adults & children alike. A junk-shop kite takes Concertina & Evalina to fabulous places (Everest, Sahara, Amazonian rainforest - & finally home) in words & pictures that are inspirational.
Wednesday 14 October - Small Wars, the second novel from Sadie Jones, author of the prize-winning OUTCAST. With British troups defending Cyprus in the 1950s, this is a fascinating exploration of honour, duty, & personal integrity. Unexpected twists.
Wednesday 7 October - Her Life's Work: Conversations with Five NZ Women by Deborah Shephard. Brilliant feminist scholarship & inspiring discussions with Merimeri Penfold, Anne Salmond, Gaylene Preston, Jacqueline Fahey & Margaret Mahy. Fabulous!
Wednesday 30 September - The Knife of Never letting Go, an extraordinary Young Adult novel, by Patrick Ness, also great for adults. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where the women have been wiped out & the men can all hear each other's thoughts. Totally gripping. It ends with a cliff-hanger, so I'll have to read the sequel The Ask & The Answer.
Wednesday 16 September - Noah's Compass, a gently amusing new novel from Anne Tyler. 61-year-old Noah has lost his job & must,at last, face up to some realities in his life.
Wednesday 9/9/09 - Remarkable Creatures, a fascinating new novel from Tracy Chevalier (author of Girl with a Pearl Earing) about Mary Anning's discovery of fossilized dinosaurs in the cliffs of Lyme Regis. Brilliant exploration of class issues, attitudes to women, & science versus religion. Extremely enjoyable.
Wednesday 2 September - Blonde Roots, a clever, biting, witty satire by Bernadine Evaristo. The slave trade is turned on its head - whytes are the slaves & blaks are the masters. It jolts you into a new awareness of cultural prejudices. Brilliant!
Wednesday 26 August - Pink, a delightful, often funny, young adult novel set in Melbourne, by Lili Wilkinson. Ava is brainy (which is not cool) & unsure of her sexual identity. The stage crew at her new school help her get sorted!
Wednesday 19 August - The Little Giant of Aberdeen County, a fresh & funny novel by Tiffany Baker. Told by a gargantuan narrator who is utterly charming, this is quirky, heartrending & uplifting.
Wednesday 12 August - How to Paint a Dead Man, the brilliant new novel from Sarah Hall, author of The Carhullan Army. Told in 4 distinct voices, it is literary, beautifully written, & in the running for this year's Booker Prize.
Wednesday 5 August - The White Women on the Green Bicycle, a passionate, political novel by Monique Roffey, set in Trinidad over 50 years. George & Sabine's life becomes entangled with the island's colonial past. Fascinating & engrossing.
Wednesday 29 July - Baking Cakes in Kigali - a total delight of a novel set in Riwanda. Angel is a menopausal grandmother who has a joyously full mixing bowl! Funny.
Wednesday 23 July - Butterscotch by Lyn Loates. A dark novel about murder, abuse & paedophilia, based on the 1954 Parker & Hulme 'moider' in Christchurch. Disturbing.
Wednesday 8 July - Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant's brilliant new novel set entirely in an Italian convent in 1570. One angry & rebellious novice threatens the stabilitry of all the nuns. Stunning!!
Wednesday 24 June - In Hovering Flight by Joyce Hinnefeld - a gentle novel about loving relationships, birds, art & the environment.Wonderful for people concerned with eco-issues, but a lovely read for everyone.
Wednesday 17 June - Relief, a stunning collection of short stories from a young NZ writer Anna Taylor. Sometimes dark & menacing, often funny, always understated and subtle. Superb!
Wednesday 9 June - Burnt Shadows, Kamila Shamsie's Orange Prize shortlisted epic novel that crosses generations, cultures & continents (Nagasaki in 1945, to Pakistan, London, NY & the war in Afghanistan). Fascinating history, strong characters. Intriguing!
Wednesday 3 June - The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, short-listed for the Orange Prize for New Writers, this is a brilliant book about a black family struggling to survive on a huge, isolated ranch in South Dakota in 1917. Vivid landscape, strongly-drawn characters - you cheer for gutsy Rachel all the way. Inspiring!
Wednesday 27 May - In the Kitchen, the new novel from Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane. Fortyish Head Chef Gabriel starts to 'lose it' after the body of an immigrant worker is found in the hotel cellar. A lively look at midlife crisis & serious political issues.
Wednesday 20 May - The Help, a feisty, gripping novel by Kathryn Stockett exploring the lives of black servant women in the deep south in the early 60s. Fabulous stroppy women characters who are daringly subversive. Great stuff!
Wednesday 13 May - The Thing Around Your Neck - stunning collection of short stories that I read straight through from cover to cover; from the brilliant Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who is a guest at AWRFestival.
Wednesday 6 May - Mother's Day - the latest novel from the modest but highly talented NZ author Laurence Fearnley. In beautiful prose she perfectly captures the drudgery of an ordinary woman's life. Subtle, clever & beautifully done.
Wednesday 29 April - Dead People's Music - an astonshingly accomplished first novel from young NZer Sarah Laing (who has already won awards for her short stories) Old & new stories interweave, with the two women's lives linked by a cello. Outstanding.
Wednesday 22 April - The Flying Troutmans - a joyously quirky, very funny novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most popular authors. A road-trip like no other!! Fabulous!
Wednesday 15 April - Limestone, Fiona Farrell's beautiful, thoughtful, superbly structured new novel. One of NZ's most outstanding authors, writing at the top of her form. Marvellous!
Wednesday 8 april - The Winter Vault, Canadian poet Anne Michaels' gorgeous, long-awaited new novel. Breath-taking writing; huge social & political issues balanced with detailed personal issues. Superb!
Wednesday 1 April - The Adoration of Jenna Fox, an extraordinary teenage novel by Mary Pearson that will also give adults great stimulation and food for thought. Jenna recovers fron a horrific accident to gradually discover the extent to which she has been 'reconstructed'. A stunning & scary exploration of medical & bio-ethics.
Wednesday 25 March - Weathered Bones, a first novel from NZer Michele Powles about the lives of 3 strong women, one of whom was NZ's first woman lighthouse keeper at Pencarrow in the mid 1800s. Feisty & intriguing.
Wednesday 18 March - Janet Frame's Prizes- a gorgeous selection of 4 decades of her short stories, with 5 previously unpublished ones. An elegant & beautiful gift edition, containing prizes indeed!
Wednesday 11 March - Sing to Me Dreamer, a gorgeous reprint of Shonagh Koea's delightful novel, with the addition of 4 wonderful short stories. Quirky, original writing captured within rich & glorious covers. Beautiful!
Wednesday 4 March - Valley of Grace from wonderful Australian Marion Halligan. Set it Paris, the different stories of various characters end up linking together - about human connectedness, birth & death, human emotion ultimately winning over philosophy. Sophisticated, gentle, very wise.
Wednesday 25 February - Love Me by London poet & musician Gemma Weekes - a vivid, sassy novel set in New York as well as London, about passionate first love. Lively, engaging, capturing the pulse of the city.
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Wednesday 11 February - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexie's dazzling, hilarious, heart-wrenching story of growing up on 'The Res', an Indian reservation in the USA. For teens & adults. Outstanding!
Wednesday 4 February - The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, a delicious fat book that collects 20 years' worth of Alison Bechdel's brilliant cartoons. Full of lesbians & their friends & families, with stunning social & political satire.
Wednesday 28 January - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - the first of Steig Larsson's astonishing tilogy that has taken Sweden, Europe, & now the rest of the world by storm! Gripping intrigue with fraud, computer hacking, & missing people. Unputdownable!
Wednesday 21 January 2009 - A Mercy, Nobel Prize-winning Toni Morrison's new novel, set in the early days of slavery, examines class as well as race issues. Sad and beautiful.
Wednesday 17 December - Landings, Jenny Pattrick's absorbing historical novel set on the Whanganui River in the early 1900s. Full of vibrant characters & intriguing historical detail - essential reading for anyone planning to canoe down the river. (You can't go by paddle steamer any more!)
Wednesday 10 December - Black Orchids, Gillian Slovo's fascinating exploration of a 'mixed marriage' betwen a young English woman and a rich & priviged Sinhalese man, set in Ceylon & then Britain in the 1950s. Slovo does inter-racial things so well.
Wednesday 3 December - Salvage, a brilliant debut novel from Jane Kotapish. A poetic, darkly comic, tender dance through the eccentricities of a mother-daughter relationship & the unreliability of memory. Fantastic!
Wednesday 26 November - Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan's strangely beautiful, mystical tale about escaping the brutality of this world into a personal 'heaven'. With strong women characters, this is vividly imaginative & beautifully written.
Wednesday 19 November - Swimmer's Rope, the new novel from versatile local author Stephanie Johnson. A marvellous evocation of old Auckland, with a beautiful friendship between two boys that is ruptured by a horrifying incident. Thought-provoking & moving.
Wednesday 5 November - The Believers, by Zoe Heller, author of Notes on a Scandal. A lively tragi-comedy in which members of a New York family fight their own demons & each other. Audrey is one angry, feisty woman! Marvellously entertaining.
Wednesday 29 October - The 10pm Question, the most brilliant NZ novel I have read in a long time. From the wonderful Kate de Goldi, featuring a delightful 12 year old boy, it is tender, laugh-out-loud funny, and totally inspiring for all ages.
Wednesday 22 October - Forbidden Cities, Paula Morris's astute, spohisticated stories about escape, adultery, desire for the unobtaiable, bittersweet loss, set in different cities around the world. Great!
Wednesday 15 October - Consequences, Penelope Lively's marvellous novel that traces the lives of 3 generations of independent women from 1935 to the present day. Brilliant characters & settings, deeply moving.I hugged it to my chest when I finished!!!
Wednesday 8 October - The Lieutenant, Kate Grenville's superb companion to The Secret River. Its about morality & integrity, & the courage of the mathematician/astronomer to honour & respect the aboriginal people. One of the great novels of the year!
Wednesday 1 October - Etiquette for a Dinner Party, a marvellous debut collection of short stories form NZer Sue Orr - often dark, frequently quirky, always satisfying.
Wednesday 24 September - The Orphan Gunner, Sara Knox's brilliant novel about bomber pilots in WW2, with a vividly created wartime atmosphere & a delicately portrayed relationship between two gutsy women.
Wednesday 17 September - The Other Hand, Chris Cleave's extraordinary novel about a young Nigerian asylum seeker in Britain. Horrifying but full of black humour, with 2 strong women characters. Gripping.
Wednesday 10 September - The Blue, the marvellous novel from Mary McCallum, that deservedly won the Montana NZ Best First Novel Award and the Readers' Choice Award. Fabulous characterisation and sense of place. I loved it.
Wednesday 3 September - Sepulchre, Kate Mosse's vivid historical adventure set in the South of France, in which a young woman in 2007 'connects' with a young woman in 1891. Mysterious, magical, with tarot cards & dark forces. Great!
Wednesday 27 August - Xinran's China Witness in which the gentle, eloquent author of The Good Women of China travels the length & breadth of her vast homeland interviewing older people who have never dared speak before about surviving a century of tumultous change. Marvellous!
Wednesday 20 August - When Will There Be Good News, the brilliant new literary crime novel from the wonderful Kate Atkinson. Jackson Brodie is back, along with several delightfully strong & stroppy women characters. Great gripping stuff!
Wednesday 13 August - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer. This is one of the most delightful novels of the year! Set in 1946, it is told entirely in letters between London author Juliet and a variety of quirky characters on the island of Guernsey, who write to Juliet about how they survived the Nazi occupation. Totally charming - you end the book grinning!
Wednesday 6 August - Surviving & Moving On by Kim McGregor (originally published as Warriors of Truth) and Serial Survivors by Jan Jordan (stories of survivors of the Malcolm Rewa rapes) These two brilliant & important books celebrate courageous women who have survived sexual assault, and give strategies and support.
Wednesday 30 July - What's Happening to Our Girls? Maggie Hamilton's scary but compassionate & very accessible book about the early sexualisation & commercialisation of girls as young as 5 years. An outstanding & very helpful book.
Wednesday 23 July - The Rehearsal, an astonishingly accomplished first novel from a very young NZ author, Eleanor Catton. An inappropriate relationship between a high school student & her teacher is reflected in the theatre production devised by drama school students. Innovative, mature, brilliant!
Wednesday 16 July - Blue Sky July, a beautiful, poetic account by Nia Wyn of her struggle to raise her son Joe who has cerebral palsey. Unsentimental, courageous & inspiring.
Wednesday 10 July - The Worst Thing I've Done - Urula Hegi's new novel about the complex relationships between Mason, Jake & Annie, and Annie's newborn sister that the three agree to raise together when her parents are killed. Intriguing.
Wednesday 2 July - People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks' marvellous novel about the restoration of a gorgeously illustrated Jewish Haggadah saved in war-torn Sarajevo by a Muslim. Brooks traces its history back through time. Fascinating!
Wednesday 25 June - Bird, an amazing novel about a war refugee who became a Holywood starlet, party girl & drug addict, companion of beat poets and jazz greats, and ended up a Buddhist dying alone in a Himalyan cave. Wonderful!
Wednesday 18 June -The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the sassy, gritty, funny novel from Junot Diaz, one of the stars at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Brutal in parts but vivid, lively & stays with you.
Wednesday 11 June - Novel About My Wife, Emily Perkins' marvellous new novel about a late-thirties couple in London, with money troubles, house renovations, a new baby on the way - and strange behaviour from Ann, Tom's Australian wife. Gripping, and compelling.
Wednesday 4 June - Misconduct, a lively NZ novel from Bridget van der Zijpp. Simone seeks revenge after a relationship break-up, but gets herself sorted with the help of some very eccentric and delightful 'oldies' at the remote beach she escapes to. Enjoyable!
Thursday 29 May - The Story of Forgetting, a marvellous debut novel from 25 year old New Yorker Stefan Merrill Block. Teenager Seth researches the early Alzheimers his mother is suffering from. Able faces old age and waits patiently for his long lost daughter to return. Beautiful, sensitive, moving.
Thursday 22 May - Taking Pictures, the brilliant collection of short stories that Anne Enright read from at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival. Wise, cynical, funny !
Thursday 15 May - The Carhullan Army by award-winning Sarah Hall. A brilliant, disturbing future dystopia where women become strong and powerful, from one of the most exciting young writers in the world, and a star at AWRF.
Thursday 8 May - Is She Still Alive? Tessa's Duder's first book for adults is a lovely, varied collection of short stories about older women - funny, poignant, and very wise. Delightful and utterly enjoyable.
Thursday 1 May - Dreamers of the Day, a charming new novel from Mary Doria Russell. Agnes travels to the Middle East in the 1920s, mixes with Churchill, Gertrude Bell & Lawrence of Arabia, & discovers politics, love & adventure.
Thursday 24 April - The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling. Stunning! A women bookbinder in 1860's London finds herself binding Victorian pornography! She's a brilliant character & the novel is sensationally good.
Thursday 17 September - When We Were Bad, the gloriously funny novel by Charlotte Mendelson in which a large chaotic London Jewish family, led by matriarch & rabbi Claudia, falls apart. Adult children pluck up courage to revolt. Brilliant & delightful!
Thusday 10 April - The Senator's Wife, Sue Miller's latest book about the friendship between an younger and an older woman and their frustrations as wives and mothers. The Senator needed the 'Bobbit' treatment !!
Thursday 27 March - At the End of Darwin Road, the fascinating autobiography of Fiona Kidman, one of NZ's most respected writers. The warmth and integrity of this lovely woman shines through. Fantastic!
Thursday 20 March - The Outcast, a debut novel by Sadie Jones that is highly likely to make it onto my list of best reads of the year. It brilliantly captures the stifling and hypocritical society of 1950's Britain and troubled young Lewis captures your heart.
Thursday 13 March - The Clothes on Their Backs, a bold new novel from Orange Prize-winning Linda Grant, about immigrants to 70's London. Exploring the legacies of history and hidden pasts, it has a marvellously hideous slum landlord. Great!
Thursday 6 March - The Cellist of Sarajevo, a mesmerizing, moving novel by Steven Galloway, about the mortars and snipers that kept Sarajevo under seige from 1992 to 1996. A cellist plays; a young woman counter-sniper is assigned to protect him. Unforgettable.
Thursday 28 February - The Sorrows of An American, a marvellous new novel from Siri Hustvedt, author of What I Loved. Intelligent, thought-provoking ; about memory, secrets, and the subtleties of human relationships.
Thursday 21 February - The Way the Crow Flies, Canadian Ann-Marie MacDonald's brilliant novel about a murdered child and political secrets, set during the space race in the early 60s. Moving, engrossing, stunning!
Thursday 14 February - Addition, a marvellous debut Australian novel by Toni Jordan, in which Grace has obsessive-compulsive disorder. She counts everything, including the bristles on her toothbrush! Funny & delightful.
Thursday 7 February - Monster Love, Carol Topolski's gripping, terrifying novel about a couple who kill their own child. Brilliantly written by a psychotherapist, & told in the voices of the various people involved, this is un-put-downable!
Thursday 31 January - Bleeding Kansas a brilliant new novel by Sara Paretsky (not part of the V I Warshawski crime series). A cast of strong characters living in rural Kansas throw up some of the attitudes and prejudices prevalent in the US today. Damning of the Iraq War, this is rivetting stuff.
Thursday 24 January - The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany - corruption and chaos in Cairo in this funny, sexy and delightful international bestseller.
FIFTY-FIFTY WOMEN CAMPAIGN - The TOP 50 WOMEN WRITERS OF THE LAST 50 YEARS! (1955 - 2005) Voted by thousands of NZ readers nationwide:
1) Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale / Blind Assassin
2) Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible
3) Annie Proulx - Shipping News
4) Janet Frame - An Autobiography / Owls Do Cry
5) Margaret Forster - Have the Men had Enough?
6) Carol Shields - Stone Diaries / Unless
7) Doris Lessing - Martha Quest (et al)
8) Keri Hulme - Bone People
9) Patricia Grace - Potiki / Tu / Cousins
10) A.S. Byatt - Possession
11=) Elizabeth Knox - Vintner's Luck
11=) Isabel Allende - House of Spirits
13) Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist (et al)
14) Alice Munro - Runaway (et al)
15) Arundhati Roy - God of Small Things
16) Alice Walker - Colour Purple
17) Amy Tan - Joy Luck Club / Bonesetter's Daughter
18) Rose Tremain - Music & Silence
19=) Margaret Mahy - Memory / Changeover
19=) Margaret Drabble - Radiant Way
21) Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes at the Museum
22) Toni Morrison - Beloved (et al)
23) Pat Barker - Regeneration Trilogy
24) P.D. James - Death in Holy Orders / Devices & Desires
25) Fay Weldon - Lives & Loves of a She-Devil / Auto da Fay
26) Fiona Kidman - The Book of Secrets
27) J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter Series
28) Alice Sebold - Lovely Bones
29) Joanne Harris - Chocolat
30) Iris Murdoch - The Sea, the Sea
31) Jung Chang - Wild Swans
32) Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger
33) Philippa Gregory - Other Boleyn Girl
34) Maeve Binchy - Tara Road
35) Shonagh Koea - Sing to Me Dreamer
36=) Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
36=) Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres
38) Joanna Trollope - Choir / Other People's Children
39) Diana Gabaldon - Cross Stitch
40) Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper (et al)
41) Colleen McCulloch - Thorn Birds
42) Joy Cowley - Classical Music (et al)
43=) Barbara Anderson - Portrait of the Artist's Wife
43=) Anita Shreve - Pilot's Wife
43=) Ruth Rendell - Road Rage / Rottweiler
46) Rosamunde Pilcher - Shell Seekers
47) Jean Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear
48) Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack
49) Ursula le Guin - Earthsea Quartet
50) Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time
Thank you to the many hundreds of keen readers who voted.
The survey seems to have created quite a buzz!!
Wishing you all the richness of reading, Carole Beu
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