Our members, The Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby, are running the 50/50 survey once again in 2015. This survey aims to find out the best 50 women writers of the past 50 years. Click through to vote now!
To celebrate the launch of this survey, the result of which will be unveiled on NZ Bookshop Day, we have five excellent books by women authors, suggested by Carole Beu and provided by their publishers as a giveaway.
The Party Line, by Sue Orr, is having its Wellington launch this evening, at Unity Bookshop. "This is a coming-of-age story for two young girls who hold a mirror up to the place and people they love. It's a coming-of-age story, too, for a community forced to stare back at the image of a toxic soul." (Vintage imprint, provided by Penguin Random House)
Our members, The Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby, are running the 50/50 survey once again in 2015. This survey aims to find out the best 50 women writers of the past 50 years. Click through to vote now!
To celebrate the launch of this survey, the result of which will be unveiled on NZ Bookshop Day, we have five excellent books by women authors, suggested by Carole Beu and provided by their publishers as a giveaway.
The Party Line, by Sue Orr, is having its Wellington launch this evening, at Unity Bookshop. "This is a coming-of-age story for two young girls who hold a mirror up to the place and people they love. It's a coming-of-age story, too, for a community forced to stare back at the image of a toxic soul." (Vintage imprint, provided by Penguin Random House)
Lila, by Marilynne Robinson, is on the Man Booker longlist. "Revisiting the beloved characters and setting of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead and Orange Prize-winning Home, Lila is a moving expression of the mysteries of existence." (Virago)
My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante, is the gripping first volume in her widely acclaimed Neapolitan Novels. "This exquisitely written quartet creates an unsentimental portrait of female experience, rivalry and friendship never before seen in literature." (Text Publishing)
A Year of Marvellous Ways, by Sarah Winman. Our reviewer said, "Covering themes of love, loss, failure, redemption and magic, A Year of Marvellous Ways is the story of an 89-year-old woman, waiting for ‘something’ that was foretold in a dream. [It] is like reading a long form poem; full of lyrical language and rich with metaphor, the story is lush and multi-layered." (Tinder Press)
The Wolf Border, by Sarah Hall. "The Wolf Border investigates the fundamental nature of wilderness and wildness, both animal and human. It seeks to understand the most obsessive aspects of humanity: sex, love, and conflict; the desire to find answers to the question of our existence; those complex systems that govern the most superior creature on earth." (Faber & Faber)
To be in to win via email, email info@booksellers.co.nz with the subject line 'Fifty', and tell us who your favourite female authors is. The competition closes on Thursday 10 September, at 12 noon.
The winner of Unbreakable Spirit, by Karen McMillan, was Christine Frayling.
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