This week, we are lucky enough to have a double pass courtesy of the NZ Festival Writers Week, to see Francis Spufford in his solo session 'The Man that Books Built'. We also have an accompanying copy of Unapologetic, by Spufford.
"But it isn't an argument that Christianity is true - because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the deep and deeply ordinary vocabulary of human feeling, satisfying those who believe in it by offering a ruthlessly realistic account of the bits of our lives advertising agencies prefer to ignore. It's a book for believers who are fed up with being patronised, for non-believers curious about how faith can possibly work in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably wrong, literalistic, anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is now being made. Fresh, provoking and unhampered by niceness, this is the long-awaited riposte to the smug emissaries of New Atheism."
Alternatively, email info@booksellers.co.nz with the subject line 'Francis Spufford', and tell us who else you are going to see at the New Zealand Festival Wellington Writers Week.
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