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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 10.00-11.00AM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
In 1817, the young Ngare Raumati chief Tuai set off on a two-year trip to England, one of the rst Ma-ori to venture to Europe. Almost one hundred years later in 1908, Katherine Mans eld left Wellington to make a home in England. Both are the subjects of 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards nominations: the shortlisted Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds by Alison Jones and Kuni Kaa Jenkins, and the longlisted A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mans eld’s Wellington, by Redmer Yska. In conversation with Geoff Walker the authors re ect on encounters with other worlds, the shaping hand of place, and the contrasts between home and abroad.
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DEAR OLIVER: PETER WELLS
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 11.30-12.30PM ASB THEATRE, AOTEA CENTRE
The work of writer Peter Wells is distinguished by a careful
scrutinizing of particular and general histories of Pa- keha- New Zealanders. Over the last year he has explored each in moving ways: from his ongoing Facebook diary project documenting his psychological and physical navigation of cancer, to his just published memoir Dear Oliver, in which family letters found among his mother’s effects lead him to examine a not untypical family’s journey from a 19th-century British dock to 21st- century Hawkes Bay. In conversation with David Herkt.
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SUBTERRANEAN WONDERS
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 11.30-12.30PM LOWER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
In one of the most handsome books published in 2017, which won Neil Silverwood the New Zealand Geographic 2017 Photographer of the Year Award. Silverwwood and Marcus Thomas deliver a treat for cavers and non-cavers alike. Caves: Exploring New Zealand’s Subterranean Wilderness showcases the beauty of this country’s underground cavern, and the mettle of those who explore them. They deliver a guided tour.
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LEGACIES OF LOSS
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 11.30-12.30PM HEARTLAND FESTIVAL ROOM, AOTEA SQUARE
The legacy of untimely death inform two profound pieces of recent writing: NZ writer, teacher and Families Commission CEO Jan Pryor has written the memoir After Alexander, centered around the 1981 cot death
of her four-month-old son; award- winning Australian writer Jesse Blackadder’s novel, Sixty Seconds, draws on the death of her two-year- old sister in a swimming pool when she was 12. Pryor and Blackadder explore lives interrupted, the keenness of loss, and the resilience of family. Catriona Ferguson leads the conversation.
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KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOURS: LORIN CLARKE
FRIDAY MAY 18 – 11.30AM-12.30PM UPPER NZI ROOM, AOTEA CENTRE
The latest venture of the Australian writer, director, broadcaster and podcaster Lorin Clarke (daughter
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