Kia ora all,

Thank you to everyone who came along last night to discuss everything Joan of Arc. We will now leave the battles and cold pottage of 15th century France and embroil ourselves in a love story ( but not a romance ) set in the world of creativity and gaming.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.
- Penguin Random House

Come discuss this novel with us on 
Wednesday , October 26th, 6.30 pm

Location: Upstairs at Time Out 

Copies of Tomorrow.. can be purchased online from Time Out

RSVP is essential as numbers are limited to 20
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz

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What members read this month:

Companion Piece ( Jill )
The Book of Form and Emptiness ( Sue D. )
Bowie's books ( Jeremy )
People from my Neighborhood ( Gaby )
The Fran Lebowitz reader ( Gaby )
Foster ( Pauline )
Great Circle ( Ramali )
Harlem Shuffle ( Jilly )
This Time Tomorrow ( Ingrid )
The Corrections ( Trudie )

Ngā mihi nui
Trudie

Kia ora all,

This month we turn our attention to 15th century France and a secular and feminist reimagining of the life of Joan of Arc. Warning! - this is not a biography of Joan but if you enjoyed Lauren Groff's Matrix or Ariadne by Jennifer Saint then this could be a novel for you.

Joan by Katherine J Chen

"Jeanne d’Arc became a symbol, rather than a person, the moment she joined the court in exile of the Dauphin, the outcast prince who would become Charles VII, King of France...Making her real requires imagination and empathy, and Chen brings both to the task of putting solid flesh on the charred bones of a legendary figure...The Joan we meet here is not a saint...She’s a savant, and her genius is for violence..." - Kirkus 

"Chen imagines the illiterate teenager as an abused child who uses her anger to become an avenging warrior. Wowing crowds with feats of strength, breaking bones with her bare hands, this is Joan of Arc, Action Hero" - New York Times

Sounds fun!
Come discuss this novel with us on:

Monday, September 19th, 6.30 pm
Location: Upstairs at Time Out 

Copies of Joan  can be purchased online from Time Out

RSVP is essential as numbers are limited to 20
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz
FULL but email to be put on the waitlist.

Kia ora all,

This month we decided to look for something heart-warming with a touch of playfulness. Our search led us to a new novel by Kate de Goldi, acclaimed author of The 10PM Question (2008) and From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle (2015). For readers who yearn for more fiction set in the South Island then this one is definitely for you. 

Eddy, Eddy by Kate de Goldi

"Eddy, Eddy is a coming-of-age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your way back from grief. Set in a post-earthquake Christchurch and loosely mirroring A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens this is a richly layered novel, deftly written with humour and pathos: a love story, peopled with flawed and comical characters, both human and animal "

Come discuss this novel with us on 
Monday, August 22nd, 6.30 pm

Location: Upstairs at Time Out

Copies of Eddy, Eddy  can be purchased online from Time Out

RSVP is essential as numbers are limited to 20
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz

Kia ora all,

This month's selection is the new novel from the Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. Although we try hard not to repeat authors Douglas Stuart's first novel was such a hit with Lit Reads that we could not pass up his new novel :

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

"As he did so deftly in Shuggie Bain, Stuart takes readers deep into the working-class world of Glasgow—here, circa the early 1990s—where jobs and trade unions have been gutted. 
Young Mungo is a suspense story wrapped around a novel of acute psychological observation. It's hard to imagine a more disquieting and powerful work of fiction will be published anytime soon about the perils of being different."
    - Maureen Corrigan, NPR

Come and discuss  -

Monday, July 18th, 6.30 pm

Location: The GoodHome Gastro Pub, 37 Normanby Road, Mt Eden.

Copies of Young Mungo can be purchased online from Time Out

RSVP is essential as numbers are limited to 20
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz

Kia ora all,

This month's book was selected from this year's Women's Prize shortlist a list which always provides some great reads.

Louise Erdrich is the author of 28 works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children's books and was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 2021 for her novel The Night Watchman.  She is a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and much of her work explores her Native American heritage.

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

"a ghost story, a love letter to the written word, an exploration of Indigenous identity, an urgent response to a volatile and cataclysmic world. At once brutally realistic and weirdly metafictional, it burns with moral passion, brims with humour, and captivates with its striking and irresistible voice "
    - Priscilla Gillman, Boston Globe Review

Come and discuss this novel -

Monday, June 20th, 6.30 pm

Location: The GoodHome Gastro Pub, 37 Normanby Road, Mt Eden.

Copies of The Sentence can be purchased online from Time Out

RSVP is essential as numbers are limited to 20
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz

Kia ora all,

Firstly, thanks to everyone that came to the Greta and Valdin book club this week. It was a delight to see everyone again and share what we have all been reading. Book recommendations from the group can be found at the bottom of this email.

This month we switch from NZ fiction to NZ non-fiction. Time Out has selected a book that should appeal to fans of Charlotte Grimshaw's The Mirror Book - one of our more popular books from the Lit Reads 2021 season.
 

Grand by Noelle McCarthy

From Catholic Ireland in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s to sparkling Auckland in the first years of the new millennium, Grand is a story of the invisible ties that bind us, of bitter legacies handed down through the generations, and of the leap of faith it takes to change them.
    - Penguin Books NZ
 

Come and discuss this fascinating memoir :

Monday, May 30th, 6.30 pm

Location: The GoodHome Gastro Pub, 37 Normanby Road, Mt Eden.

Copies of Grand can be purchased online from Time Out

RSVP is essential as numbers are limited to 20
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz
 

What we read this month 

The Time Lizards Archaeologist ( Sue )
Bewilderment ( Bev )
Matrix
Mazarine
Fleishman Is In Trouble ( Ingrid )
Heartburn
Ganglands ( Jilly )
Crazy Love
Keeping the House
Sorrow and Bliss ( Fiona )
The Good Winter ( Neil )
Best American Essays 2021
The Library of Unfinished Business (Teresa)
Sea of Tranquility ( Trudie )

La Vie, les gens et autres effets secondaires, by Yvan Nabokoff with Philippe Aronson ( Jeremy )

  Sneak Peek ...
Monday, June 20th 

The Sentence by Louise Eldrich

THIS EVENT IS FULL - ADD YOUR NAME TO WAITLIST
books@timeout.co.nz

Kia ora all,

Welcome back to the Time Out Lit Reads bookclub, now back in person and raring to go! We have a temporary new location and an exciting lineup of 2022 literature to tempt you with. 

The next Lit Reads title is :

Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly.

"From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Maori–Russian–Catalonian family. This beguiling and hilarious novel by Adam Foundation Prize winner Rebecca K Reilly owes as much to Shakespeare as it does to Tinder. Set in a world that is deeply familiar (but also a bit sexier and more stylish than the real one), Greta and Valdin will speak to anyone who has had their heart broken, or has decided that they don’t want to be a physicist anymore, or has wondered about all of the things they don’t know about their family."

- Te Herenga Waka University Press

Come and discuss this Ockham award contender with us on 

Monday, May 2nd, 6.30pm

Location: The GoodHome Gastro Pub, 37 Normanby Road, Mt Eden.

Weather permitting, we will be located at outside tables. Food and drink are available for purchase. 

Thank you to everyone who has continued to support Lit Reads during our virtual meetings over the last several months. It's been a bright spot during some testing times!

Some changes are ahead for Lit Reads bookclub as sadly Suri is leaving Time Out for exciting new horizons. Since starting this book club in 2018 Suri has done an amazing job of building up this little community of like-minded book fiends and it has been an absolute delight. 

This event will be a great opportunity to say goodbye and thank Suri for all her wonderful enthusiasm for the book club and to assure everyone that things will proceed as normal. Time Out continues to select the best of new literature for us each month while I will do my best to guide discussions and be a point of contact for questions.

It is our intention to return to our home at Time Out as soon as Tāmaki Makaurau reaches the Green Light Covid-19 Alert level.

In the meantime, it would be lovely to see everyone again and to discuss Greta and Valdin and any other books you have been reading since last we met.

RSVP is essential, numbers are limited
email Trudie
books@timeout.co.nz

*Sneak Peak for Next Month 
Monday May 30th 
Grand by Noelle McCarthy

 Amor Towles brings us The Lincoln Highway - a road trip story through 1950's America. Following a journeying group of young people, Towles builds a rich world of memorable characters. It was a difficult choice but The Lincoln Highway is our owner Wendy's favourite novel of the year. Towles is the author of word-of-mouth phenomenon, A Gentleman in Moscow.

We are aiming to have the next Lit Reads in person! Dependent on what the alert-level settings and case numbers look like, we are hoping to have our next meeting at Essex park at 6.30pm-8pm.

Please send through an RSVP to books@timeout.co.nz, any changes to our meeting due to Covid restrictions will be updated here.

The first in the Key to All Mythologies trilogy, Franzen’s latest novel Crossroads is an epic family saga set in 1970s Illinois.

Following ageing Patriarch Pastor Russ, his wife and his three brilliant and enigmatic children, Crossroads explores the psychological impacts of a country on the cusp of change.

Our first Lit Reads for 2022 will be Monday 21st February. Please send through an RSVP to books@timeout.co.nz. Due to current case numbers and to ensure staff and customer safety, we will be doing an online book club. We will resume in-person book club when we are at the green light setting. You can join us on the night here: https://meet.google.com/bsa-jtsh-ajw?authuser=0https://meet.google.com/bsa-jtsh-ajw?authuser=0

Our final Lit Reads title for the year is by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Powers. His latest novel, Bewilderment, is a tender and intimate exploration of loss, the cosmos and the future of our planet through a gorgeously rendered relationship between father and son. Join here on Monday November 22nd and select 'Join Now' at 6.30pm :)

We are currently going ahead with the assumption that we will be in Level 3 for our next session, however, we will keep you updated as levels change. Due to space and social distancing requirements, we will not be able to safely resume book club at the shop until we are at Level 1.

This will sadly be our last session for the year before the Christmas season is upon us at Time Out! Thank you all so much for joining us this year, in person and via Zoom. It's so awesome to be able to connect with our community (even though we all have Zoom and screen fatigue!).

As always, with our final meet coming up, we would love to have feedback about your favourite Lit Reads titles for the year. All entries go into the draw to win a $100 gift voucher which will be drawn at our final book club.

For any questions, email Suri at books@timeout.co.nz

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE.

Our next Lit Reads title is Second Place by Rachel Cusk. The novel follows the terse relationship between a writer, M, eagerly awaiting the arrival of a renowned artist to her home, and the entourage that arrives with the artist. A clever, darkly funny novel about male privilege, human relationships and the disconnect between our interior lives and the outside world.

While it's not quite the same meeting virtually, I'm hoping this means that all those who were waitlisted can now join the conversation! Please also feel free to join us if you haven't read the book and would like to share what you've been reading/your to be read piles :)

Join me on Monday 6.30pm at this link- I'll have my wine and snacks ready and will be on call beforehand if anyone is struggling to use the link. Send through an email and I will give you a call, but I would recommend testing the link a little in advance.

Stay safe and hope to see you soon!

Suri xxx

Our next Lit Reads title is another New Zealand title, Acorn Prize Fiction winner Catherine Chidgey. Set in World War 2, Remote Sympathy tells the story of an unlikely friendship between an SAS Officer's wife and a Jewish doctor whose invention could change her life. Beautifully told and exceptionally researched, Remote Sympathy is a fascinating look into collective and individual pain and the bridges we can build in spite of it.

Numbers are limited, please RSVP to Suri at books@timeout.co.nz.

$10 a ticket, nibbles and wine provided.
RSVP essential, numbers are limited - email Suri books@timeout.co.nz

Our first non-fiction choice for Lit Reads is the eagerly anticipated new memoir by Charlotte Grimshaw, The Mirror Book. An erudite examination of psychology, family and the legacy of the Man of Letters in New Zealand, The Mirror Book is a bold portrait of one of New Zealand's most revered writing families. Told with keen-eyed focus and remarkable honesty, Grimshaw's latest memoir is an electrifying meditation on memory, family and the art of telling your own story.

$10 a ticket, nibbles and wine provided.
RSVP essential, numbers are limited - email Suri books@timeout.co.nz

For fans of Olga Tokarczuk and Umberto Eco comes a sprawling saga traversing 500 years of human history. Following Vikings in 1000 AD, Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the last Inca emperor in the 1500s, Laurent Binet’s newest novel is a deep and strange exploration of colonialism’s past and the earth-shattering global impact of empire building.

$10 a ticket, nibbles and wine provided.
RSVP essential, numbers are limited - email Suri books@timeout.co.nz

Nobel-prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro explores the world of AI in his newest novel, Klara and the Sun. Told through the eyes of a curious and keenly observant AI robot, Klara and the Sun examines love, loss and what it means to be human.

Short-listed for the Ockham Prize in 2018, Brannavan Gnanalingam's new novel Sprigs is a powerful examination of masculinity, power and gender in New Zealand. Set at a boys' highschool, Sprigs takes place during a celebratory rugby party where a violent incident occurs. Exploring the impacts of the events with tenderness, empathy and a searing truthfulness, Sprigs is a confronting novel that forces us to examine power and privilege in Aotearoa.

*Winner of the Booker Prize 2020* Set in 1980s Glasgow, Shuggie Bain is a heart-achingly beautiful novel exploring working class life and the effects of Thatcherism in Scotland. Navigating addiction, abuse, trauma and the loss of innocence, Shuggie Bain is a piercing look at the impacts of marginalization on familial relationships and children.

Lit Reads is now back in full swing and we will be providing snacks and wine as normal! Remember to email through an RSVP at books@timeout.co.nz.

Book Club 2021 Dates:
January 18th: Xstabeth
February 22nd: Shuggie Bain (Booker 2020 Winner)
March 22nd: Sprigs
April 19th: TBA (announced Feb)
May 24th: TBA (announced March)
June 21st: TBA (announced April)
July 19th: TBA (announced May)
August 23rd: TBA (announced June)
September 20th: TBA (announced July)
October 18th: TBA (announced August)
November 22nd: TBA (announced September)

Our next Lit Reads title will be Xstabeth by David Keenan; a haunting glide through ghosts of pasts, music and loss. As bold and tenacious and For the Good Times and This Memorial Device, Xstabeth forays again into the prescience of music, this time through the eyes of ghosts and saints. As always, this will take place upstairs at 6.30pm and we are anticipating wine and snacks as normal in the new year! Please let us know if you have paid for a session this year and we will transfer that payment to January's book club. Copies are in stock now- just let us know if you'd like one set aside and email through to books@timeout.co.nz to RSVP!

Book Club 2021 Dates:
January 18th: Xstabeth
February 22nd: Shuggie Bain (Booker 2020 Winner)
March 22nd: TBC (announced Feb)
April 19th: TBA (announced Feb)
May 24th: TBA (announced March)
June 21st: TBA (announced April)
July 19th: TBA (announced May)
August 23rd: TBA (announced June)
September 20th: TBA (announced July)
October 18th: TBA (announced August)
November 22nd: TBA (announced September)

From the author of White Tears comes a breathtaking, state-of-the-world novel about one man's struggle to defend his values and create a reality free from the shadows of the past.  

'From now on when you see something, you're seeing it because I want you to see it. When you think of something, it'll be because I want you to think about it...'   And with those words, the obsession begins.  

A writer has left his family in Brooklyn for a three month residency at the Deuter Centre in Berlin, hoping for undisturbed days devoted to artistic absorption.   When nothing goes according to plan, he finds himself holed up in his room watching Blue Lives, a violent cop show with a bleak and merciless worldview. One night at a party he meets Anton, the charismatic creator of the show, and strikes up a conversation.   It is a conversation that leads him on a journey into the heart of moral darkness. A conversation that threatens to destroy everything he holds most dear, including his own mind.  

Red Pill is a novel about the alt-right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history. It tells the story of the 21st century through the prism of the centuries that preceded it, showing how the darkest chapters of our past haunt our present. More than anything, though, this is a novel about love and how it can endure in a world where everything else seems to have lost all meaning.  

We will be meeting at the store in Level 1. $10 a ticket. Drinks and light refreshments are provided.

Please email Suri at books@timeout.co.nz with any questions. 

The final instalment in her stunning quartet, Ali Smith's Summer is a powerful political elegy that slices through the noise of disinformation with cutting precision.
Following a family and a country on the brink of momentous change, Ali Smith explores the fate of humanity and the human condition through a layered domestic story.
Beautifully unravelled and prescient as ever, Summer is an urgent novel for 2020 .

We will be meeting at the store in Level 1. $10 a ticket. Drinks and light refreshments are provided.

Please email Suri at books@timeout.co.nz with any questions. 

Our book club this month (touchwood!) will be back upstairs at Time Out, September 24th 6.30pm-8pm. In keeping with Ministry guidelines, numbers are limited to ten upstairs, so please RSVP as soon as possible as spots are filling up quickly.  

Our September title is the darkly funny Death in Her Hands by the ever-irreverent genius, Ottessa Moshfegh! For fans of Daphne du Maurier, Death in Her Hands is a taut psychological mystery that, in classic Moshfegh style, plays with the conventions of a popular genre.

Please email Suri at books@timeout.co.nz with any questions. 

Our next Lit Reads title is by debut NZ novelist, Amy McDaid. Exploring the lives of three suburban Aucklanders, Fake Baby observes the restless pursuit of everyday dreams and the small tragedies that keep them at the bay. Told with a wry sense of humour and a kind eye for humanity, Fake Baby is a coy and clever debut by a talented young writer.

If you have any questions, contact Suri at books@timeout.co.nz

Our next Lit Reads title, A Burning, by debut novelist Megha Majumdar is a searing portrait of social mobility, class and racism in modern India. Told through the eyes of three central characters looking for fame and greatness, A Burning explores the Indian Dream with biting satire and political urgency. 

Tickets are $10, wine and light snacks are provided. All are welcome!

If you have any questions, contact Suri at books@timeout.co.nz

Kia ora book club friends!

Thanks so much to everyone who joined our virtual chats- it was a pleasure to meet all of your cats and dogs (and would love to see them at the shop!). Starting Monday 22nd June, Lit Reads will be held in our usual spot at the usual time upstairs (6.30pm-8pm), supplanted with wine and snacks. 

Our June Lit Reads title, Hamnet, explores the fictionalized life of Shakespeare's son and wife. Looking at the tragic events that led to his son's death; the terse inner world of Shakespeare's marriage, the politics of gender and class and the effects of plague and illness, Hamnet is a powerful historical novel and a delicate insight into Shakespeare's little-known inner world.

Tickets are $10, wine and light snacks are provided. All are welcome!

If you have any questions, contact Suri at books@timeout.co.nz

Following up on our Lit Reads pick for May, Rajorshi will join us virtually to talk more about his book and answer questions.

A feminist superhero epic, Shakti is a story packed with magic, darkness, pain, dreams, superpowers, laughter and light. Your Power. Our Rules. Amid a political climate of right-wing, nationalist leadership, three very different women in the city of Calcutta find themselves gifted with magical powers that match their wildest dreams. There is one catch - the gifts come with a Faustian price.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rajorshi Chakraborti is an Indian-born novelist, essayist and short story writer. He was born in 1977 in Calcutta, and grew up there and in Mumbai. He has also lived and studied in Canada, England and Scotland, and now lives with his family in Wellington, New Zealand.

Rajorshi is the author of six novels and a collection of short fiction. Or the Day Seizes You was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award in 2006, one of the best-known prizes for English-language writing in India. Mumbai Rollercoaster received an honourable mention in the Children's Writing category of the Crossword Book Awards, 2011.The Man Who Would Not See was longlisted in the fiction section of the 2019 Ockham Awards.

All are welcome!

1. Make sure you are using Google Chrome.

2. Click the below button to go to the book club. ( I recommend checking this link works for you in the days before book club starts.)

3. Click Join Hangouts Meet and in the window that opens, click Join Now.

Jenna will be on hand during the evening to offer technical support. You can text or call her on 0276987870, or email the shop at books@timeout.co.nz.

In lieu of having our usual book club upstairs, we invite you to join us for wines and book chats in the virtual world! We would like to keep our Lit Reads community connected and engaged, continuing our in-depth book chats in whichever ways we can during this time.

A feminist superhero epic, Shakti is a story packed with magic, darkness, pain, dreams, superpowers, laughter and light. Your Power. Our Rules. Amid a political climate of right-wing, nationalist leadership, three very different women in the city of Calcutta find themselves gifted with magical powers that match their wildest dreams. There is one catch - the gifts come with a Faustian price.

All are welcome!

1. Make sure you are using Google Chrome.

2. Click the below button to go to the book club. ( I recommend checking this link works for you in the days before book club starts.)

3. Click Join Hangouts Meet and in the window that opens, click Join Now.

Jenna will be on hand during the evening to offer technical support. You can text or call her on 0276987870, or email the shop at books@timeout.co.nz.

In lieu of having our usual book club upstairs, we invite you to join us for wines and book chats in the virtual world! We would like to keep our Lit Reads community connected and engaged, continuing our in-depth book chats in whichever ways we can during this time.

Shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2020, Auē is a devastatingly beautiful portrait of hope, loss, violence and familial love in Aoētearoa. An extraordinary look at the cycles of loss,  Auē follows a young man and his community facing cycles of loss and peers into the sorrow and humanity of those at the behest of violence.

All are welcome!

1. Make sure you are using Google Chrome.

2. Click the below button to go to the book club. ( I recommend checking this link works for you in the days before book club starts.)

3. Click Join Hangouts Meet and in the window that opens, click Join Now.

Jenna will be on hand during the evening to offer technical support. You can text or call her on 0276987870, or email the shop at books@timeout.co.nz.

LIT READS UPDATE!

In lieu of having our usual book club upstairs, we invite you to join us for wines and book chats in the virtual world! We would like to keep our Lit Reads community connected and engaged, continuing our in-depth book chats in whichever ways we can during this time.

In light of today's new, increased measures around social distancing and in order to ensure the safety of our customers and staff, we have decided not to move forward with a physical book club meeting for this month. To make this work best, we invite you to email through any extra-curricular reading and questions you'd like to ask, which we'll all be able to tackle via video and text chat. You will need a Gmail account to video chat with us, but if not, you can still join us via Google Chat using the below instructions:

We will send an Hangout invite to everyone on the Lit Reads RSVP list. You can then go to your Google Drive and open your Calendar to see scheduled meetings.
In Calendar, click the event you want to join.
Click Join Hangouts Meet and in the window that opens, click Join Now.

If you do not have a Gmail/Google account, you can still join us via video call! Click here on Monday night at 6.30pm to join us if you do not have a Gmail account . Guests without an account can present and participate in the video call, but other features, such as text chat and Hangout apps will not be available to them.

Jenna will be on hand during the evening to offer technical support. You can text or call her on 0276987870, or email the shop at books@timeout.co.nz.

For anyone who has already paid for this month's book club, your RSVP will be transferred to the next meeting. We are re-assessing the situation daily and will keep you updated with any future postponements and changes in date.

A strange and beautiful psychological drama that follows a young woman dealing with the recent death of her older husband. Set in metropolitan China, with the bustling backdrop of urban life and Tibetan mysticism, Braised Pork is a startling and surreal meditation on loss, urban loneliness and myths new and old.

All are welcome!

If you have any questions, contact Suri at books@timeout.co.nz

Longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize and very recent winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, The Lost Children Archive is a haunting, beautiful elegy on the urgency of the border crisis and the dehumanization of children fleeing violence. Told through the eyes of a family journeying from New York to the Apache mountains and attempting to capture the echoes of children who are lost at the border, The Lost Children Archive evokes the sound, loss and seriousness of the border crisis.

Tickets are $10, wine and light snacks are provided. All are welcome!

If you have any questions, contact Suri at books@timeout.co.nz

Kia ora and Happy New Year all!

Thanks so much for bearing with me during this incredibly busy Christmas and New Year season- I hope you've all had a warm and lovely holiday and are ready to get stuck back into book club for the year! We'll be convening again on January 27th at 6.30pm and will have a full list of dates for Lit Reads in 2020 too!

We'll be starting the year with Edna O'Brien's new title, Girl.
O’Brien is an important writer who has long given a voice and created a space for girls and women in crisis. This novel tells the story of Maryam, one of a group of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. Girl will rip your heart out, but you won’t be able to put the book down.

Our next session will be run by our fabulous book-buyer Kiran Dass who currently reviews books for bFM, RNZ, The NZ Herald and The Listener. 
You can check out Kiran's excellent review of Girl for RNZ here!

Tickets are $10. Light refreshments will be available.

As always, please email us at books@timeout.co.nz with any questions.

Looking forward to hearing about all of the wonderful titles you've all been reading over the summer!

Ka kite,
Suri