Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

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May 142009
 

I know this is a little late in posting, but the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival is on as we speak, 13 – 17 May. There are some great writers featured in this years festival – David Malouf, Richard Dawkins, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to name a few, as well as New Zealand authors Lloyd Jones, Greg McGee, Stephanie Johnson and many, many more!  The theme this year is “Find out what on Earth is going on.” Running at the Aotea Centre now, see the link to the website below for programme details. Auckland Writers and Readers Festival website

Book spotlight : A Perfect World by David Cohen

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May 102009
 
Book spotlight : A Perfect World by David Cohen

This book spotlight is on a New Zealand published book looking at parenting a child with autism. A Perfect World : A Father’s Quest to Unriddle the Mysteries of Autism by David Cohen Description: When David Cohen’s 3-year-old son, Eliot, is diagnosed as autistic, he has no idea what the condition is or what it means. He sets out on a global quest, taking in Europe, the Far East, North America and New Zealand, in order to learn more about the incurable neurological malady, which in Britain and the United States is estimated to afflict as many as one in every 150 children. (In New Zealand Autism New Zealand estimates that up to 20,000 New Zealanders are directly affected by autism). He meets some of the world’s leading autism researchers, clinicians, epidemiologists and educators along with other parents grappling with the same bewildering condition, including a mother who was driven to [...read more...]

What kind of books does BookieMonster sell?

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May 062009
 

This is usually the first question people ask when I tell them I own an online book shop! The answer is: all kinds of books! Here’s a small list of categories we sell in: novels classics poetry parenting health self-help gardening home improvement and DIY cook books biography music crime So you can see our stock list is pretty varied. This is a purposeful exercise – we can’t compete with big chainstores on stock holding numbers, so our aim is to provide our customer with books that they are interested in, but can’t always get hold of easily and cheapily. When you think of how many millions of books are published and printed, the number stocked by a chainstore (which concentrate on bestsellers and fast sellers) is a tiny percentage. We aim to tap into the much bigger percentage that you won’t see for sale at a Whitcoulls or Paper [...read more...]

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