At the granary...

Marti Friedlander and Emily Perkins gave excellent and well-attended sessions at the Page & Blackmore Readers & Writers festival today. 
We sold out of Marti Friedlander's new book, but we'll have more in the shop early in the week!

At the signing table

Today at Readers & Writers there were two sessions with the wonderful (and indefatigable) Kate De Goldi: storytime in the morning and a talk 'The 10PM Question and More' in the afternoon. And then she was kept busy inscribing books for a great queue of lovers of her books! Writers work really very hard, even when they're not writing.

The Thinking Brunch - Readers and Writers, Day 2

L-R Jim Salinger, Karen Healey, Craig Potton, Matt Lawrey (chair), Sir Alan Mark, Dot Kettle, Ralph Chapman

An inspiring morning at the first Thinking Brunch debating the topic Economy vs Environment. The Thinking Brunches are some of the most popular sessions at the Readers and Writers Festival.

The second brunch will be on the 27th of October featuring panelists Emily Perkins, Bill Manhire, Gabrielle Hervey, Hon Chris Finlayson and Ali Boswijk.

Karen Healey, Readers and Writers Day 1

Great first day at the Page & Blackmore Readers & Writers. Here's super enthusiastic YA author Karen Healey talking with two of our keen teen readers, Sara & Richard, about her book When We Wake.

Readers and Writer's Festival 2013 - Packing In

Charlie's Angels or the Three Stooges?

The Page and Blackmore Readers and Writer's Festival kicks off tomorrow. We have 12 writers and 2 Thinking Brunches on the cards, so this equates to a lot of stock needing to be transported to the venue at Founders. And all in the pouring rain too!