ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Wilbur Sargunaraj is a musician, speaker, and Cultural Intelligence Facilitator based in Treaty 6 Territory, Canada and India.  His years of cross-cultural experience, combined with his genuine love for connecting with people from diverse backgrounds, have given him a unique voice in the field of CQ.  Wilbur has pioneered a series of interactive and ground-breaking CQ concert events, exhibitions and workshops.  His focus is on helping individuals and organizations navigate today’s multicultural complexities by sharing valuable knowledge and fascinating anecdotes from his journeys.  Wilbur was born in a small prairie town on Treaty 7 Territory, Alberta, Canada; grew up in sweltering Tamil Nadu, India; and now resides in the freezing Canadian Prairies.  

Si'oto'ofa 

Come join us to celebrate the launch of Simone Kaho's poetry book HEAL!.
You'll be treated to readings from poets Tulia Thompson, Serie Barford, and of course, Simone Kaho.
Books will be for sale at the event and Simone will be signing them.

Light food and kai will be provided.

Kia ora

Maris O’Rourke, Claudia Pond Eyley, Stephanie Huriana Fong and Duck Creek Press

warmly invite you to the launch of Birdsong/He Korihi

Sunday July 25th 2021, 4-6pm

Upstairs at Time Out Bookstore, 432 Mt Eden Road.

Bubbles and snacks! All welcome!

Readings in Māori and English!

Books will be available for sale.

Contact: morourke@hotmail.co.nz

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A sweet and quirky story about a child who is stuck carrying around an elephant, wondering if they will ever feel light and free again . . .

A story full of humour and heart about having the blues, in the form of a big heavy elephant.

One day an elephant came and sat on my chest.
I found it hard to get up or move around, to breathe or talk.

“I’m Blue,” the elephant said.
“Can you please move, Blue?” I asked.
“I don’t want to move. This is a good spot for me to sit.”
“You’re crushing me,” I said.
“Yet I find you very comfortable,” said Blue.

Mum read every book about elephants she could get her hands on, while Dad phoned an elephant specialist someone recommended. They all tried pushing, and pulling, and persuading. But would anyone — or anything — be able to shift Blue?

Warm, empathetic, hopeful and often funny, with the ability to be read on different levels, My Elephant is Blue is the perfect story to help children explore and understand the experience of living under the weight of a big sadness.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR:

Melinda Szymanik

Born when the Beatles were big, Melinda’s early ambitions to be a pirate and a time traveller didn’t pan out. She decided she would write these careers into stories instead, and set about becoming an author. Writing is a long apprenticeship, however, and it wasn’t until 2002 that she had her first story accepted for publication. Melinda describes the author’s life as rather like traversing the Himalayas. Reaching the top is only ever a brief experience before one must head on down the other side again and onto attempting the next mountain.
Melinda writes picture books, short stories and novels for children and young adults. She has been a finalist for a number of awards, and five of her titles are Storylines Notable Books. Her picture book, The Were-Nana, won the New Zealand Post Children’s Choice Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Sakura Medal. Her novel, A Winter's Day in 1939, won Librarian's Choice at the 2014 LIANZA Awards and her picture book Fuzzy Doodle, was a 2017 White Raven Selection.
She lives in Auckland with her family, and loves watching movies, eating out with her favourite people, and travelling abroad when the stars are aligned. She strongly believes that you can never have too many books, and you can never be too kind.

Vasanti Unka

Vasanti Unka is an award-winning writer, designer and illustrator noted for the originality of her storytelling, her riotously colourful and inventive illustrations and the gorgeous design and production of her picture books. 

Vasanti is the illustrator of Hill & Hole by Kyle Mewburn, which was shortlisted for the Best Picture Book award at the 2011 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Hill & Hole won the LIANZA Russell Clark Award the same year and was also the first children's book to win the Gerard Reid Award for Best Book at the PANZ Book Design Awards. 

The Boring Book (Puffin 2013), which Vasanti wrote, illustrated and designed, was named the 2014 New Zealand Post Margaret Mahy Book of the Year and also took out the Best Picture Book Award category. The judges described it as 'a remarkable book that exceeds any expectations of its genre. It exhibits the highest quality of design and its presentation is thoroughly original. The story takes delightful unexpected turns that charm afresh with each reading. Small children and older readers alike will be delighted by its subversive touches and entertained by its warmth and fun.' It also won international acclaim with its inclusion in the 2014 White Ravens Catalogue and in 2016 was named an IBBY Honour Book for the excellence of its illustrations.

Stripes! No, Spots!, published by Puffin in 2015 and described by poet Paula Green as 'scrumptious in every way', was lauded as a 2016 Storylines Notable Picture Book and was simultaneously published in the UK and US.

Who Stole the Rainbow?, a humorous mystery thriller for children about why rainbows appear and disappear, was published in 2018. It was a finalist for the Best Picture Book category of the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2019.

Vasanti lives in Auckland, New Zealand, where she juggles creative work and numerous book projects.

Due to popular demand, this event has been moved to the Mt Eden Village Centre, which is a block down from Time Out at 449 Mt Eden Rd.

We triumphantly return to events with C. K. Stead in conversation with Steve Braunias upstairs at Time Out Books, Mt Eden, Auckland. Please join us as C. K. Stead discusses his fascinating and oft-times controversial life as a New Zealand literary great, critic and activist. Drinks and nibbles provided and C. K. Stead will sign copies of his new book You Have a Lot to Lose: A Memoir 1956–1986.

The second volume of C. K. Stead’s riveting memoir, taking us from graduate school to Smith’s Dream and the Springbok Tour. 

New Zealand’s most extraordinary literary everyman – poet, novelist, critic, activist – C. K. Stead told the story of his first twenty-three years in South-West of Eden. In this second volume of his memoirs, Stead takes us from the moment he left New Zealand for a job in rural Australia, through study abroad, writing and a university career, until he left the University of Auckland to write full time aged fifty-three.

It is a tumultuous tale of literary friends and foes (Curnow and Baxter, A. S. Byatt and Barry Humphries and many more) and of navigating a personal and political life through the social change of the 1960s and 70s. And, at its heart, it is an account of a remarkable life among books – of writing and reading, critics and authors, students and professors.

From Booloominbah to Menton, The New Poetic to All Visitors Ashore, from Vietnam to the Springbok Tour, C. K. Stead’s You Have a Lot to Lose takes readers on a remarkable voyage through New Zealand’s intellectual and cultural history.

RSVP to books@timeout.co.nz

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

C. K. Stead is a distinguished, award-winning novelist, literary critic, poet, essayist and Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate from 2015–2017, has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Fiction and is a Member of the Order of New Zealand, the highest honour possible in New Zealand.

THIS EVENT IS SADLY CANCELLED.

A book launch in Auckland to celebrate the latest AUP New Poets release, featuring readings and refreshments!

Ben Kemp
Vanessa Crofskey
Chris Stewart
Anna Jackson

Plus others to be announced

In stores now:

Post-it notes and shopping lists, Japanese monks and children's lungs: AUP New Poets 6 is a deep dive into the rich diversity of New Zealand poetry today. Relaunched under the editorship of Anna Jackson in 2019, AUP New Poets 6 features substantial selections from the poetry of BenKemp, Vanessa Crofskey and Chris Stewart. We shift from Kemp's slow-paced attentive readings of place and people in a selection moving between Japan and New Zealand, to the velocity of Vanessa Crofskey's fierce, funny, intimate and political poetry, which takes the form of shopping lists, Post-it notes, graphs, erasures, a passenger arrival card and even "poetry", and finally to Chris Stewart's visceral take on the domestic, the nights cut to pieces by teething, the gravity of love and the churn of time. AUP New Poets 6 is an arresting introduction to the rich diversity of contemporary New Zealand poetry.

Celebrate the launch of Star Trails with Alexandra Fraser!

The book had its genesis in my thesis Deconstructing Light, which I wrote for Master of Creative Writing AUT. The poems are an investigation of the impact of my father’s influence on me - his scientific mind, his love of photography and astronomy and how this influence has shaped my own development, career choice ( a science teacher), my own learning to see the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Alexandra Fraser is an Auckland poet and member of the Isthmus group. She has been published widely in anthologies and magazines both in New Zealand and overseas. Star Trails is her second collection. Her first is Conversations by Owl-light.

An extraordinary visual data book like no other Clustered yet scattered, we New Zealanders live across the country's physical landscapes, experiencing its varied weather and environments. We co-create its political, economic and social systems on a daily basis. Each of us has a particular view of Aotearoa, yet nobody comprehends the whole. This book's sets of maps and graphics help New Zealanders make sense of their country, to grasp the scale, diversity and intricacies of Aotearoa, and to experience feelings of connection to land, to place, to this time in our history, and to one another. By making data visible, each graphic reveals insights about Aotearoa. They answer a range of questions: Who visits us? How were these lands formed? Where do we live and work? How equal are we? How do we hurt ourselves? Where do our cats go to at night? This compelling mixture of charts, graphs, diagrams, maps and illustrations is functional, beautiful, insightful and enlightening. It tells us where we are, here, in 2019. Essays by some of New Zealand's best thinkers complete the package.

Join Dunc for the launch of The Big Loop!

In August 2015, Dunc Wilson became the first person to circumnavigate New Zealand on a bike. This 10,940 km journey followed one rule: cycle the closest available route to the coastline. The Big Loop candidly details Wilson's 240-day cycling adventure, through native bush, ragged coastlines, farm stations and more - demonstrating how acquainting oneself with our country is best achieved under 100 km/h.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Dunc Wilson was born in Greenwich, London. He grew up riding bikes, on a diet of summer camping holidays. He moved to New Zealand in 2008, working as Chief Online Editor for RadioLIVE. More than half a decade in Auckland only intensified his desire to get outdoors and discover the rest of the country. He is now a producer for The AM Show on Three and Magic Talk, but can often be found out tramping New Zealand's bush or sleeping in a bivvy bag in a field somewhere.