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We have made our book selections for 2021 13 May 7pm – Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi 17 June 7pm – The Messenger by Markus Zusak 8 July 7pm – The Mitford Girls by Mary S. Lovell 12 August 7pm – The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde 9 September 7pm… Read More

Our lightning talks celebrating 150 years for the Dunedin Athenaeum Library in the Athenaeum Building.

The feature article in the Star Community Newspaper about our plans to celebrate the 150th year of the Athenaeum Building

The Covid 19 lockdown really mucked up the ABC schedule but we have finished all the books we chose in 2019 and have selected five news books to take us through to 2021. We are skipping July this year and start again on the 13th of August at 7pm with Woman, Girl, Other by Bernardine… Read More

It is always lovely to get a compliment.  The ABC has been going a few years now and has settled into a small but dedicated band.  After our last meeting I received the following lovely email from one of our members. Just  wanted  you to know  how much  I  enjoy  book club.  Pretty  well all… Read More

We started weekly readings of Janet Frame’s To The Is-land in June last year and steadily worked our way through all three volumes.  In total it took us about nine months and we ended up with a small but passionate group who adored getting to know Janet Frame in this way.  We all agreed that… Read More

Iona’s book launch went off without a hitch.  She had a good crowd and sold a lot of books which was great to see. I have included a number of photo’s I took on the night.

It is always slightly anxiety provoking holding an event.  After the initial excitement of coming up with what you think is a good idea, you start to harbour doubts as the nominated date comes closer and all the ways that things could go wrong begin to haunt you.  So I am delighted and slightly smug… Read More

Sadly ill health forced Vincent O’Sullivan to pull out and we missed his personal insights but Phillippa Duffy from the UBS stepped up and shared the story of how she came to Dan Davin.  Her passion for Davin’s writing got us off to an electrifying start. Fiona Farrell shared the story of how as a… Read More

Jennifer Lane’s first novel All Our Secrets has won the 2018 Ngaio Marsh Crime Awards.  It is sitting on our shelves just waiting for you to take it out.