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Friday 12 May
12.15–12.45pm 

Athenaeum Library ​

Free ​​​

Lunchtime Reading: The Birds and the Bees

Bring your lunch to the Athenaeum to hear Dunedin’s Ockham New Zealand Book Award shortlisted authors read from their work. Emma Neale’s Billy Bird is a finalist in the fiction category and Barbara Brookes’s A History of New Zealand Women is shortlisted in the Illustrated Non-Fiction category. Introduced by Phillippa Duffy of University Book Shop. 

Please note that space is lmited so admission cannot be guaranteed.