The Black Monk | with author Charlotte Grimshaw
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Join award-winning authors Charlotte Grimshaw and Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri) as they pull back the veil and shine the light on Grimshaw's enigmatic new novel, The Black Monk.
This intriguing work of metafiction is a companion piece to Grimshaw's best-selling 2021 memoir, The Mirror Book. The Black Monk follows writer Alice Lidell as she faces her brother's advancing addiction while trying to make sense of her own role within her family and within a world at war with itself. Described as part psychological thriller, part family saga, The Black Monk explores the shifting sands of domestic and global power dynamics, shame and denial, and the truths and tales we tell ourselves. Do not miss this opportunity to hear two of Aotearoa's finest writers in conversation.
About the book:
The Black Monk by Charlotte Grimshaw - Alice Lidell is haunted by her brother’s decline, and a shadowy figure called the Black Monk. As past and present blur, she confronts family secrets, shame, and the stories that keep her alive.
About the author and chair:
- Charlotte Grimshaw is the author of eleven critically acclaimed books to date, encompassing novels, short stories and memoir. She is a winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award. Her story collection Opportunity was shortlisted for the prestigious Frank O’Connor International Prize, and Opportunity won New Zealand’s premier Montana Award for Fiction, along with the Montana Medal for Book of the Year. Several of her subsequent books have been finalists in local and international book awards. Grimshaw’s fifth novel, Soon, a bestseller in New Zealand, was published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Anansi in Canada and the United States. These two novels were made into a TV series, The Bad Seed. Her novel Mazarine was longlisted for the 2019 Ockham Book Awards. In 2021 she published her bestselling memoir The Mirror Book, which was shortlisted for the Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards.
- Paula Morris MNZM (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri) is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist, and editor of the anthology Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories (2023). She teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland and edits the Aotearoa NZ Review of Books.
Book signing and sales at the event:
Borrow a Bestie or buy your own copy on the day with sales provided by The Women's Bookshop. EFTPOS, credit card and cash payments accepted. No surcharge on Paywave.
Charlotte and Paula look forward to meeting everyone after the event - come up to get a book signed or just to say kia ora.
This event is presented by Auckland Council Libraries as part of We Read Auckland / Ka Pānui Tātou i Tāmaki Makaurau.
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