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READ ANY GOOD BOOKS LATELY?
As some of you know, last weekend, many of the book worms of Auckland converged on the Aotea Centre for the well-regarded Auckland Writers Festival. 60,000 bums on seats listening to over 200 writers talk about their books, society, culture, local, national and international affairs, life, death - the lot. Now why I enjoy some of these sessions is not necessarily for the highbrow stuff – just help in directing my reading. For example, here’s one must read from an early session – Operation Trojan Horse [2021] by Stephen Davis. Flight 149 landed in Kuwait in August 1990, at the time of Saddam Hussein’s invasion, because of a bad miscalculation by MI6 and the British Government that has never been fully acknowledged and still reverberates today. Try It! Or Lucy Mackintosh’s Shifting Grounds – deep Histories of Tamaki Makaurau. [2021]. Plus 101 other presentations. Interested? Might see you there next year!
Alan Hayward