Email digest: Monday 28 May 2012

Events
Come to An Evening with Emily Perkins this Thursday and quiz her about The Forrests

Tonight in Masterton there’s a Play it Strange book event with Mike Chunn


Book News
Peter Simpson awarded Creative NZ Michael King Fellowship

Masterton’s David Hedley (Hedley’s Bookshop) talks about his popular Yarns in Barns festival

Consumers Increasingly Choose Tablets Over E-Readers


Book reviews
The Forrests is a simply wonderful book.” There. Done. Dusted. The Listener reviewers verdict is in… 

Black Tide: The Story Behind the Rena Disaster by John Julian

Graft by Helen Heath

The new office
The moment you’ve all been waiting for – here’s our sea view from the new office 


From around the internet
Jeff Kinney – author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid – on using his own life to create his stories

Ian Wedde meets Arthur Rimbaud

Surely Da Vinci was working on the ultimate pocket ebook reader

Yesterday I listened to a great podcast about the life of Walker Books founder Sebastian Walker