Come along to chat about books! We meet on a designated Tuesday morning/Wednesday evening monthly at The Booklover Bookshop to discuss our latest bookchat book. Your ticket price includes 1x copy of the bookchat book, nibbles & drinks, and the opportunity to meet like minded booklovers while discussing the latest and greatest novels. There is also the option to buy a ticket without the book if you happen to already own it.

May’s bookchat book is Hastings by Dick Frizzell.

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A loving memoir set in small-town New Zealand.

‘If I’d been asked to vote on it I would’ve said I’d landed at the centre of the universe. Standing on our corner of Sylvan Road and Victoria Street, with Te Mata Peak, the Tukituki River and the mad wilderness of Windsor Park to the back of me and the distinctly non-wilderness of Cornwall Park and the misty vista of the Ruahines in front of me, I was the master of all I could barely survey.’

So writes the much-loved painter Dick Frizzell in this charming, big-hearted memoir. It’s an endearing, and at times hilarious, love letter to his home town, Hastings, and the weirdly innocent world of the 1950s and early 1960s.

Upon checkout you can choose to pick-up the book in person (free) or we can ship it to you for $7.00!