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All welcome to the official launch party for Star Gazers by Duncan Sarkies!🦙 Tuesday 18 February, 6pm
🦙 Meow, Edward Street, Wellington
This is a free event with speeches, pizza, an alpaca slide show and mystery guests. Plus, a special performance by locally renowned alpaca-adjacent musicians, Orgle & Pronk.
The book will be on sale thanks to Schrödinger's Books, and Duncan will be signing copies.
See you there! All welcome.
For more about the book: https://teherengawakapress.co.nz/star-gazers/
‘It’s like Succession, but with alpacas.’
—Toby Manhire, The Spinoff
The alpacas are nervous. Accusations are flying about a rigged election, a mysterious illness is spreading, the Alpaca News is being censored by higher powers, and skullduggery is threatening the Breeders Showcase.
Amidst a mass of self-interested parties, a forthright vet and a diplomatic engineer strive to protect the herds and restore democracy.
By turns vital, farcical, heartbreaking and chilling, the much-anticipated alpaca novel by award-winning writer Duncan Sarkies is a wild and tender leap – or, more accurately, pronk – into the heart of alpaca breeding, and a snapshot of a world at a crossroads.
Duncan Sarkies is a writer of novels, theatre, and screen stories for film and television. He has been recognised with the Best First Book of Fiction Award at the New Zealand Book Awards for Stray Thoughts and Nosebleeds, and the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Duncan has received the Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary, the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship, and a residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. Duncan’s screenplays include Scarfies, and the adaptation of his first novel Two Little Boys, both collaborations with his brother Robert. Duncan has written for TV including Flight of the Conchords and What We Do in the Shadows, and wrote, directed, and co-created the acclaimed audio series The Mysterious Secrets of Uncle Bertie’s Botanarium. Star Gazers is his third novel.
Cover artwork: Rieko Woodford-Robinson
Cover design: Todd Atticus
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Meow, 17 Edward St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand,Wellington, New Zealand
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