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Do you enjoy delving into crime, mystery, and thrills in your reading or on screen? Are you enamoured by history and art, swept away by captivating characters and twisting storylines?The Ngaio Marsh Awards, in association with Auckland Libraries, invites booklovers to a fascinating evening of criminally good conversation featuring five talented Auckland storytellers.
Bestselling horror and thriller author Kirsten McKenzie will chair past Ngaios finalist and #1 internationally bestselling thriller writer Rose Carlyle, TV producer and debut novelist Andrea Hotere, TV writer-producer and #1 bestselling biographer Jude Dobson, and award-winning screenwriter and playwright Kathryn Burnett for a lively discussion about the art and craft of telling compelling stories, fictional or factual, on page or screen.
WHEN: Thursday, 27 March 2025
WHERE: New Lynn War Memorial Library, 3 Memorial Drive
WHEN: 6.15 for a 6.30pm panel discussion
This is a free event. Refreshments provided.
RSVP: newlynn.library@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Andrea grew up in Ōtepoti, Dunedin, and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, with her family. She studied history at the University of Otago, journalism at the University of Canterbury and has worked as a historical researcher, journalist, TV producer, and author. Her debut THE VANISHING POINT has been called "an astonishing and beautiful novel" by Dame Fiona Kidman.
Jude is an award-winning historical documentary producer, writer, and TV personality who has been researching, writing, producing and directing WWI and WWII content for several years. She won the New York Radio Awards Bronze Award in 2023 in the historical documentary category, for an Anzac Day audio documentary about WWII aviators telling their stories. In bestselling memoir THE LAST SECRET AGENT, Jude helped remarkable wartime spy Pippa Latour share her story.
Kathryn is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and writing tutor who has worked in the New Zealand and Australian screen industry for over 25 years. With co-writer Riwia Brown, Kathryn won Best Drama Script at the 2021 TV NZ Awards for "The Tender Trap". Her writing has also been shortlisted for the 2023 Adams NZ Play Award, and appeared in the REMAINS TO BE TOLD anthology. Her recent TV credits include episodes of crime dramas "The Brokenwood Mysteries" and "My Life is Murder".
Rose is an Auckland lawyer, author, and keen adventurer. She has crewed on scientific yachting expeditions to subantarctic islands and lived aboard her own yacht in the Indian Ocean for a year, sailing it from Thailand to South Africa. Her debut thriller, THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR became an international bestseller, and a finalist for the Ngaios. Rose was a 2020 Michael King Writer in Residence. Her latest thriller is NO ONE WILL KNOW.
Kirsten is a bestselling horror and thriller writer and publishing consultant who fought international crime for 14 years as a Customs Officer, before leaving to work in the family antique store. Now a full time writer, Kirsten lives in Auckland with her family and alternates between writing time travel trilogies and polishing her next thriller. Last year her short story "The Watchman", part of the REMAINS TO BE TOLD anthology, was shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
New Lynn War Memorial Library (New Lynn), Western Union, McCrae Way, New Lynn, Auckland 0600, New Zealand,Auckland, New Zealand
