Something For The Weekend - Louise Kennedy s cultural picks
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The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending March 12
Bestseller chart
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.
AUCKLAND
1 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37)
New Ishiguro! New Ishiguro! It really should be shouted from the rooftops. (As should the fact that he’s appearing via livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival, in May.)
The Nobel Prize and Man Booker winner’s eighth novel is narrated by Klara, an android or “Artificial Friend” bought as a companion for an ill young woman in a strange future version of America. Ishiguro delves back into themes he explored in Never Let Me Go – and yes, it stacks up, and yes, you should read it.
Cairde Sligo Arts Festival will return to Sligo this July with an exciting programme once again bringing together artists, audiences and communities for a unique celebration of the arts against the backdrop of the stunning Wild Atlantic Way.
The arts festival will run from July 3rd to 11th, 2021. Highlights include To the Lighthouse, a major new commission of an illuminated outdoor spectacle by LUXE, Tumble Circus Travelling Cycle Circus; new work by Brokentalkers and the Uprooted theatre group,
Writing from the West featuring Kevin Barry, Louise Kennedy and Una Mannion, and the inaugural Cairde Word -Short Story Competition.
Speaking about the plans underway for the 2021 edition of the arts festival, Festival Director Tara McGowan said: As we face into another year of uncertainty; we are looking forward to working with artists, audiences and communities to find new and resourceful ways to create art and to celebrate together.