The Survivors is Steve Braunias’s third and final book based on his court reporting. It retells twelve mysteries of human nature – unusual stories of how people choose to survive their own lives.
Subjects include troubled French backpacker Eloi Rolland, Chinese migrant Chen Chao who becomes a murderer after a late-night misunderstanding, and acclaimed German author Volker Pilgrim, who wanders Auckland’s streets in rags. Steve talks about gruesome murders, chance meetings, and self-imposed exile with journalist Mike White.
This event is eligible for the 5 for $95 ticket bundle. You can pre-purchase a copy of “The Survivors” with your ticket at checkout and collect it at the event.
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Mike White
Mike White is an award winning journalist and senior writer for Stuff, and the author of books Who Killed Scott Guy? and How to Walk a Dog. He has recently moved to Central Otago from Wellington.
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Steve Braunias
Steve Braunias is the author of 10 books, including Civilisation (winner of the 2013 NZ Post award for best book of non-fiction) and The Scene of the Crime, published by HarperCollins in 2015. He writes for the New Zealand Herald, is the literary editor at Newsroom, and serves as life president of the Hamilton Press Club. He has won more than 40 national awards for writing, including the 2009 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Literary fellowship, the 2010 CLL Non-Fiction Award and the 2006 Qantas Fellowship at the Qantas Media Awards in 2006. With an ability to write across many genres, he has won awards for travel, sports, crime, and food writing, as a book reviewer and humourist. He has won writing fellowships to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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