Japanese writer Haruki Murakami heads a stellar line-up at the Auckland Writers Festival in New Zealand the full programme for which has just been released. Among the others attending the festival, which runs from 13-17 May at the Aolea Centre, are multi-award winning Australian writer Tim Winton (Eyrie, Cloudstreet), David Mitchell (The Bone…
Read The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (well, a pre-publication extract)
I fling open my bedroom curtains, and there’s the thirsty sky and the wide river full of ships and boats and stuff, but I’m already thinking of Vinny’s chocolatey eyes, shampoo down Vinny’s back, beads of sweat on Vinny’s shoulders, and Vinny’s sly laugh, and by now my heart’s going…