The Women’s Bookshop in Ponsonby Road, Auckland, is only your average size rectangular suburban retail store, but The Read can’t think of another Kiwi bookshop with a bigger community outreach.
Just this year, owner Carole Beu has put on a Summer Series of International Women Writers events – Andrea Levy, Marina Lewycka, Xinran, Elizabeth Kostova, Sarah Dunant and Sarah Walters – over February and March at Epsom Girls Grammar’s Raye Freedman Arts Centre.