Meet the Authors of The Bookshop Detectives!
Friday 18 September 2026 at 6:30PM
Walter Nash Centre
Event Description
Join us for an author talk with Gareth and Louise Ward, the authors of the bestselling Bookshop Detectives series!
Gareth and Louise Ward are the real-life owners of independent bookshop Wardini Books, with stores in Havelock North and Napier, New Zealand.
Louise is known among the staff as Fearless Leader and Gareth as a bit of a dick; he is, however, the author of the Tarquin the Honest and The Rise of the Remarkables book series, as well as being the bestselling and award-winning author of The Traitor and the Thief and The Clockill and the Thief.
Gareth and Louise met at police training college in the UK and are both ex-coppers. Louise has one murder arrest to her name, is an English Literature Graduate and as an ex-teacher inflicted Shakespeare on inner-city twelve-year-olds. She regularly reviews books on RNZ.
Both are obsessed with their rescue dog Stevie, avoid housework and gardening, and live in the cultural centre of the universe that is Hawke’s Bay, Aotearoa New Zealand.
When
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Friday 18 September 2026
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Walter Nash Centre
Walter Nash Centre, Taine Street
Taita Lower Hutt 5011
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