Christchurch Writers’ Festival 2006

The Press Christchurch Writers' Festival 2006 ran from 8 to 10 September. The festival website www.chchwritersfest.co.nz displays the full programme.

Read our report of the 2006 festival.

What's your Favourite Book winners

The following people won copies of 1001 books you must read before you die for entering our What's Your Favourite competition:

Canterbury’s favourite book has been found

As part of the Festival, Christchurch City Libraries has been proud to support 'What's Your Favourite', the search for Canterbury’s favourite book of all-time. After two months and thousands of votes, Cantabrians have voted C.S. Lewis’ The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe as their favourite book. It was tailed closely by The Bible and Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.

Canterbury’s love affair with the C.S. Lewis classic was not unexpected after much of the film adaptation of the book was filmed in the Castle Hill area.

With the top 20 books in Canterbury found in early August after the first round of voting, the public were then given another opportunity to vote again for their favourite book from the updated list.

The What’s Your Favourite? initiative, a joint effort between Christchurch City Libraries, The Press and the Christchurch Book Festival Trust, evolved into a Canterbury-wide event, with Christchurch City Libraries working to get its library colleagues in Waimakariri, Selwyn, Ashburton and Timaru districts and their customers to participate.

The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe is the tale of four English school children who find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magical land of Narnia. While there they assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

Canterbury's Top 20

Here is the full top 20 - click the cover or link to go to the book in our catalogue and place a hold on it.

More Favourites

Favourites from celebrities, newscasters, librarians and more suggestions.

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