Upcoming Events
Join Jennifer Down at Paperback Bookshop for their Salon Series this September. The Salon Series brings together our community of writers and readers in a program of informal readings and discussions, right in the intimate setting of Paperback Bookshop.
Jennifer Down is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in publications including the Age, Saturday Paper, Australian Book Review and Overland. She is one of Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Novelists of the Year, 2017. Our Magic Hour, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. Pulse Points was published in 2017, it is a collection of short stories. She lives in Melbourne.
Join Sian Prior at the St Kilda Library with Damon Young and Ruth Quibell for a Creative Non-Fiction Author Discussion Panel.
Creative non-fiction is a booming genre, topping bestseller lists worldwide, but it presents unique issues in its artistic approach to facts for its creators and our panel will be discussing the perils, techniques and ethical questions that face writers working in this field.
Sian Prior is a journalist and broadcaster specialising in the arts and popular culture, a media consultant, and a teacher at universities and writers centres. She has a second career as a musician and recording artist. Sian lives in Melbourne. Shy: A Memoir is her first book.
Join Tim Flannery with Tom Owen Edmunds at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival to discuss his latest book Sunlight and Seaweed.
It can be hard to feel hope in the face of daily news updates on climate change and our threatened environment. Scientist, writer and 2007 Australian of the Year Tim Flannery insists that we can imagine a positive future for the planet, in his accessible and uplifting Sunlight and Seaweed: An Argument for How to Feed, Power and Clean Up the World.
Join Sue Williams and Beth Montgomery at the Coal Creek Literary Festival to discuss their latest books.
Sue Williams is a science and travel writer and a chartered accountant who also holds a PhD in marine biology. Her articles have been published in a range of magazines and on ‘The Science Show’ on ABC Radio National. Sue lives in Melbourne with her husband. Her books are Murder with the Lot and Dead Men Don’t Order Flake.
Beth Montgomery grew up on Melbourne’s fringe. She worked as a teacher in the Pacific Islands and is married to a Solomon Islander. They have three children and now live in rural Victoria, where Beth is at work on her next books. Beth has written two novels, The Birthmark and Murderer’s Thumb.
Join Sue Williams at the Cole Creek Literary Festival this October!
Sue Williams is a science and travel writer and a chartered accountant who also holds a PhD in marine biology. Her articles have been published in a range of magazines and on ‘The Science Show’ on ABC Radio National. Sue lives in Melbourne with her husband. Her books are Murder with the Lot and Dead Men Don’t Order Flake.
Join Beth Montgomery at the Cole Creek Literary Festival this October!
Beth Montgomery grew up on Melbourne’s fringe. She worked as a teacher in the Pacific Islands and is married to a Solomon Islander. They have three children and now live in rural Victoria, where Beth is at work on her next books. Beth has written two novels, The Birthmark and Murderer’s Thumb.
Join Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist to talk about their funny, wise and romantic new book Two Steps Forward at Coventry Library.
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past and looking to make a new start.
The Camino changes you. It’s a chance to find a new version of yourself. But in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino for centuries, can these two very different people find each other?
Two Steps Forward is a novel about renewal—physical, psychological and spiritual. It’s about the challenge of walking a long distance and of working out where you are going. And it’s about what you decide to keep, what you choose to leave behind and what you rediscover on the way.
Join Sebastian Hampson at The Pah Homestead to celebrate his new book The Benefactor.
Set in the glamorous world of galleries and high-end magazine publishing in New York, The Benefactor is about art’s power to change how we see ourselves and our world, and what happens when the foundations we’ve built our identities upon are knocked out from beneath us.
Sebastian Hampson has studied and written on the history of modern art and urban design. He has lived in Europe and the United States and is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Join Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist to talk about their funny, wise and romantic new book Two Steps Forward at Readings.
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past and looking to make a new start.
The Camino changes you. It’s a chance to find a new version of yourself. But in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the Camino for centuries, can these two very different people find each other?
Two Steps Forward is a novel about renewal—physical, psychological and spiritual. It’s about the challenge of walking a long distance and of working out where you are going. And it’s about what you decide to keep, what you choose to leave behind and what you rediscover on the way.
Join Jock Serong at Great Escape Books for a literary lunch with Peter Mares. Come to discuss Jock's heart-stopping political thriller On the Java Ridge and have a fabulous lunch.
A group of Australian surf tourists encounter an asylum-seeker boat in distress, while, back in Canberra, the government is gunning for re-election with a hardline new policy to stop the boats. A breathtaking novel of action and political intrigue from an exciting new novelist.
Jock Serong’s debut novel Quota won the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel. In 2016, The Rules of Backyard Cricket was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. On the Java Ridge is his third novel. Jock teaches law and writes feature articles in the surfing media and for publications such as The Guardian and Slow Living.
