Upcoming Events
Join Jennifer Down on the Byron Writers Festival Road Trip. This year it's heading west to the beautiful northern tableland towns of Casino, Glen Innes and Tenterfield. Byron Writers Festival, StoryBoard program and the colourful StoryBoard bus will be transporting a group of city slicker authors out to talk tall tales with readers in the heartland of Australian bush mythology. Spoken word artist Miles Merrill and novelists Sophie Green and Jennifer Down will leave their lattes to saddle up with jillaroo Road Trip coordinator Zacharey Jane.
While in each town. the posse will be sharing their penmanship with local readers and writers in a series of workshops, discussions and conversations, thrashing out the rival merits of bush poetry vs. rap, rural romance vs. post-punk fiction. The evening events will be off-the-page entertaining, with something for book lovers of all ages.
StoryBoard and Byron Writers Festival Road Trip events are FREE and open to the public, so come in by the fire, take a load off and enjoy the company of some of Australia’s finest writers.
Join Mark Baker at Avenue Bookstore to talk about his new book Thirty Days: A Journey to the End of Love with Tim Byrne.
After the death of his wife, Kerryn, Mark Baker wrote an extraordinary portrait of their life together. How well did he know his wife? Did he keep the promises he made to her?
As well as The Fiftieth Gate, A Journey Through Memory, a seminal book on his parents’ experience during the Holocaust, Mark Raphael Baker has written a compelling memoir, Thirty Days, A Journey to the End of Love, about the recent death of his wife. He is Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation and Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the School at Monash University, Melbourne.
Bookings essential to rsvp@avenuebookstore.com.au with the subject line: Mark Raphael Baker at Elsternwick.
Join Paula Weston at Riverbend Books for the launch of her new standalone novel The Undercurrent. She'll be joined by Christine Bongers to launch this stellar new release from one of Brisbane's favourite YA writers.
Paula Weston, author of the much-admired Rephaim series, returns with this stand alone work. The Undercurrent is a futuristic thriller that is only slightly futuristic—but utterly and undeniably thrilling. Great writing, heart-burning characters, probing questions about where technology is taking us—and a plot that zips and zings like an electrical current itself. This is a great young-adult writer at the peak of her powers.
Join Text authors Kate Cole-Adams, Jennifer Down, Tim Flannery, Kate Grenville, Eka Kurniawan, Sebastian Smee, Jock Serong and Nicolas Rothwell at the Byron Writers Festival this August.
Join Jock Serong at Farrell's Bookstore to discuss his heart-stopping political thriller On the Java Ridge in conversation witn Kate Horton.
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.
Join Jock Serong at Avenue Bookstore to discuss his heart-stopping political thriller On the Java Ridge.
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.
Join Jock Serong at Ulysses Bookstore to discuss his new book On the Java Ridge.
On the Java Ridge follows the fates of two boats on Indonesian waters: one carrying Australian surf tourists, the otehr filled with assylum seekers. Combining fantastic writing with the pace and tension of a political thriller, On the Java Ridge is this year's The Dry.
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.
To book: In store, by ringing 9521 8020 or online at ulyssesbookstore.com.au
Join Text authors Elizabeth Kostova and Libby Angel at the Bendigo Writers Festival this August.
Join Jock Serong at the Mudgee Readers' Festival to discuss his heart-stopping political thriller On the Java Ridge.
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.
Are you a criminal mastermind? Do you know your Miss Fisher from your Miss Marple and your Luther from your Wallander? Join the Australian Crime Writers Association for a big crime quiz as they give out prizes for best crime trivia knowledge and announce the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards. Hosted by Michael Robotham and featuring Jock Serong, Holly Throsby and Sarah Schmidt.
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.
