Upcoming Events
Join Antipodes Bookshop as they launch their 2020 event series with Alice Bishop, author of A Constant Hum and a vital new voice in Australian fiction. A Constant Hum grapples with the aftermath of bushfire with an eye for telling detail. Some of these stories cut to the bone; others are empathetic tales of survival, even hope. All are gripping and stunningly written - an essential and timely collection. Drinks and nibbles provided. Book at hello@antipodesbookshop.com.au or (03) 5984 4217.
Join Ellena Savage as she launches her debut collection, Blueberries, at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.
Dr Astrid Lorange will launch the book, with readings by Eda Gunaydin, Andrew Pippos and Jonno Revanche.
All welcome.
Michelle Scott Tucker's Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World is a stunning achievement of storytelling and scholarship, and a groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English country woman who went on to become one of Australia’s most significant historical figures.
Enjoy an informative and engaging talk about Elizabeth Macarthur and her contributions to early settlement in Australia at Sunbury Library.
Free, but bookings required.
Join Arnold Zable in conversation about his new non-fiction work, The Watermill.
Join Ellena Savage for the Melbourne launch of her debut collection, Blueberries, at Frontyard Projects in Marrickville.
Dr Maria Tumarkin will launch the book, with readings by Bronte Coates, Leah Jing and Nicky Minus.
All welcome.
Join Sand Talk author Tyson Yunkaporta in-conversation with The Old Lie novelist Claire G. Coleman, talking about Indigenous thinking and how it can change the world. Registrations required.
From the author of Cafe Scheherazade and The Fighter comes a new nonfiction collection about humanity's indestructable desire for survival.
This quartet of true stories—of displacement, of survival and of resistance—spans the globe and reflects the universal spirit of humanity. Master storyteller Arnold Zable takes us to distant lands, and those closer to home, to weave tales within tales of people compelled to live extraordinary lives. In conversation with Bram Presser.
Arnold Zable will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on Arnold's new book The Watermill, a quartet of true stories about humanity's indestructible desire to survive. Examining displacement, survival and resistance, this book spans the globe, telling tales of people from remote provinces in China and Cambodia to pre- and post-war Yiddish Poland, Kurdish Iraq and Iran, and present-day Melbourne.
Join the Book Bird team as they chat with debut Australian memoirists Emily Clements and Ellena Savage. They will delve into the potentials and appeal of memoir as a genre, and speak specifically to both authors' books, stories and lives. Wine and nibbles will be provided.
Please note that bookings are essential for this event.
Tyson Yunkaporta will be talking about some of the intractable and complex problems facing the world right now, and how Indigenous systems of governance, social organisation, economies and ways of thinking can provide models and provocations to find our way through the next few decades and beyond as detailed in his book Sand Talk.
