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Jane Caro, Gail Jones and Karleah Olson. Moderator: Steph Vizard
Australia has long been fascinated by our vast spaces and by the potential to become ‘lost’. Our three authors play with this fear in very different ways. Jane Caro’s thriller takes us to remote Barrington Tops where a woman’s scream echoes; Gail Jones’ The Name of the Sister traverses a lonely desert road; and Karleah Olson writes an Australian gothic fiction centered on the disappearance of two young people from coastal WA. Get lost with us.
Historical Amnesia
Debra Dank, Steve Vizard & Clare Wright. Moderator: Ginger Gorman.
It is time to take an unflinching look at questions around identity and history that Australia has long grappled with. Debra Dank presents Terraglossia and examines the linguistic colonisation that European arrival brought with it. Steve Vizard delves into the creation of the myth of Gallipoli in Nation, Memory, Myth. And Clare Wright examines how the course of Australian democracy was changed in Naku Dharuk: The Bark Petitions.
Golden is a warm-hearted optimistic story about friends and friendship and art and beauty—and the power of letting yourself be loved…
Join local author Jade Timms for the launch of her debut novel, Golden. Jade will be in conversation with local author, Gabbie Stroud to discuss the highs and lows of writing, publishing and life on the Far South Coast.
Refreshments will be provided. Books will be available to purchase with EFTPOS available.
Free, but bookings are essential.
We hope you'll join us for our First Tuesday Book Club meeting for June 2025.
Tickets are $40 each and include entry, a welcome drink, and a selection of canapes served prior to the presentation. Plus, a FREE reading copy.
The Paperbark Tree Committee is a heartfelt story about growing up and leaving childhood behind; it's about family and being a good brother, fitting in and finding friends, and about making mistakes and learning from them.
Karys McEwen is a school librarian, bookseller, vice president of the Victorian branch of the Children's Book Council of Australia, and education advisor for the Melbourne Writers Festival. She is passionate about the role libraries and books can play in the wellbeing of young people, and she writes the substack 'I Read A Lot'.
Spend an evening with Helen Garner in conversation with comedian Broden Kelly about The Season, her account of a year spent shadowing her grandson’s under 16s AFL team, the Flemington Colts.
The book is a love letter to footy, to her last grandchild as he passes from boy to man, and to the joys of youth and team sport
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. Her works include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief and three volumes of her diaries. She lives in Melbourne.
Bookings required.
Judith Brett, interviewed by Sally Warhaft
Fearless Beatrice Faust celebrates, explains and questions her struggle to change both herself and her world. Drawing on public records and private writings, award-winning biographer Judith Brett creates a compelling and psychologically nuanced portrait of a gifted, argumentative woman who refused to be a victim. She is joined by Sally Warhaft in this discussion.
Join us for the launch of Gail Jones' new literary fiction novel, The Name of the Sister.
Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. She is the author of two short-story collections and eleven novels, and her work has been translated into several languages and has received numerous literary awards. Originally from Western Australia, she now lives in Sydney.
Gail Jones’s new novel, set in Sydney and the Mars-red landscapes surrounding the remote mining town of Broken Hill, explores how stories about identity and history multiply in the absence of reliable facts. And then the stories redouble once the Unknown Woman is identified and given a name. In an urgent finale that neither of the major characters could have anticipated, contradictory clues will proliferate about the true name of the sister.
Bookings are essential.
Please join us to celebrate the Sugarcane Kids series by Charlie Archbold.
Charlie will be signing copies of her books: The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat and The Sugarcane Kids and the Empty Cage.
Keep an eye out for her upcoming release, The Sugarcane Kids and the Mystery of Angel Bay!
Charlie Archbold is an educator and an award-winning writer. Her first novel, Mallee Boys, was a CBCA older readers honour book. Her first book in the Sugarcane Kids middle-grade series, The Sugarcane Kids and the Red-bottomed Boat, was shortlisted for the Text Prize and went on to win the Readings Children’s Prize and the Davitt Children’s Novel Award and was a CBCA notable book.
Melanie Cheng is a writer and general practitioner. She was born in Adelaide, grew up in Hong Kong and now lives in Melbourne. Her award-winning debut collection of short stories, Australia Day, was followed by her highly acclaimed first novel Room for a Stranger in 2019.
Melanie will be talking about her new novel, The Burrow, a story about ordinary people navigating extraordinary suffering and finding healing through a bond with a pet rabbit.
Free, but bookings are essential.
