Upcoming Events
In Conversation with Helen Garner
With David Leser.
The Season is an unexpected and exuberant book: a celebration of the nobility, grace and grit of team spirit, a reflection on the nature of masculinity, and a tribute to the game’s power to thrill us.
Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction. She was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2019. And in 2023 she was awarded the ASA Medal for her outstanding contribution to Australian literature. 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.
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Lust, Love and the Whole Courtship Thing
Publishing's gift that keeps on giving.
Belinda Alexandra, Nina Kenwood and Annie Lawson with Sophie Gee.
Nina Kenwood won the Text Prize for her debut YA novel, It Sounded Better in My Head, which went on to be published in six languages, was a finalist for the American Library Association’s William C Morris Award, as well as being shortlisted for several Australian awards. Her second book, Unnecessary Drama, continued her success both in Australia and overseas. The Wedding Forecast is Nina’s first novel for adults.
Bookings are essential.
Writers on Writing
Michael Brissenden, Hilde Hinton and Jessica Stanley with Ailsa Piper.
In this unforgettable story about what ‘happily ever after’ might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it. Against the backdrop of a turbulent decade in politics, she reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.
An honest, entertaining and intelligent portrait of a woman in love, Consider Yourself Kissed will capture your heart.
Free, but bookings are essential.
Let's Talk Love
Diving into the heart of fiction.
Andrea Goldsmith, Annie Lawson, Richard Piper and Jessica Stanley with Jonty Claypole.
In this unforgettable story about what ‘happily ever after’ might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it. Against the backdrop of a turbulent decade in politics, she reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.
An honest, entertaining and intelligent portrait of a woman in love, Consider Yourself Kissed will capture your heart.
Bookings are essential.
In Conversation with Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix with David Leser.
Robert Dessaix’s Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux: his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in religious thinking, his obsession with all things Russian, his marriage to Lisa and divorce, his discovery of travel. In North Africa he finds different ways of feeling and being, and in Australia he begins his abiding relationship with his partner Peter Timms. At every point he muses on pleasure, art, sex, literature, infatuation, happiness, music, life, death and all the rest.
Chameleon is a virtuoso performance of self-revelation, as Dessaix explores how the restless mind takes constant detours to search for what makes life good, a place of wisdom and love.
Bookings essential.
My New Book
Three writers discuss their latest novels, and the journey from idea to bookstore.
Tim Ayliffe, Andrea Goldsmith, and Jessica Stanley with Laura Macdonald.
In this unforgettable story about what ‘happily ever after’ might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it. Against the backdrop of a turbulent decade in politics, she reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.
An honest, entertaining and intelligent portrait of a woman in love, Consider Yourself Kissed will capture your heart.
Bookings are essential.
Robert Dessaix and Kate Grenville with Jason Steger.
Robert Dessaix’s Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux: his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in religious thinking, his obsession with all things Russian, his marriage to Lisa and divorce, his discovery of travel. In North Africa he finds different ways of feeling and being, and in Australia he begins his abiding relationship with his partner Peter Timms. At every point he muses on pleasure, art, sex, literature, infatuation, happiness, music, life, death and all the rest.
Chameleon is a virtuoso performance of self-revelation, as Dessaix explores how the restless mind takes constant detours to search for what makes life good, a place of wisdom and love.
Bookings are essential.
Join us in the shop to celebrate the release of Jessica Stanley’s second novel, Consider Yourself Kissed.
Coralie grew up in Australia but needed to escape some ghosts. Adrift in London, she meets witty, sexy, generous Adam-and his charming four-year-old daughter. Falling in love is fun. And then? Coralie yearns for children of her own, and to become a writer. In this unforgettable story about what 'happily ever after' might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it, and reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.
Mother, writer, worker, sister, friend, citizen, daughter, wife. If she could be one, perhaps she could manage. Trying to be all, she found she was none.
Coralie has grown up in Australia but needs to escape some ghosts there. At twenty-nine, adrift in London, she meets witty, sexy, generous Adam—and his charming four-year-old daughter. Falling in love is fun, romantic and reassuring. And then?
In this unforgettable story about what ‘happily ever after’ might truly mean, Jessica Stanley writes about life as we live it. Against the backdrop of a turbulent decade in politics, she reveals how our intimate dramas can get tangled up with the public events of our times.
An honest, entertaining and intelligent portrait of a woman in love, Consider Yourself Kissed will capture your heart.
