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Meet Australia's expert on the Aussie backyard! Best known for his years as the TV host of Burke’s Backyard, Don Burke has now produced the bible for organic gardening, and growing organic food, providing a step by step guide to setting up a beautiful flourishing vegie patch. His new book ‘Organic’ ... (näytä lisää tietoja)is full of comprehensive information and beautiful photos, and covers involving the kids in the garden, recognising and dealing with the pests and insects that love organic produce as much as we do, and enhancing the organic nature of our yard with additions such as chooks and alternative vegetable varieties. Don will be signing copies of ‘Organic’ in store– don’t miss your opportunity to drop in and say hi, and put a signed copy under the Christmas tree for the gardener in your family! Cost: Free

Join Barry Dickins as he reads from his new book Unparalleled Sorrow: Finding my way back from depression, recently launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival. Barry will speak of his path to depression and his road out of it, followed by a general discussion about this topic. Bookings essential, phone ... (näytä lisää tietoja)1300 655 355.

Neal wil talk of his new book - Rare Bird of Truth. Do steel yourself, gird your loins, up your medication and roll with the punches in the wildest literary rollick since Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr Ripley and the most harrowing tale of tainted love since Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal. Should ... (näytä lisää tietoja)be a fun afternoon! Neal Drinnan was born in Melbourne, Australia, sometime in the 1960s. At seventeen he abandoned caution and family life for the lure of life's more ephemeral things. He has worked in publishing and journalism for many years. He is the author of four novels-Glove Puppet, Pussy's Bow, Quill and the LAMDA award winning Izzy & Eve-as well as The Rough Guide to Gay and Lesbian Australia. Readers who find themselves shocked by the morality of his tales should perhaps spare a thought for the author and his diligent research. Drinnan is generally polite, well-spoken, and well-read (although not necessarily well-behaved) and-like vodka in tonic-he mixes freely and sometimes even glows in the dark.

The highly successful Page to Picture series continues in 2010 with the much anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer prize winning novel, THE ROAD. Please join us for a pre-release screening of John Hillcoat’s film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, followed by a discussion ... (näytä lisää tietoja)with Australian arts, publishing and film luminaries. Please join Marieke Hardy (Triple J breakfast radio, ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club & The Age), Film Critic and author Thomas Caldwell (The Big Issue & author of Film Analysis Handbook), Director Ana Kokkinos (Head On, Blessed) and author, academic and online artist Dr. Justin Clemens, to debate the timeless question, which is better the book or the movie? 3.30pm-6.30pm A pre-release screening to precede the panel discussion. All tickets $16.50.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

For one night in Melbourne only! Alexander McCall Smith is the creator of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of books featuring the kind-hearted and sensible Precious Ramotswe. Set in Botswana, the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series has sold over a million books in Australia and Alexander ... (näytä lisää tietoja)McCall Smith is one of our best selling and best loved authors. Like his characters he is a wise, witty and warm man full of infectious good humour and very funny observations on the everyday occurrences in life. Join Alexander McCall Smith as he speaks about his life in Edinburgh (he lives on the same street as J K Rowling and Ian Rankin), the Really Terrible Orchestra (he plays shocking oboe) and of course all the characters and comings and goings at the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, where a little charm, a dash of drama, a lot of kindness and a cup of bush tea go a long way. Tickets - $40 per person and includes a signed first edition copy of The Double Comfort Safari Club: The Number One Ladies Detective Agency Book 11. Tickets available at all Readings shops and online.

In David Carlin’s Our Father Who Wasn’t There he askes can a memoir begin without memories? When David Carlin was six months old, his father, Brian, died. It was the 1960s in isolated Western Australia, a place in which emotions were discreetly veiled, women did not attend funerals — and suicide ... (näytä lisää tietoja)was a sin. Brian became a mysteriously absent figure in David’s family story, hardly spoken of again. In this masterfully rendered memoir, David moves like a ghost through time and place, deftly weaving a story from what he has always known, and from all that he will never know. David Carlin teaches media production and writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. Free, no need to book

Andrew Robb MP will launch by Niki’s book So Greek. From one of the most senior correspondents in the Canberra Press Gallery comes a rare account of life as a political insider. Despite all the challenges of being a migrant woman in Australia, Savva had risen through the ranks of political journalism ... (näytä lisää tietoja)at The Australian, and had gone on to head the Canberra bureaus of both the Melbourne Herald Sun and The Age. Then in 1997, family tragedy struck, and she was forced to reassess her career. In spite of her own Labor convictions, she became Liberal treasurer Peter Costello’s press secretary, a role that she kept for six years before moving on to join John Howard’s staff. This is one of the few books about Australian political life written by an insider with decades of exposure to its major players. Hilarious, moving, and endlessly fascinating, Savva’s is a story that moves between countries. Free, but please RSVP to Emma Morris on (03) 9349 5955.

$17.00 per ticket, $15* (*conditions apply) Unreserved seating All tickets must be purchased at the time of booking. Please note: some seating is upstairs.

$17.00 per ticket, $15* (*conditions apply) Unreserved seating All tickets must be purchased at the time of booking. Please note: some seating is upstairs.