Upcoming Events
Launches, public talks and festivals
Moreton Bay Regional Libraries & Dymocks North Lakes will host a Literary Wine & Cheese Night with Romy Ash, author of Floundering.
Floundering is a beautifully written and gripping debut novel about two young brothers and their hopeless mother on a road trip across WA. It’s as moving as it is frightening, and as heartbreaking as it is tender.
Free event but please book on: (07) 3351 3401
Arana Hills Library
Cobbity Crescent
Arana Hills
QLD
Chermside Library and QBD Books will host a Literary Morning Tea with Romy Ash, author of Floundering.
Free event but please book on: 07 3403 7263
Chermside Library
375 Hamilton Road
Chermside
QLD
Maroochydore Library and Collins Booksellers Sunshine Plaza will host a wine and cheese night with author, Romy Ash. Romy will be there to discuss her wonderful debut novel, Floundering.
Free event, but please book on (07) 5475 8900
Maroochydore Library
44 Sixth Avenue
Maroochydore
QLD
Hill of Content and Balmain Library invite you to an evening with Romy Ash. Romy will be talking about her fantastic debut novel, Floundering. Wine and cheese will be available.
Free event, but please book on (02) 9555 6055
Hill of Content
275 Darling St
Balmain
NSW
Shane Maloney will discuss his novel, Stiff, with Lindsay Tanner at Ebony Quill Restaurant in Camberwell. Stiff is the first book in the Murray Whelan series and has just been rereleased as a Text Classic.
Free event but bookings essential. Please email: camberwell@dymocks.com.au
Or phone: (03) 9882 0032
Ebony Quill Restaurant
The Well Shopping Centre
793 Burke Road
Camberwell
VIC
Romy Ash will discuss her debut novel, Floundering at a literary morning tea at Cessnock Library, NSW.
Free event, but please book on: 02 4993 4399
Cessnock City Library
65 Vincent Street
Cessnock
NSW
W.H. Chong lives in Melbourne and has designed books for Text Publishing since its inception. He has also designed newspapers, magazines and websites. His jacket for Lloyd Jones’ Hand Me Down World was the 2011 APA winner for The Best Designed Cover of the Year.
Join W.H. Chong for the first in an occasional series on the art and artistry of book design, be it traditional dust-jackets or futuristic visions of books of the future.
In this illustrated talk at the Wheeler Centre, W.H Chong will reveal how he translated complex, much loved classics into celebrated cover art for the Text Classics series.
For enquiries and bookings, visit The Wheeler Centre website.
The Wheeler Centre
176 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne
Victoria
Charlestown Library and Maclean’s Booksellers will host a literary evening with author Romy Ash. Romy will be at the Charlestown Library to discuss her wonderful debut novel, Floundering.
Free event, but please book on (07) 5475 8900
Charlestown Library
cnr Smith & Ridley St
Charlestown
NSW
Book Bazaar Bookshop and Woy Woy Library will host a literary morning tea with author Romy Ash. Romy will be at the Woy Woy Library to discuss her wonderful debut novel, Floundering.
Free event, but please book.
Further details to come.
Concord Library & Dymocks Burwood will host a Literary Afternoon Tea with Romy Ash, author of Floundering.
Floundering is a beautifully written and gripping debut novel about two young brothers and their hopeless mother on a road trip across WA. It’s as moving as it is frightening, and as heartbreaking as it is tender.
Event costs $7 and includes refreshments.
Please book on: (02) 9911 6210
Concord Library
60 Flavelle St
Concord
NSW
Text Publishing and Cinema Nova present a series of classic Australian films on the first Wednesday of each month.
The first to screen is the stunning Careful, He Might Hear You, which won eight Australian Film Institute Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Wendy Hughes), and Best Supporting Actor (John Hargreaves).
Be swept away by this deeply moving production and then join in the after-movie discussion with:
Jill Robb
Phillipa Hawker
Robyn Nevin
Michael Heyward – chair
Films to come include: They’re a Weird Mob, Wake in Fright, My Brilliant Career and Stiff.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.cinemanova.com.au
Join Jacinta Tynan and John O'Grady Jr (Nino Culotta’s son) at the Mosman Library in Sydney as they discuss the Text Classics Series and the re-release of the hugely popular Australian classic, They’re a Weird Mob.
Entry: Adults $10, pensioners and students $8.
To book, please click here or call 02 9978 4091.
Chris Flynn (A Tiger in Eden) will be in-conversation with Alicia Sometimes at the Collingwood Library.
Contact the library for more details
phone: 1300-695-427
email: yarralibraries@yarracity.vic.gov.au
address: 11 Stanton Street, Abbotsford VIC
Join Wayne Macauley (The Cook), Maria Turmarkin and Arabelle Forg at Sunflower Bookshop in Elsternwick, as they discuss our obsession with food.
Please book on: 03 9523 6405
Sunflower Bookshop
434 Glen Huntly Road
Elsternwick
VIC 3185
Broadcaster and former presenter of Radio National’s The Book Show, Ramona Koval, will present the 2012 Redmond Barry Lecture about her new novel, By the book – a reader’s guide to life.
After a long career of reading and talking with some of the most important writers of our times, Ramona is writing her own book. In this lecture during the National Year of Reading, she will take the audience on a tour of her beloved private collection of favourite books.
The annual Redmond Barry Lecture honours the life and work of Sir Redmond Barry (1813–80), founder of the State Library and a key figure in the development of Australia’s cultural and intellectual life.
Bookings required via website. Enquires on: 03 8664 7099
Village Roadshow Theatrette
Entry 3, La Trobe St
VIC 3000
Venue has wheelchair access and hearing loop.
Text Publishing and Cinema Nova present a series of classic films on the first Wednesday of each month.
*They’re a Weird Mob*, starring Walter Chiari, Chips Rafferty and Clare Dunne, was an enormous hit on release in Australia, grossing $2 million at the box office.
Enjoy this charming and comic adaptation of Nino Culotta’s classic novel and the panel discussion afterward.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.cinemanova.com.au
Gerald Murnane (The Plains) and Wayne Macauley (The Cook) will be in-conversation with Will Heyward at Readings St Kilda. The Plains has just been rereleased as part of the Text Classics series.
For more information and to book, please call: (03) 9525 3852
or visit www.readings.com.au
Readings St Kilda
112 Acland Street
St Kilda
VIC
Text Publishing and Cinema Nova present a series of classic films on the first Wednesday of each month.
Don’t miss the first, and arguably the best, outback horror film. Too shocking for audiences when it was first released in 1971, Wake In Fright disappeared, only to be re-released in 2009.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.cinemanova.com.au
Text Publishing and Cinema Nova present a series of classic films on the first Wednesday of each month.
Don’t miss the first, and arguably the best, outback horror film. Too shocking for audiences when it was first released in 1971, Wake In Fright disappeared, only to be re-released in 2009.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.cinemanova.com.au
Text Publishing and Cinema Nova present a series of classic films on the first Wednesday of each month.
Enjoy Judy Davis' inspired performance as the headstrong Sybylla Melvyn in My Brilliant Career, a visual feast directed by Gillian Armstrong (1979).
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.cinemanova.com.au
Text Publishing and Cinema Nova present a series of classic films on the first Wednesday of each month.
Written and directed by John Clarke and starring David Wenham as Murray Whelan, Stiff is a fabulous romp set in and around Brunswick, Melbourne.
For more information and to buy tickets, visit www.cinemanova.com.au
