Hobart Bookshop
Join us at our next launch…
We welcome you to the launch, by Liz Winfield, of Tony Brennan’s new book A Beauty that Catches.
This is Tony’s first collection of poetry, though he has been published and is also a professional musician (hint: if you’re lucky you’ll get some bonus live music at the launch!). Poet Karen Knight says that ‘Brennan’s poems offer a refreshing perspective on the deep value of life and the beauty that surrounds us. His honest approach and simple observations alert us to the importance of being. Thumbs up to this first collection from an interesting, emerging poet.’
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: Thursday November 3, from 5.30pm
Free event, all welcome.
… and our next launch …
We welcome you to the launch, by Jen Gibson, of Betty McKenzie-Tubb’s new book Meanderings, published by Ginninderra Press.
Betty McKenzie-Tubb has been scribbling since youth, beginning with contributions to the Sydney Morning Herald and to the ABC radio programme The Argonauts. She was Ancona 49 and wrote regularly to ‘Anthony Inkwell’. Degrees in Education and Arts have helped nourish her writing. She spent most of her working life as a teacher of the deaf, for whom the door to literacy is sometimes difficult to open. She is grateful to Montaigne, the father of the personal essay. Reading his works and those of contemporary essayists has been a source of great pleasure and inspiration.
‘Betty’s musings are hugely entertaining. They range from the sublime to the ridiculous. These bright rays of self-deprecating wit embrace perceptive observations of our mixed-up world.’ – Jen Gibson
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: Wednesday November 9, from 5.30pm
Free event, all welcome.
… and don’t forget our special event THIS WEEKEND …
We are very excited to host a special event to celebrate the release of Holly Throsby’s first novel, Goodwood.
Holly Throsby will be in conversation with ABC radio’s Melanie Tait here in our own little bookshop for a relaxing Sunday afternoon chat. Join us to listen to their discussion and buy your copy of the novel (if you haven’t already; we’ve now got it in stock in the shop!) — Holly will be available for signing after the conversation.
About Goodwood …
It wasn’t just one person who went missing, it was two people. Two very different people. They were there, and then they were gone, as if through a crack in the sky. After that, in a small town like Goodwood, where we had what Nan called ‘a high density of acquaintanceship’, everything stopped. Or at least it felt that way. The normal feeling of things stopped… Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. It’s a place where it’s impossible to keep a secret… In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood’s most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home… People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don’t just disappear… As the intensity of speculation about the fates of Rosie and Bart heightens, Jean, who is keeping secrets of her own, and the rest of Goodwood are left reeling…
Rich in character and complexity, its humour both droll and tender, Goodwood is a compelling ride into a small community, torn apart by dark rumours and mystery.
About Holly Throsby…
Holly Throsby is a songwriter, musician and novelist from Sydney, Australia. She has released four critically acclaimed solo albums, a collection of original children’s songs, and an album as part of the band, Seeker Lover Keeper. Goodwood is Holly’s debut novel.
About Melanie Tait …
Melanie TaitMelanie Tait is a broadcaster and author. She’s been writing since she could pick up a pencil and is the author of Fat Chance: My Big Fat Gastric Band Adventure (New Holland, 2010) and the playwright behind The Vegemite Tales.
After beginning her radio career as a producer on the John Laws Morning Show, Melanie moved to the ABC as a rural reporter in Darwin. For the first few years of her ABC career she travelled all over Australia for ABC Rural, ABC News and ABC Local Radio. She’s enjoyed stints as a presenter on 105.7 ABC Darwin, 702 ABC Sydney and on national programs right around Australia.
Melanie is currently the presenter for ABC 936 Evenings.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: Sunday October 23rd, at 3pm
Free event, all welcome.
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