Hobart Bookshop
We welcome you to the launch, by historian Henry Reynolds, of John Williams’ new book Deutschland über Allah!
John Williams has carefully examined the German sources in relation to the Gallipoli campaign and the First World War as a whole. Among other revelations, his book also details the story of the evacuation and eventual fate of Gallipoli’s 2000-year-old Greek community during that extraordinary conflict.
Williams was a historian and a photographer whose other books include Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913-1939(1995), Anzacs, the Media and the Great War, 1914-1918 (1999), German Anzacs and the First World War (2003) and Corporal Hitler and the Great War, 1914-1918 (2005). His photographic exhibitions include Australian Correspondences, Historial de la Grande Guerre, Peronne, France (1998) and ‘From the Flatlands’, a part of Flanders Then and Now, Australian War Memorial (1986).
You can find more information about the book at the Australian Scholarly Publishing website.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: Wednesday October 26, from 5.30pm
Free event, all welcome.
… and then come back the next night for our next launch …
We welcome you to the launch, by Pete Hay, of Andrew Sant’s new book How to Proceed.
The essays in this mischievously titled collection, How to Proceed, are, in the authors own words, ‘apparently offhand, informal, digressive and unashamedly personal’. Perhaps, he suggests in the introduction, they are not really essays at all. They explore subjects ranging from the nature of time to the pleasures (and pitfalls) of walking, the mysteries of marriage to the matter of taking risks. Trust is scrutinized and the gaining of self-knowledge tested. Always lively, often amusing, sometimes poignant, these verbal excursions make clear that, in most circumstances, discovering how to proceed is rarely less than tricky. Written with a poet’s eye for detail – the author is a distinguised poet – this collection, whether focusing on the perils of modern transport or the potential satisfactions of curiosity, contains many surprising departures.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: Thursday October 27, from 5.30pm
Free event, all welcome.
… and some other dates for your diary …
We still have a few more launches lined up before the holiday season — please keep these dates in your diary and keep an eye on our website, and we’ll be sending launch invitations for these too, so you won’t miss out!
Thursday November 3 (evening): Launch of A Beauty that Catches by Tony Brennan
Wednesday November 9 (evening): Launch of Meanderings by Betty McKenzie-Tubb
Hobart Bookshop …
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