The Hobart Bookshop
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch of tof Ray Glickman’s new book, Frenzship.
Imagine a world where people no longer choose their friends. Two school friends, different in every respect, drift apart in search of themselves. One flits from dodgy deal to get-rich-quick scheme while the other fights for freedom and justice. The psychosocial media app, frenzship, takes the world by storm, revolutionising the very meaning of friendship and propelling the old friends onto a collision course. Is frenzship the reinvention of true friendship and meaningful relationships for the information age or a dangerous cult bending the minds of the young and impressionable?The friends’ schoolboy pact is invoked. Will their friendship transcend the conflict? Does a mate come running no matter what?
Ray Glickman was shortlisted for the 2016 WA Premier’s Award for his debut book, Reality.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: 5.30pm, Wednesday November 15th
Free event, all welcome.
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch, by Megan Weston, of Irene Cowell’s new book, Rainbow Island: Tapestry of Time, published by Forty South Publishing.
Gabi opens his inheritance and is plunged into a fantastical chaotic world – the world of the Hidden. He travels through time; history collides with mythology. He means to protect his family but the heroic exploits of the Hidden face an irreconcilable threat to Rainbow Island.
In 2009, at the time when the stark reminder of mortality presented itself to Irene Cowell, and complications with friendships and family appeared insurmountable, traumatic memories surfaced and became intertwined with the local history of Bruny Island. Irene’s imagination was seized by a powerful image, the Empress of Time. The landscape of a story emerged, peopled with a cast of characters, their lives caught within the machinations of the Empress and her Daughter. The need to write about this interplay of characters became so necessary that she began to write its story. It is a fantasy, but steeped in the colours of reality. The locality: Rainbow Island – the story: Tapestry of Time.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: 5.30pm, Thursday November 23rd
Free event, all welcome.
And don’t forget …
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to the launch of the second book in LF McDermott’s Garth Trilogy, Perseverance.
Garth is an historical trilogy: 3 novels based upon the lives of 5 generations of the Garth and Bellett families. It begins with four convicts, three transported on the First Fleet and one on the Second, from England to Port Jackson, then to Norfolk Island and later to Tasmania and beyond. The tale of the Garths and Belletts provides an insight into the lives of pioneers in early post 1788 Australia and the growth of a nation. You will experience with them their fears, anticipation, joy and sadness as they discover what makes them who they are.
To read more about LF McDermott and the Garth series, please visit the website.
Where: The Hobart Bookshop, 22 Salamanca Square
When: 5.30pm, Thursday November 9th
Free event, all welcome.
Happy reading,
The Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart, Tas 7000
Australia
