Events and Speakers – Friends of Emerald Hill Library

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August 9, 2022

Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins – ‘Who needs the ABC?’

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Author/Speaker – Matthew RicketsonWho needs the ABC? Does the ABC have a left-wing bias? Matthew Ricketson and Patrick Mullins in Who Needs the ABC? make an eloquent…

December 20, 2021

Maya Ward – ‘The Comfort of Water’

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Author/Speaker – Maya WardThe Comfort of WaterAUTHORS DISCUSSION ON NOVEL: The Comfort of Water, Maya Ward’s lyrical exploration of her river as it winds through the city…

December 16, 2021

Anson Cameron – ‘Boyhoodlum’

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Author/Speaker – Anson CameronBoyhoodlumAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: A hilarious memoir and a crash-investigator’s report into how not to be a boy. You know those childhood memoirs that…

December 15, 2021

Robert Gott – ‘The Holiday Murders’

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Author/Speaker – Robert GottThe Holiday MurdersAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: Robert Gott has delivered another masterful crime novel steeped in Australia’s past. It’s Christmas 1943 and the authorities…

December 12, 2021

Peter Cotton – ‘Dead Cat Bounce’

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Author/Speaker – Peter CottonDead Cat BounceAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: Dead Cat Bounce:– A federal election campaign is thrown into chaos when a popular government minister goes missing…

December 11, 2021

Jack Mercer – ‘Hard Times’

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Author/Speaker – Jack MercerHard TimesAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: Jack Mercer’s Hard Times is the true story of the author’s amazing adventures. In 1911, growing up in an…

September 16, 2021

Michael Cathcart – ‘The Water Dreamers’

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Author/Speaker – Michael CathcartThe Water DreamersAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country. The Water Dreamers is the…

September 12, 2021

Toni Jordan (‘Fall Girl’) and Kate Holden (‘In My Skin’)

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Author/Speaker – Toni Jordan and Kate Holden'Fall Girl' and 'In My Skin'AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION: Kate Holden, author of the controversial book ‘In My Skin‘, along with award…

July 29, 2021

Adrian Hyland – ‘Gunshot Road’

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Author/Speaker – Adrian HylandGunshot RoadAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan’s tooth and is the woman least likely ever to…

March 21, 2019

Graeme Simsion – ‘The Rosie Project’

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Author/Speaker – Graeme SimsionThe Rosie ProjectAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: An international sensation, this hilarious, feel-good novel is narrated by an oddly charming and socially challenged genetics professor…

August 20, 2018

Catherine de Saint Phalle – ‘Poum and Alexandre’

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Author/Speaker – Catherine de Saint PhallePoum and AlexandreAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of…

August 19, 2018

Paul Cox – ‘Tales from the Cancer Ward’

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Author/Speaker – Paul CoxTales from the Cancer WardAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: ‘To be vulnerable is to live.’ In Tales from the Cancer Ward renowned filmmaker Paul Cox…

June 4, 2017

David Frankel – ‘Between the Murray and the Sea’

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Author/Speaker – David FrankelBetween the Murray and the SeaAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: Emeritus Professor David Frankel was our guest author speaker discussing with us about his book…

May 5, 2017

Kelly Chandler – ‘The Other Mother’

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Author/Speaker – Kelly ChandlerThe Other MotherAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: For Kelly, meeting the right guy was pretty straightforward – becoming a ‘spare mum’ to his two sons…

August 14, 2016

Arnold Zable – ‘Violin Lessons’

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Author/Speaker – Arnold ZableViolin LessonsAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: These are tales of hardship, of yearning and of celebration. A young boy plays the violin for his mother…

April 7, 2016

Leslie Cannold – ‘Book of Rachael’

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Author/Speaker – Leslie CannoldBook of RachaelAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: What if the man you loved betrayed your brother? Two thousand years ago, while a young Jewish preacher…

July 19, 2015

Maria Tumarkin – ‘Otherland’

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Author/Speaker – Maria TumarkinOtherlandAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: I left too early, before tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and before Gorbachev was put under home arrest in…

May 13, 2014

Jenny Donovan – ‘Designing to Heal’

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Author/Speaker – Jenny DonovanDesigning to HealAUTHOR DISCUSSION ABOUT NOVEL: Explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters and how planners and designers can give these communities…