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Wild Dark Shore has been one of the literary highlights of 2025. Join us for this free and fun interactive session with its author – Charlotte McConaghey, fresh from her sold out Sydney Writers

A tender love story and meditation on Blackness and masculinity set in contemporary London. Told in the second person with a lyrical prose that reads like water, Nelson questions what it means to be

I LOVED this book — funny, smart, and strangely moving. Set in ancient Syracuse but written with a modern, Irish street wit, it follows two unemployed potters who decide to put on a Greek

Hard New World: Our Post-American Future; Quarterly Essay 98 by Hugh White Generally speaking Americans no longer want to bear the economic costs of being the world’s policeman, believing their security is not at

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, A True Story of Abduction, Adoption and Separated Twins. A tour de force, in writing and reporting. As part of China’s one-child policy, a baby

The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann’s historical fiction novel, The Director, delves into the life of legendary filmmaker G.W. Pabst. Known for his socially conscious and sexually frank silent movies, Pabst directed Greta

  Our Book of the Month is A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyn. It’s a sensational debut, completely absorbing. “I’ve been telling everyone: You simply must read it. . .it is that good,” says Literary Critic Caroline

Love Art? Love interiors? Join us for an intimate soiree in the private dining room at Elvina.  Join us in welcoming Kym Elphinstone, an arts advisor and advocate with more than 20 years experience

  Sarah Di Lorenzo is a qualified Clinical Nutritionist who has dedicated her career to rejuvenating the health of Australians. The resident of Seven Networks Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise programs is also author of

  Join us for an evening with Dr Gill Hicks, as she shares insights and learnings from 20 years of living differently, with Richard Fidler.  Gill Hicks was the last survivor rescued from the

Culture | Forged in blood The friendship of a Chilean dictator and a Nazi war criminal Philippe Sands traces the connections between Augusto Pinochet and Walter Rauff in his new book Sitting, not in

Peter Craven, The Weekend Australian. 17 May 2025 It’s five years since I reviewed Philippe Sands’s The Ratline but it stays in the mind as few books can. It’s the story of Otto von

‘Lonely mouth is a Japanese expression. It means, you feel like you want to eat something, but you don’t know what it is…Maybe there is no right thing. Maybe you don’t need anything at

Join us for an evening of captivating emotional honesty with Kumi Taguchi in conversation with Julia Baird. Growing up, Kumi Taguchi thought her father was merely distant: reserved, obsessively frugal and – after her

Join us for an insightful and life-affirming evening focussed on finding purpose, meaning and fulfilment with, host of the internationally successful podcast A Life of Greatness. Have you ever felt like you’re hurtling through

Join us on an intimate journey through love, art, history and loss with Christabel Blackman. Daughter of one of Australia’s finest artists, Christabel explores the life of her parents through a moving collection of

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Dear Members of Ray’s Unofficial Book Club, Greetings from New York. I know you want an analysis of how the Trump world looks up close. Let me just say that in a recent NYT

We are delighted to be part of Book People. © Nielsen BookScan for the week ending April 19, 2025 Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games) Collins,Suzanne 2. The Let Them Theory Mel Robbins

We are delighted to be a part of the inaugural Global Book Crawl – a worldwide event for booklovers to support and celebrate their independent bookstores! There are a great prizes and beautiful totes