2024 Bookclubs
THE DEED WITH SUSANNAH BEGBIE TUESDAY, MAY 28TH, 2024
The Deed in conversation with Susannah Begbie
WHEN: TUESDAY, MAY 28TH 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Susannah grew up on a sheep farm in NSW. She moved to Sydney to study medicine and was immediately homesick for a place that smells of dry grass and dust.
She has worked as a GP from Boggabri to Broome, South Coast to Red Centre and a whole lot of places in between.
In 2006, Susannah started a Graduate Diploma in Professional Writing at Canberra University. She may finish it yet.
She was awarded Editor’s Pick for short story ‘Fly to meet you’ in the UCAN First anthology, and best written text for children’s book ‘Don’t You Dare!’ in the Get Real project.
Then she got distracted with a novel idea… ‘The Deed’ took ten years to write. Susannah has recently been awarded the 2022 Richell Prize for emerging writers, and is excited to be working with the Jane Novak Literary Agency.
Shadows of Winter Robins with Louise Wolhuter
WHEN: TUESDAY, JUNE 18TH 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
This is a wonderful, twisty fiction title full of family secrets. Louise Wolhuter is writing the kind of domestic drama that is rich in
character and with a romping plot to boot!
And there it is: that pip of a moment. That instant. That fraction of a second. That weightless stillness at the very top of a ball’s
bounce, between its going up and falling down. My brother and I held hands, suspended somewhere in between the life we’d led as Nancy’s children, and the one we were destined to live thereafter.
Winter Robins is a happy enough child, growing up in the north of England, with parents who love her and the constant companion of a twin brother, but a cold wind blows through when her mother dies. Her father turns to the bottle, her grandmother struggles to cope, and she and her brother are sent to live in Western Australia with family their mother had never mentioned.
Although Winter quickly settles in Australia and comes to love her life and the people in it, she notices strange happenings in the shadows of her new home. When a news story prompts her to look back at her past, she begins to wonder whether things were really as idyllic as she remembers them.
As she uncovers secret after secret, she realises a much darker narrative may have been – and perhaps still is – playing out…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Louise Wolhuter grew up in northern England, moved to Queensland, before settling in Perth to raise a family. She currently works as an Education Assistant in a primary school,
which leaves her early mornings, weekends and school holidays to write. Her debut novel An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb was published in Australia and the UK.
The Home Style Handbook with Lucy Gough
WHEN: TUESDAY, JULY 16TH 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
We all want to live in a home that reflects our personalities and experiences. But if we are not a professional decorator or stylist
where do we start? In this inspirational and helpful handbook, interiors stylist and tutor Lucy Gough will teach you how to understand your true style and how to implement it as you decorate your living space. Your dream home needn’t be a spacious, architecturally designed building – it could be small or rented – and with this book you’ll discover what YOU love so you can surround yourself with the colours, furniture, furnishings and finishing touches that inspire you.
Join us for a lively discussion with Lucy.
All The Missing Children with Zahid Gamieldien
WHEN: TUESDAY, AUGUST 20TH 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Ilene, a working class mother, is struggling to survive and desperate to reconnect with her children, Jack and Lonnie, in the aftermath of a near fatal tragedy.
But her children vanish, setting off a chain reaction within the community.
Suspended detective Omar helps out with the investigation, uncovering disquieting clues, but he keeps getting pulled away by a dangerous cold case.
Benji, a recovering addict, finds peace by breeding lorikeets and caring for his mother, only to have his clean life upended by a stranger’s menacing threat.
Nera, a city lawyer grieving on a country farm, wants to find out who killed one of her animals and is faced with increasingly strange and unsettling answers.
In this gripping tale of human frailty and the otherworldly, each of the characters must confront the mystery of what really happened to Jack and Lonnie.
Man made with Tracey Spicer
WHEN: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 2024 @ 6:45PM (FOR 7PM START)
WHERE: ART BAU GALLERY
1 MITCHELL RD, BROOKVALE
COST:
$30 (includes drinks and refreshments)
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man-Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change.
Winner, 2023 Australian Business Book Awards, Social Responsibility
Longlisted for the 2023 Walkley Book Award
‘Mum, I want a robot slave.’
Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her young son uttered these six words. Suddenly, her life’s work fighting inequality seemed futile. What’s the point in agitating to change the present, if bigotry is being embedded into our futures?
And so began a quest to uncover who was responsible and hold them to account. Who is the ultimate villain? Big Tech, whose titans refuse to spend money to fix the problem? The world’s politicians, who lack the will to legislate? Or should we all be walking into a hall of mirrors and taking a good, hard look at ourselves…?
This is a deeply researched, illuminating and gripping ride into an uncertain future, culminating in a resounding call to action that will shake the tech sector to its foundations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tracey Spicer is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.
The inaugural national convenor of Women in Media, Tracey is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and emcees in the region.
In 2019 she was named the NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year, accepted the Sydney Peace Prize alongside Tarana Burke for the `Me Too’ movement, and won the national award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership through Women & Leadership Australia.
In 2018, Tracey was chosen as one of the Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence, winning the Social Enterprise and Not-For-Profit category. She was also named Agenda Setter of the Year by the website Women’s Agenda.
For her 30 years of media and charity work, Tracey has been awarded the Order of Australia.
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