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I grabbed my biggest teddy bear a reward? This event is supported 9/11, Ian Klaus, a HB, $24.95) is a and lifted up the blind, And what I by the Melbourne Jewish Museum. 26-year-old Rhodes beautiful read- saw was so unreal it nearly blew my Wednesday 11 June, 6.30pm, Scholar, found aloud story. Like mind! Thus begins the story of The Readings Hawthorn. Free, himself, in the Five Little Owls, Pumpkin Eater from Pondicherry, a please book on 9819 1917. spring of 2005, in Arbil, the largest The Gobbling Tree is a book to voracious creature known to travel city in Iraqi Kurdistan. There, in the treasure. Join us for the story and considerable distances for a decent 12 thick of war, Klaus spent a semester for songs with Mark. Suitable for GEORGE feed of pumpkins. But when the teaching US history and English young children. Saturday 7 MEGALOGENIS beast turns up late at night in at Salahaddin University. But what June, 2pm, Readings Port Join Barry Cassidy, Grandad’s vegie patch, the young started as a journey in search of Melbourne. Free, but please host of the ABC narrator must act quickly if he is knowledge for his students became book on 9681 9255. Insiders program going to save his Grandad’s prize a road of discovery for the author and regular Insiders pumpkins. Written by Melbourne as well. Elvis is Titanic:Tales from 7 SHAUN TAN contributors author Bruce Atherton and il- the Other Iraq (UWA Press, PB, Meet Shaun Tan George Megalo- lustrated by Ben Redlich, this is $26.965) is his book. Monday as he talks about genis and Annabel Crabbe as they a fabulous fable about monstrous 2 June, 6.30pm, Readings his art, his ideas discuss Australian politics and the greed and childhood ingenuity. Carlton. Free, but please book and his beautiful new updated edition of George’s Join us for a story reading and a on 9347 6633. new book book The Longest Decade (Scribe, morning tea of muffins. Saturday Tales from PB, $29.95). ‘[George Megalogenis] 14 June, 10am, Readings Port 3 GROWING UP ASIAN Outer Suburbia (A&U, HB, $35). has done something quite remark- Melbourne. Free, but please IN AUSTRALIA A rare and wonderful opportunity able ... This book is a brilliant book by calling 9681 9255. Join the editor of for the whole family. primer for those who wish to Growing up Asian Saturday 7 June, 2pm, understand the Keating years 17 ANN GALBALLY and Australia under Howard.’ in Australia (Black Readings Hawthorn. IN CONVERSATION WITH — Weekend Australian. Inc., PB, $27.95), Free, please book on 9819 1917. CORRIE PERKIN Alice Pung and Thursday 12 June, 6.30pm, Journalist Corrie Readings Hawthorn. local contributors 9 AUSTRALIAN Perkin will talk Free, please book on 98191 1917. Tom Cho, Tony Ayres and INSTITUTE OF with Ann Galbally Shalini Akhil, as they discuss this INTERNATIONAL about Ann’s new 13 PETER COMBE irreverent collection with Triple J’s AFFAIRS FORUM book A Remarkable John Safran. Alice Pung is a Join us for a glass of wine Meet Peter Combe, famous for Friendship (MUP, writer and lawyer. Her bestselling and a discussion about his songs Wash Your Face in Orange HB, $49.95) is a memoir Unpolished Gem won international issues Juice, Juicy Juicy Green Grass and fascinating story the 2007 Newcomer of the Year affecting Australia. This month, Newspaper Mama, as he signs about John Peter Russell and award and was short-listed for a we will discuss The Bottom Billion copies of his new DVD/CD Live Vincent Van Gogh. Both were number of awards, including the by Paul Collier (OUP, HB, $44.95). at the Jive. Come along and revisit foreigners in the competitive art NSW Premier’s Literary Award This book covers global poverty, your childhood, or bring the kids world of Paris in the 1880s, and and the Victorian Premier’s Liter- which Collier argues is actually fall- and introduce them to this icon over the next two years, both would ary Award. Tom Cho is a writer ing quite rapidly. The real crisis lies of Australian children’s music. discover a passion for colour whose stories have appeared in in a group of about 50 failing states, Friday 13 June, 6.15pm, painting. With a supporting cast Readings Hawthorn. HEAT and the Best Australian Sto- the bottom billion, whose problems including Gauguin, Rodin, Monet Free, please book on 9819 1917. ries series. Tony Ayres wrote and defy traditional approaches to al- and Matisse, this is a journey directed the feature film The leviating poverty. He contends that through the struggles and failures, 14 Home Song Stories (2007) and these failed states pose the core chal- HARVEST LAUNCH plots and intrigues of artistic life. directed Walking on Water (2002). lenge of the developing world in Harvest is a new Melbourne-based Tuesday 17 June, 6.30pm, He has written and directed the twenty-first century. Monday quarterly magazine for writers and Readings Carlton. numerous television dramas, short 9 June, 6.30pm, Readings readers. It publishes fiction, non- Free, book on 9347 6633. films and documentaries. Carlton. Free, no need to book. fiction, poetry and art from writers Shalini Akhil is a writer who has and artists around Australia. Harvest 19 ARNOLD ZABLE dabbled in stand-up comedy. 11 MORRIS GLEITZMAN magazine is based on the premise IN CONVERSATION WITH She has had work published in Morris Gleitzman is one of Austra- that writing is a craft, and our CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS Meanjin, Girls Night In 4, the lia’s most successful authors. His editors work closely with emerging Arnold Zable will talk about his Sleepers Almanac and The Age. book Once is the story of friend- artists to help them develop their new novel Sea of Many Returns with Her first novel is The Bollywood ship and survival in a world of war work. Harvest have said: ‘We’re Christos Tsiolkas, author of Loaded Beauty (Penguin, PB, $22.95). and terror. Critically acclaimed, enthusiastic about literature, new and Dead Europe. Sea of Many Tuesday 3 June, 6.30pm, Once also became a bestseller and writing and independent media. Returns (Text, PB, $32.95) explores Sidney Myer Asia Centre, has won awards from adults and But most importantly, we love a the nostalgia of those who’ve left Melbourne University, Sw- children, both here and overseas. good read.’ Saturday 14 June, their homeland for the promise of anston St, Asialink. Free, but Then continues the deeply moving 3pm, Readings Carlton. a new life. It is a is a profound please book on 9347 6633. story of Felix and Zelda and their Free, no need to book. meditation on displacement, nos- 2 talgia and exile – a story that that Free, but please reserve a seat, by affirms the enduring resonance of sending an email to Asialink Events SPECIAL EVENT SERIES the Odyssey for voyagers of all times. at [email protected] THE ALFRED DEAKIN LECTURES Thursday 19 June, 6.30pm, with ‘Passage to India’ in the header. Readings is proud to be the official Resilience Rules. A session on the Readings Carlton. Free, but booksellers at this year’s Deakin possibility of preserving the best in please book on 9347 6633. 28 BOB GRAHAM Lecture series. The 2008 series our society as the planet changes. Start your school ‘From DNA to Deep Space’ is 2pm, BMW Edge, Federation 21 GARTH NIX holidays with Bob. taking place in Melbourne and Square. Tuesday 10 June. We are excited to have Garth Nix Bob will be regional Victoria from Wednesday Planning Cities of the Future. in the shop. Garth, best known for reading from his 4 June to Sunday 15 June.