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Read Readings Monthly, February 2015 Here FREE FEBRUARY 2015 BOOKS MUSIC FILM EVENTS THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2015 NEW IN FEBRUARY MIRANDA KELLY SAMANTHA THE BELLE & JULY LINK TRENOWETH FALL SEBASTIAN $24.99 $21.95 $29.99 $27.95 $29.95 page 7 page 18 page 7 page 12 page 14 READINGS MONTHLY FEBRUARY 2015 3 News THE READINGS FOUNDATION Project on 13 February at Testing Grounds, winners and overall Book of the Year winner GRANTS ANNOUNCED an exciting outdoor arts space and will be announced on Wednesday 25 March. The Readings Foundation has announced Melbourne CBD’s greenest creative hub. grants totalling $113,880 to support a The program incorporates free screenings 20% OFF DK EYEWITNESS range of projects and organisations within on the big screen at Federation Square, TRAVEL GUIDES Victoria in 2015. The successful grant before moving to Cinema Nova until 6 recipients for this year are: March. Readings is a proud supporter Back from summer holidays and already planning your next trip? Luckily, we Somebody’s Daughter Theatre ($10,000) of the Transitions Film Festival. Please are offering 20% off our range of DK Reading Out of Poverty ($16,000) visit transitionsfilmfestival.com for more Eyewitness Travel Guides from 1–28 Mallee Family Care ($20,000) information. February. This fantastic offer includes Asylum Seeker Resource Centre ($15,000) travel guides and phrase books. The sale Migrant Information Centre ($2,880) READINGS BOOK CLUBS is on in-stock items only while stocks Aboriginal Literacy Foundation ($10,000) The Queer Book Club is back at Readings last at all Readings shops and online at The Wheeler Centre Hot Desk St Kilda for 2015, dedicated to fiction and readings.com.au. Fellowships ($20,000) select non-fiction books that represent HUSH Music Foundation ($5,000) aspects of LGBTIQ life. For more Readings will also continue to support information about the book club, or to ST KILDA FESTIVAL 2015 the Sacred Heart Mission in St Kilda and make a booking, please contact Amy at The St Kilda Festival is on again from 31 The Brotherhood of St Laurence’s HIPPY Readings St Kilda on 03 9525 3852 or January to 8 February 2015, celebrating (Home Interaction Program for Parents [email protected]. summer outdoors and the leading lights of and Youngsters) in Fitzroy with a $5,000 The Non-Fiction Book Club is also coming the local music scene. Readings St Kilda is donation to each. back to Readings St Kilda this year. For more proud to host one of the festival’s Live N Please visit readings.com.au/news/ information or to make a booking, please Local events – visit stkildafestival.com.au the-readings-foundation-grant- contact Gerard at Readings St Kilda on 03 for the full program. recipients-announced-for-2015 for more 9525 3852 or [email protected]. information on each funded project. Readings Monthly Free independent monthly newspaper published by Readings Books, Music & Film Editor Elke Power [email protected] Editorial Assistant Bronte Coates [email protected] Advertising Stella Charls [email protected] (03) 9341 7739 Graphic Design WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE INDIE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLIST Cat Matteson AT READINGS STATE LIBRARY Showcasing another year of great [email protected] On Saturday 21 February, Readings’ Australian writing, the Indie Book Awards State Library shop will be open until have announced the category shortlists Contributors midnight as part of the Melbourne White for the best Australian books of 2014. The Miriam Sved Night celebrations, where Melbourne’s shortlisted titles for the fiction categories streets, laneways and cultural institutions are When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett Front Cover are transformed into a cultural (Hachette Australia), Amnesia by Peter This month’s cover features a range of cover playground from dusk to dawn. Visit Carey (Penguin Books Australia), Golden images for titles due to be published in 2015 whitenightmelbourne.com.au for more Boys by Sonya Hartnett (Penguin Books by Australian-based publishers. Please note information about the festivities. Australia) and The Rosie Effect by Graeme that image inclusion was based on cover Simsion (Text Publishing). The debut availablity at print deadline. fiction shortlist includes Lost & Found TRANSITIONS FILM FESTIVAL by Brooke Davis (Hachette Australia), Cartoon The Transitions Film Festival returns Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clark Oslo Davis this February, with an inspiring program oslodavis.com (Hachette Australia), The Strays by Emily showcasing groundbreaking features, Bitto (Affirm Press) and After Darkness Readings donates 10% of its profits each shorts and documentaries about the by Christine Piper (Allen & Unwin). Find year to The Readings Foundation: transition to a better world. The festival out more about the shortlists for other readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation launches with Inside Out: The People’s Art categories at indies.com.au. The category abc.net.au/adelaide 4 READINGS MONTHLY FEBRUARY 2015 February Events QUENTIN BRYAN LEANNE HALL 11 BERESFORD IN 19 STEVENSON 26 LAUNCHES CONVERSATION ON JUST MERCY ANDREW Bryan Stevenson presents WITH JOHN VAN MCDONALD’S SON TIGGELEN a lecture on racial inequality and the broken American justice system, OF DEATH Quentin Beresford will discuss his incisive new following the launch of his latest book, Leanne Hall will launch Andrew non-fiction book The Rise and Fall of Gunns New York Times bestseller Just Mercy: McDonald’s new children’s novel, Son of Ltd and the political and environmental stakes A Story of Justice and Redemption. Death – the darkly funny tale of Sod, a in the ongoing Tasmanian forestry wars, with teenage Grim Reaper who would much author and journalist John van Tiggelen. Free, but please book at events.unimelb.edu.au/events/4730-just-mercy rather play guitar with his band than guide Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Thursday 19 February, 6pm souls to the afterlife. Wednesday 11 February, 6.30pm Derham Theatre, Melbourne Law School Free, no booking required. Readings Carlton 185 Pelham Street, Carlton Thursday 26 February, 6.30pm Readings Carlton PETER TWOHIG BENNY LEWIS ON 17 ON THE TORCH 19 LANGUAGE Fresh from the Adelaide Festival, HACKING the author of The Cartographer Benny Lewis only spoke English until the will discuss his new novel, The Torch. age of 21 – now he speaks 11 languages, 7 of them fluently. For the past decade, Benny Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events has travelled the world, immersing himself Tuesday 17 February, 6pm in local cultures. Benny will share his Readings Hawthorn BELLE ROSCOE AT techniques for ‘language hacking’ from his popular blog, and best-selling book, Fluent in 3 ST KILDA FESTIVAL 3 months. Get your blue suede shoes on and join in the Live N Local series as Belle Roscoe perform Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events from their new album Boom Boom – a Thursday 19 February, 6pm wonderful indie pop-rock sound that is the Readings Hawthorn embodiment of summer itself. Free, no booking required. SIR HENRY NEVILLE, Tuesday 3 February, 6pm 19 ALIAS WILLIAM Readings St Kilda SHAKESPEARE Join us for the launch of Mark Bradbeer VANESSA ALFORD and John Casson’s Sir Henry Neville, Alias ON BEING FIT NOT William Shakespeare, which analyses 4 Shakespeare’s history plays and their HEALTHY controversial place in the Elizabethan Join us for the launch of Vanessa Alford’s political landscape new memoir Fit Not Healthy, the eye- Free, no booking required. opening story of how the author’s obsession Thursday 19 February, 6.30pm with fitness almost destroyed her body and Readings Carlton chances of having a family. Free, no booking required. STORYTIME WITH JOHN DARNIELLE Wednesday 4 February, 6pm 21 CHRISSIE PERRY 26 IN CONVERSATION Readings Hawthorn BOOK SIGNING Local author Chrissie Perry (Go Girl) joins WITH GERARD 17 WITH JULIA ELSON TONY WALKER AND us at St Kilda for a signing and to read from DONALDSON her newest book, Penelope Perfect: Project 5 HARRISON YOUNG Musician and author John Darnielle And into the woods we go! Come and get Best Friend about the anxious but endearing (The Mountain Goats) discusses Tony Walker will launch Harrison Young’s your book signed, and meet the author of Penelope Kingston’s mission to find a best his writing, music and critically- new novel Submission, a smart and sexy The Gruffalo. Please note: Julia will sign friend. acclaimed debut novel Wolf In White blend of historical fiction and romance set in books purchased on the day as well as one Free, no booking required Van with Readings’ own Gerard Elson. the Middle Eastern desert in the 1980s. book from home. Saturday 21 February, 10.30am Free, but please book at readings.com.au/events Readings St Kilda Free, no booking required Free, no booking required. Thursday 26 February, 6.30pm Thursday 5 February, 6.30pm Tuesday 17 February, 10am Readings St Kilda Readings Hawthorn Readings Carlton NICOLE JENKINS 23 ON FASHION TERRENCE HOLT HILDA THE FURY: WOMEN Nicole Jenkins has been collecting and 27 IN CONVERSATION 7 MONKEY DOES 18 WRITE ABOUT restoring clothes since she was a child. With WITH KAREN YOGA WITH SEX, POWER AND a background in film and theatre costume HITCHCOCK & design, her Melbourne boutique Circa LOUISE GODFREY VIOLENCE Vintage, showcasing the best of 200 years of PROFESSOR PAUL Come and join local author Louise Godfrey Rosie Batty will launch the essay collection Australian fashion, opened in 2004. Over a KOMESAROFF for a relaxing and mindful morning session Fury: Women Write About Sex, Power and glass of wine, hear Nicole talk about fashion Join critically-acclaimed doctor and writer of yoga, perfect for the start of the hectic Violence, edited by Samantha Trenoweth.
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