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This year’s program their 2017 End of Financial Year Appeal winners on the night included The Dry by features leading Australian voices, including and we encourage our readers to donate at Readings donates 10% of its profits each Jane Harper (Gold ABIA for Book of the Randa Abdel-Fattah, Maxine Beneba Clarke, refugeelegal.org.au/donate. A tax deductible year to The Readings Foundation: Year), Working Class Boy by Jimmy Barnes Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, and creator gift of more than $2 made before June 30 readings.com.au/the-readings-foundation (Biography Book of the Year), The 78 Storey and editor-in-chief of global website Muslim will be matched by Gandel Philanthropy. READINGS MONTHLY JUNE 2017 3 June Events SHEILA 10 FITZPATRICK IN July SAMAH SABAWI HARRY POTTER CONVERSATION 5 AND STEPHEN 26 TRIVIA NIGHT WITH JOY DAMOUSI ORLOV Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is International authors Samah Sabawi and turning 20! We’re celebrating with a special Join world-renowned historian Sheila Stephen Orlov co-edited Double Exposure: Harry Potter trivia night at our Hawthorn Fitzpatrick (a Russian specialist) to talk Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas, shop, with a fan quiz, prizes and a sorting about her new, unusually personal history: the first English-language anthology in any hat that will assign you to a Hogwarts house. Mischka’s War, about her late husband. genre of prose, poetry or drama by Jewish and Put on your favourite Harry Potter costume, Mischka Danos (who later learned he was Palestinian writers worldwide. We are thrilled board at platform 9 ¾ (or, you know, take a part Jewish) escaped conscription into the to host them reading from their plays and tram or your car) and join your fellow Harry Waffen-SS in 1943 by going on a student talking about the anthology they co-edited. Potter fans.