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Set against the backdrop Australia (Harper- story of an extraordinary uproar 2.45pm for 3pm sharp, State on e of Georgian England, the story of Collins, HB, already passing into myth. Drawing Library at the Village Road- with the First Fleet is one of courage, Normally $49.95, on key documents, and the show Theatrette (Entry 3, La subj of short-sightedness, of tragedy Our special price revealing testimony of many of the Trobe Street). Free, but please but, above all, of extraordinary $39.95) by principal players, including Bill book on 9347 6633. 15 resilience. It is also, of course, the award-winning Henson himself, Marr writes of a story of the very first European historian David Day is the story of nation divided and a witch-hunt Australians, reluctant pioneers who Australia’s first elected Labor Prime 13 AUSTRALIAN Chri that went wrong. glob traveled into the unknown. In 1788 Minister. Prime Minister Andrew INSTITUTE OF Thursday 9 October, 7pm, Toky (Heinemann, PB, Normally $34.99, Fisher was one of Australia’s great INTERNATIONAL Cinema Nova, Carlton. Free, to M Our special price $29.99), using nation-builders, yet his story is AFFAIRS but please book on 9347 6633. diaries, letters and official records, largely – and unjustly – unknown. See our website for recip David Hill artfully reconstructs the Join us for an interesting journey details of this monthly a sen experiences of these famous and through past times. Wednesday 10 PATTI SMITH forum: www.readings. HB, infamous men and women of his- 8 October, 6.30pm, Readings We are honoured com.au. Monday 13 October, price tory, combining narrative skill with Carlton. Free, but please book on to have legendary 6.30pm, Readings Carlton. insp an eye for detail and an exceptional 9347 6633. singer/songwriter Free, no need to book. your empathy with the people of the past. Patti Smith join us of A Monday 6 October, 6.30pm, prior to her Her 8 KATE GRENVILLE 14 GEOFF BOUCHER Readings Carlton. Free, but performances at in th Daniel Rooke, a & MATT SHARPE please book on 9347 6633. the Melbourne International Arts nate young lieutenant, The Honourable Festival to talk about her creative ing r arrives in New John Cain will influences. Friday 10 October, from 6 KATHY LETTE South Wales on the launch The Times 1pm, Readings Carlton. Free, Lond Set in Sydney’s First Fleet in 1788, Will Suit Them but please book on 9347 6633. and Cronulla, Kathy’s and sets up an (A&U, PB, $35). Rest new book To Love, observatory away from the main This book digs 2007 Honour and Betray: camp, to begin the scientific work 10 IAN GAWLER behind the 6.30 Till Divorce Us Do that will make him famous. In 1984 Gawler wrote what has headlines to explain Book Part (Bantam, PB, Aboriginal people soon start to visit become a legendary bestseller. You the success of Howard’s radical new wine Normally $32.95, Our special price his isolated promontory, and a child Can Conquer Cancer has sold over conservatism. It shows how the Plea $27.95) is a laugh-out-loud read. named Tagaran begins to teach him 200,000 copies in 13 languages Howard government and its small Join Kathy, author of Puberty Blues, her language. An extraordinary and continues to inspire people all legion of culture warriors responded 15 as she takes us on her journey. friendship forms, and Rooke has over the world. Today Ian Gawler to deep changes engendered by two Monday 6 October, 6.30pm, almost forgotten he is a soldier is a world-renowned healer and his decades of economic reform by Brou Readings Hawthorn. Free, but when a man is fatally wounded in Gawler Foundation, a residential importing moral agendas from the Kild please book on 9819 1917. the infant colony. In this profoundly program for cancer patients and US. The result was a brand of deeply us fo moving novel Kate Grenville returns their families. Ian Gawler: The post-modern conservatism which Ben undermined much that traditional door 7 ROBERT DESSAIX to the landscape of her much-loved Dragon’s Blessing by Guy Allenby conservatives hold dear. Tuesday It wo One Sunday bestseller The Secret River. Inspired (A&U, PB, $35) is an honest 14 October, 6.30pm, Readings the M afternoon in a by the notebooks of William Dawes, and raw portrayal of an unortho- The Lieutenant is a compelling story dox, compassionate, laconic and Carlton. Free, no need to book. the r secluded valley in they Normandy, Robert about friendship and self-discovery courageous Australian. Friday 10 October, 6.30pm, Readings and Dessaix chanced by a writer at the peak of her 14 MICHAEL CHINOY Hawthorn. Free, no need to book. 15 O upon the castle powers. Wednesday 8 October, Join Mike Chinoy to share his 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn. 3 Fi where the famous unique and expansive insider’s Free, but book on 9819 1917. $85 French writer 11 JONATHAN KING perspective on the North Korean book André Gide spent his childhood. Using hundreds of extraordinary nuclear crisis and other issues mea Recalling the excitement he felt 9 DAVID MARR eyewitness accounts of the Diggers central to the security of Asia and avail when he first read Gide as a In May 2008 a in the trenches, The Western Front the US in this rare appearance in Kild teenager, Robert set off to recapture ferocious media Diaries (Simon & Schuster, PB, Melbourne. Mike Chinoy is the what it was that once drew him so campaign led $49.95), reproduces their private Edgerton Senior Fellow on Asia 15 strongly to this enigmatic figure. police to close Bill diaries, letters and postcards to tell at the Pacific Council on Interna- Arabesques (Picador, HB, Normally Henson’s new of their heart-rending experiences, tional Policy in Los Angeles. He is $49.99, Our special price $39.99) is exhibition. The battle by battle. With its gallery visiting Australia to promote his Join Robert Dessaix and travel memoir at Prime Minister of unpublished photographs, 90 most recent book Meltdown: The auth their absolute finest. Robert Dessaix called his pictures years on, The Western Front Diaries Inside Story of the North Korean Can is a writer, interviewer, translator ‘absolutely revolting’. Galleries tells the stories of these Australian Nuclear Crisis (Henry Holt, HB, talki and broadcaster. Tuesday 7 stripped them from their walls. soldiers and finally gives them their $49.95), a highly-acclaimed exposé behi October, 6.30pm, Readings While Henson remained silent, a historical due. Jonathan King has based on hundreds of interviews have Hawthorn. Free, but please book debate raged about art, children, written 25 books on Australian his- and 14 trips to North Korea. This ular? on 9819 1917. censorship, paedophilia, the tory (including three on Gallipoli). event is co-presented by Asialink at such 2 Events The University of Melbourne and Why aren’t more people speaking 21 TRACEY LISTER did not vote. And they were very the US Studies Centre at the Uni- out loud against the farcical nature close to the then Prime Minister & ANDREAS POHL versity of Sydney and supported by of this trend? Wednesday 15 Koto (Hardie John Howard. Michael Bachelard, Readings Books, Music and Film. October, 6.30pm, Readings Grant, PB, $45) author of Behind the Exclusive Tuesday 14 October, 6.30pm, Carlton. Free, but please book on is a culinary Brethren (Scribe, PB, $32.95) was Carrillo Gantner Basement 9347 6633. journey through formerly part of The Age’s investiga- Theatre, Sidney Myer Asia an Vietnam, written tive team, and now writes for The Centre, The University of Sunday Age. In 2008 he won a Quill - 16 CHRIS by well-known Melbourne. Free, but please book award for best news report in print. WALLACE-CRABBE Melbourne chef, on [email protected] Wednesday 22 October, te David Hansome will be launch- Tracey Lister and with ‘CNN- Mike Chinoy’ in the 6.30pm, Readings Hawthorn.