Readings.com.au: Carlton

Shaun Tan book launch of The Bird King - Thursday 30 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Thursday 30 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

The bird king, the anthropologists, the thing in the bathroom, the paraffin-oil koala. What do they all have in common? Nothing! Except that they all inhabit the unique world of renowned artist, author and illustrator Shaun Tan.

Collected in this journal, The Bird King and other Sketches for the first time are his illustrations for stories that never developed, observational studies, preliminary drawings for books, films and theatre, and random doodles from Shaun’s working sketchbooks. Together with commentary by the artist, they offer a special insight into the imagination of one of Australia’s most celebrated storytellers, the internationally acclaimed creator of The Lost Thing, The Red Tree, The Arrival and Tales from Outer Suburbia.

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Neil Cole book launch - Wednesday 29 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Wednesday 29 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Join us for the launch of Neil Cole's Colonel Surry's Insanity.

This is the story of John Surry, a solicitor and former Colonel in the Second World War, who pleads Not Guilty to taking money from his client's trust account on the grounds that he was insane at the time he committed the offence with manic depression. When he is found Not Guilty he is sent to psychiatric prison. The story chronicles a man of who has enormous mood swings during the war and after. It is set against the backdrop of conscription of soldiers for the Vietnam War. The book poses the question what is sanity as young men are sent off to fight and be killed in a war in Asia. It makes you realise that young people who had to die in that war is as insane as the illness that John Surry has.

This book is the definitive book on bipolar mood disorder told as a novel in a humurous and poignant manner.

Free, no need to book.

Tony Wilson - Tuesday 28 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Tuesday 28 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Funny man and writer Tony Wilson is back with his second novel Making News. This is a darkly funny and revealing story about today’s celebrity culture, invasion of privacy and the machinations involved in creating a smutty story for the masses. Join us for a laugh and really quite a big gossip session.

Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.

Ross Honeywill book launch of Wasted - Thursday 23 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Thursday 23 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Ross’s latest novel Wasted is the true story of Jim McNeil – a man jailed for armed robbery who would become one of the most important Australian playwrights of the twentieth century.

When he wrote his first play, McNeil had never set foot in a theatre. Just four years later he was a celebrity, freed ten years early thanks to David Marr, Katharine Brisbane and a powerful group of Sydney's elite, who declared him one of the country's most important writers. Ross Honeywill met Jim McNeil after he was released from prison and has long wanted to tell his story.

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Joy Damousi book launch of Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia - Wednesday 22 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Wednesday 22 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Join us for the launch of Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia.

This book explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence and elocution was of great importance in the empire and Joy Damousi offers an innovative study of the relationship between language and empire.

Her findings reveal the central role of voice and pronunciation in informing and defining both individual and collective identity, as well as wider cultural views of class, race, nation and gender. The result is a pioneering contribution to cultural history and the history of English within the British Empire.

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Ravi Roy and Manfred Steger book launch of Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction - Tuesday 21 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Tuesday 21 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Join us for the launch of Ravi Roy and Manfred Steger’s book Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction.

In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing regions of the global South. At the dawn of the new century, however, neoliberalism has been discredited as the global economy, built on its principles, has been shaken to its core by a financial calamity not seen since the dark years of the 1930s. So is neoliberalism doomed or will it regain its former glory?

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Kat Chadwick and Janeen Brian - Monday 20 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Monday 20 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

In celebration of the Royal Melbourne show we bring a little of the magic into our own shop with a celebration of Shirl and the Wollomby Show. This is a fun picture book that reminds us all of the excitement of the show!

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Anna Krien in conversation with Alan Attwood - Thursday 16 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Thursday 16 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Anna's new book Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests, will be the topic of the evening. Anna’s book explores behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers. She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change.

Alan Atwood is the editor of The Big Issue.

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Chris Womersley book launch of Bereft - Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Wednesday 15 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Toni Jordan will launch Bereft by Chris Womersley, a searing gothic novel of love, longing and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind.

It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world. In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of an unspeakable crime. Aware that his father and uncle would surely hang him, Quinn hides in the hills surrounding Flint. There, he meets the orphan Sadie Fox — a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about the crime than she should.

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Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis book launch of A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New - Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Tuesday 14 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand edited by Graham Oppy and Nick Trakakis will be launched by Tony Coady, from the University of Melbourne. This book has over 280 contributors, including a superb 'shout' from Graham Priest. Fantastic resource for many.

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Pages to Poetry: Alan Loney, TT.O and Javant Biarujia - Monday 13 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Monday 13 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Our regular celebration of the very best poets and their work in Melbourne with Alan Loney, TT.O and Javant Biarujia.

Alan Loney has published eleven books of poetry and several books of prose.

TT.O has been writing poetry for over 40 years. His new and selected poems is Big Numbers.

Javant Biarujia has published three books of poetry as well as several chapbooks, and has been widely anthologised. He was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and his latest book is Pointcounterpoint.

Burma: Women’s Voices for Peace book launch - Tuesday 07 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Tuesday 07 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

The Burma – Women’s Voices for Peace anthology focuses on the stories of women’s experiences living within Burma and as refugees. Their stories are heartbreaking and moving, and we are privileged that these women have been willing to share so many painful, suspenseful and inspiring experiences with compassion, humility and wit. This is the 7th compilation of writings by Women from Burma. We are delighted to be able to share this night with you.

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Ray Moynihan in conversation with Leslie Cannold - Monday 06 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Monday 06 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Against a backdrop of virtual intercourse, online porn, and burgeoning Viagra sales, Ray’s book Sex, Lies, and Pharmaceuticals reveals how women sexual difficulties are being repackaged as symptoms of a new disorder. In this compelling book, award-winning journalist Ray Moynihan teams up with drug assessment specialist Barbara Mintzes to investigate the creation of female sexual dysfunction or FSD, and the marketing machine that promises to "cure" it. Ray will be in conversation with ethicist Leslie Cannold.

Free, but please book on 9347 6633 or by email.

Charlie Pickering book launch of Impractical Jokes - Sunday 05 September 2010 at 2:30pm

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Sunday 05 September 2010 at 2:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Shaun Micallef will launch Charlie Pickering's book Impractical Jokes.

Charlie Pickering is a comedian, writer and presenter. After throwing away his career as a lawyer, Charlie toured the world performing stand-up from London to Bahrain, earning a nomination for the prestigious Perrier Award for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Upon his return to Australia, Charlie and fellow comedian Michael Chamberlin created and starred in The Mansion on The Comedy Channel, before going on to host Toast, a weekend breakfast show on Triple M and rocketing to national popularity on Network Ten's The 7pm Project and Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation.

His book Impractical Jokes is about three toilets, a deceased poodle and some sadly depreciated real-estate ... a rollicking, laugh-out-loud memoir of how a practical joke went too far from one of Australia's brightest young comedians.

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Ouyang Yu book launch of The English Class - Thursday 02 September 2010 at 6:30pm

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Thursday 02 September 2010 at 6:30pm

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Nicholas Jose, editor of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, launches Ouyang Yu’s new novel The English Class, the story of Jing, a Chinese truck driver who aspires to learn English and migrate to the West.

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Pre-School Story Time - Thursday 28 October 2010 at 10:30am

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Thursday 28 October 2010 at 10:30am

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10.30am to 11.00am.

For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book.

Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.

Pre-School Story Time - Thursday 21 October 2010 at 10:30am

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Thursday 21 October 2010 at 10:30am

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10.30am to 11.00am.

For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book.

Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.

Pre-School Story Time - Thursday 14 October 2010 at 10:30am

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Thursday 14 October 2010 at 10:30am

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10.30am to 11.00am.

For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book.

Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.

Pre-School Story Time - Thursday 07 October 2010 at 10:30am

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Thursday 07 October 2010 at 10:30am

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10.30am to 11.00am.

For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book.

Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.

Pre-School Story Time - Thursday 16 September 2010 at 10:30am

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Thursday 16 September 2010 at 10:30am

Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Drop into Readings Carlton for Story Time, every Thursday (excluding school holidays), from 10.30am to 11.00am.

For children aged 2 – 5 year old. Free event, no need to book.

Please note: This is not a child-minding service. We ask that parents stay with their children for the reading. To find out more please call us on (03) 9347 6633.