Featured events

Book launch: A Couple of Things Before the End
Readings Carlton — 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
Helen Garner will launch Sean O'Beirne’s A Couple of Things Before the End. This new collection of stories takes the reader on an extraordinary tour of an old and a new Australia. Outstandingly original, bitingly satirical and written in a remarkabl…

Barbara Arrowsmith-Young on the inner workings of the brain
Readings Hawthorn — 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
We are thrilled to have Barbara Arrowsmith-Young sharing her incredible story with us, for one night only.
The author of the game-changing The Woman Who Changed Her Brain, Barbara Arrowsmith-Young developed the Arrowsmith Program, which has helped …

Long Litt Woon and The Way Through the Woods
Readings Carlton — 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
We are delighted to have anthropologist and author Long Litt Woon visit us as part of her international tour.
The sudden death of Woon’s partner left her struggling to imagine a life without the man who had been her soulmate and best friend for thi…

Lindy West in conversation with Clementine Ford
Melbourne Athenaeum, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne
To acknowledge International Women’s Day we are over the moon to bring you Lindy West and Clementine Ford in conversation about misogyny, propaganda and the power of women.
From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the la…