Chris Gordon

Events Manager Chris Gordon shares some highlights from our April program of events. Matthew Condon on crime and corruption in Queensland’s history In Jacks and Jokers, a sequel to the explosive Three Crooked Kings, Matthew Condon provides another…

Our Events Manager Chris Gordon interviews Betty Churcher about Australian Notebooks. Congratulations on your second book. I’m so glad you enjoyed my meander through the Australian Galleries. Your tour of these galleries is both enlightening and heart-warming; I enjoyed…

Events Manager Chris Gordon shares some highlights from our March program of events, one for each week of the month. Rafael Epstein in conversation with Jon Faine Melbourne’s own voices are coming together for this event. Rafael Epstein will talk…

The Children’s Book Festival returns to the State Library of Victoria on Sunday 23 March, a festival where authors are celebrities - and rightly so. It’s a big day, no doubt about it. There are noises, kids, prams, balloons, fairy…

Here are our top ten food and garden books of 2013, as selected by our resident foodie and gardener Chris Gordon. (Displayed in no particular order.) Cooked by Michael Pollan In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores an essential human activity…

This Christmas will be the very first time our events manager Chris Gordon hosts the day from her own home in Australia. Here, she shares what she’s planning to dish up for her guests. Being a mother I’m going to…

Chris Gordon chats with Stefano Manfredi about his new cookbook Stefano, I reckon this book is one of the most comprehensive collections of Italian dishes, suited for Australian produce that I’ve come across. How long did it take you to…

Chris Gordon chats with Jamie Durie about I love the layout of this book, especially where you show what you grow. Lovely design. Yours? I’m so happy that you like it, I am very proud of it! The design of…

On Friday eve I attended Into the Bloodstream, an evening with Archie Roach hosted by Melbourne Festival. Surrounded by his friends on stage and listening to Archie let loose his particular brand of raw, gospel tones, I felt as…

Recently I travelled through the fine island of Bali, staying in a variety of hotels all surrounded by lush gardens and smiling people. At every new place, I’d wander into the reception and discover the same thing: a book exchange…

Events Coordinator Philipp Meyer This is Philipp’s only event in Melbourne. He’s being lauded as the next John Steinbeck and his latest novel, The Son, is an epic read - vivid and a little scary. He doesn’t cut corners.…

National Bookshop Day was Saturday 10 August and we held celebrations at our Carlton, Hawthorn, St Kilda and Malvern shops. Singing together, on mass, seems to bring out the very warmest of feelings. And so it was on Saturday morning…