Join us for these brilliant author presentations at the December 2022 First Tuesday Book Club!
We are thrilled to be able to continue our First Tuesday Book Club, in conjunction with Rivoli Cinemas, for 2022.
Tickets are $30 each and include entry, a welcome drink, and a selection of canapes served prior to the presentation. Plus, a FREE reading copy from our free book selection, as donated to us by our lovely publishers - special shout out to Harper Collins Australia for donating extra copies to giveaway!
The authors joining us are:
Megan Goldin - Stay Awake
The heart-stopping new thriller from the Australian author who has taken the world by storm. A complex thriller that unfolds at a breakneck speed, Stay Awake will keep you up all night.
Megan Goldin worked as a correspondent for Reuters and other media outlets, where she covered war, peace, international terrorism, and financial meltdowns in the Middle East and Asia. She is now based in Melbourne, where she raises three sons and is a foster mum to Labrador puppies learning to be guide dogs.
Alice Zaslavsky - The Joy of Better Cooking
Life-changing skills & thrills for enthusiastic eaters.
If you already enjoy the eating part, you have everything it takes to find joy in cooking too. There's no pressure to be a great cook, but everyone can aspire to be a better cook, and therein lies the fun.
Let Alice Zaslavsky, bestselling author of In Praise of Veg, lead you on a journey to confident, intuitive cooking.
Margaret Hickey - Stone Town
Stone Town is captivating new rural crime drama from the author of the bestselling Cutters End.
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is the author of Cutters End and Stone Town.
Nicki Greenberg - Detective's Guide to New York City
From the bright lights of Broadway to back-alley speakeasies, Nicki Greenberg has brought 1920s New York City to life in this delightfully thrilling mystery set in the same world as The Detective's Guide to Ocean Travel.
Anne Casey-Hardy - Cautionary Tales for Excitable Girls
Teenagers sneak out to the creek for a wild New Year's Eve party. A sleep-deprived woman who imagines she is pregnant to a Viking faces her scathing sixteen-year-old self. A woman in love wakes up in a van Gogh painting.
Emerging fully-formed and singing songs of both innocence and experience, Anne Casey-Hardy is the rarest of new voices: at the same time reckless and entirely in control; funny and frightening; wise and full-blooded.
Scott Wallace Baker Esq - presentation on Agatha Christie
Join moderator Heather Zubek as she quizzes Australia’s Biggest Agatha Christie Fan, Scott Wallace Baker Esq about his life and love of Agatha Christie. Scott will detail how his love affair began and discuss the time when the famous author visited Melbourne 100 years ago. Scott will bring along just a few of his Christie memorabilia for show and tell.
Scott Wallace Baker Esq is a man nostalgic for a time and place of quiet gentility and dignity, living as a gentleman in an Art Deco inspired time capsule. Scott is not a fan of Agatha Christie; he is an obsessive. Scott has appeared on ABC’s Hard Quiz, and if you haven’t watched his episode, you’ve missed out on possibly the best entertainment on ABC. He has appeared at this year's inaugural Death on the Yarra Festival held in Warburton, Clunes Book Festival, several bookshop events, and on radio and television talking about his life with Agatha Christie. He is a man who epitomises the enduring appeal of the author.
Agatha Christie's inventive imagination made her the queen of mystery, and the best-selling novelist of all time.
