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Meg Bignell for Avid Reader: The Good Losers
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Meg Bignell for Avid Reader: The Good Losers


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6:00pm - 7:30pm, 7th July 2025


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193 Boundary St,, West End, QLD 4101


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MONDAY 7 JULY 2025 | INSTORE EVENT

6.00pm for a 6.30pm start |60 mins

Join us for the Brisbane Launch of The Good Losers by Meg Bignell

ABOUT THE BOOK

The heartfelt and hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of The Angry Women’s Choir.

Callie March is fascinated by human absurdity, including the habits of the upper class. So when she pushes her screen-addicted teenage son to join a local rowing club, she is thrilled to discover a whole new world of odd behaviours, irrational obsessions and riverside rooting.

Thrust into a support crew and a very silly uniform, Callie has inadvertently volunteered for a season of pre-dawn parenting, endless fundraising, and pandering to insufferable dickheads. But she also finds friendship, intrigue and lust, while her son might just find love.

Callie is torn between enchantment and repulsion, until a trail of corruption and scandal leads to deep suspicion. There’s something fishy in the rowing shed, and Callie is determined to find out what lurks behind the closed doors of this sports club. In doing so, she will rock the boat – or better still, capsize it altogether.

This novel is set in northern Tasmania. It contains profundity, profanity, heart-ache, bum chafe, terrible winners and very good losers.

Praise for Meg Bignell:
‘a boisterous tale of music, friendship and women’s rights’ - Books+Publishing

‘a feminist grenade disguised as a book’ - Rebecca Sparrow

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meg Bignell was a nurse and a weather presenter on the telly before she surrendered to a persistent desire to write. Since then she has been writing almost every day – bits and pieces here and there, either to earn a crust, to get something off her chest or to entertain herself. She has written three short films, mostly because she wanted to do some acting and no one else would cast her. She sings a bit too, occasionally writes and performs cabaret, but is mostly very busy being a mother to three and a wife (to one). She lives with her family on a dairy farm on Tasmania’s East Coast.

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The Good Losers
The heartfelt and hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of The Angry Women’s Choir.
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