Meg Bignell for The Book Cow: The Good Losers

Join us for a wonderful in-conversation evening as we welcome bestselling author Meg Bignell to launch her latest novel, The Good Losers with special guest Barbie Robinson of Living Arts Canberra.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Set in northern Tasmania, The Good Losers is a hilarious and heartwarming novel about an elite local rowing club. Callie March finds herself facing a season of pre-dawn parent, endless fundraising and insufferable d***heads. But there is something fishy going down in the rowing shed. To find out what, Callie must rock the boat – or capsize it altogether. The Good Losers contains profundity, profanity, heartache, bum chafe, terrible winners, Meg’s signature feminist undertones and very good losers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meg Bignell was a nurse and a weather presenter on the telly before she surrendered to a persistent desire to write. She is the author of four novels and one non-fiction book. Her third novel, The Angry Women’s Choir, won the People’s Choice Award for fiction at the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards. She has written and performed in short films, cabaret shows and a musical. She lives on the east coast of Tasmania with her husband, three children, one dog and about a thousand cows