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Good Reading : April 2004
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Enter the world of Viking Magic with author Anna Ciddor Celebrate the launch of Stormriders (sequel to Runestone and Wolfspell) with an hour of magic and fortune-telling. Find out the secrets behind the making of the series and create your own runestones. A great school holiday activity for 8-13 year olds. Venue: Borders, Chadstone Shopping Centre, Chadstone Bookings: Not required Further information: 03 9569 1600 Cost: Free Date: Thursday, 15 April from 2.00pm to 3.00pm Travelling Treasures Travelling Treasures is an innovative program designed to take individual State Library of Victoria collection items and curatorial experts to regional and rural public libraries, providing rare and intimate access to unique manuscripts, books and artefacts.The exhibition will be appearing at the following libraries in April: Shepparton Public Library, 27 April Wangaratta Public Library, 28 April Wodonga Public Library, 29 April For library opening times and further infor mation phone 03 8664 7016 VIC Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. At this month’s literary lunch Dr Roslyn Jolly talks about her book, The Cruise of the Janet Nichol, based on a diary kept by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson. Pre-lunch- eon workshop will be at 10.00am by award-winning children’s writer, Libby Hathorn. Venue: Dixson Room, State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Bookings: Required Further information: 02 9938 1454 or 02 9522 0520 Cost: $25.00 for non-members, $20.00 for members, $10.00 for Workshop Date: Wednesday, 14 April, 12.00pm for 12.30pm Meet Charlotte Wood Charlotte Wood will be discussing her new novel The Submerged Cathedral . Venue: Ashfield Municipal Library, 260 Liverpool Road, Ashfield Bookings: Required Further information: 02 9716 1810 Cost: Free Date: Wednesday, 21 April from 1.00pm to 2.00pm Meet Paul Brunton Paul Brunton, NSW Library curator, will be talking about the book based on the library’s latest exhibition, The Diaries of Miles Franklin. Venue: Mosman Library, Library Walk, Mosman Bookings: Required Further information: 02 9969 9736 Cost: $6.60 or $4.40 concession which includes light refreshments Date: Wednesday, 14 April at 7.00pm The Written Word Series The Written Word is an eight part series of public events as part of Litera- ture 2004 at the State Library of NSW, which will see popular Australian writ- ers talking candidly about their work in fiction, memoir, songwriting, journal- ism, comedy and script-writing.This month’s author, Clea Koff, has written an unflinching account of her time as a forensic anthropologist with Physicians for Human Rights in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Her search for the truth as leader of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal Forensic team transfor med the wide-eyed student into a world-weary veteran. She will be discussing her book, The Bone Woman. Venue: State Library of NSW, Macquarie Street, Sydney Bookings: Required Further information: 02 9273 1770 or email bookings@sl.nsw.gov.au Cost: $16.50 or $11.00 concession Date: Wednesday, 14 April at 5.30pm for 6.00 pm NSW (bookings) events for readers this month 51 (GoodReading)
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