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Meet Ann Cleeves
Meet Ann Cleeves on her 2022 Australian tour as she discusses Vera Stanhope’sreturn in her newest book, The Rising Tide.
Ann Cleeves is the creator of popular detictives Vera Stanhome (ITV’s Vera), Jimmy Perez (BBC One’s Shetland), and Matthew Venn IITV’s The Long Call).
 
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Newsletter – May 2026

30/04/2026 No Comments

Rosemary’s New Releases and Recommendations | Author Talks – Live Music – Film – LIve Theatre – Twilight Talks – Message from the Chair – Ballarat Heritage Festival

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Book cover featuring three children riding bicycles in 1950s

Rosemary’s Book of the Week

27/04/2026 No Comments

Dickie Larsen’s Pumpkin and other stories Geoff Carr The 2026 Twilight Talks event proudly sponsored by Community Bank Buninyong and Bendigo Bank. Don’t miss Geoff at the BMI on Wednesday 29 April at 5.30pm Spike is a young boy in 1950s Australia, surrounded by sprawling landscapes and a menagerie of animals. Together with his friends

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A Message from the Chair | BMI Board of Directors | May 2026

20/04/2026 No Comments

Welcome to another jam packed Newsletter! I hope some of you have been able to attend the first couple of Twilight Talks for the year on April 15 featuring Hedley Thomson and April 22nd with Amethyst May & Gary Snowden as a duo. These events were very well attended, thanks to our speakers for entertaining

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Rosemary’s Book of the Week

20/04/2026 No Comments

When lemons give you life Anna Johnston Don’t miss Anna at the BMI on Thursday 30 April at 6.30pm Redemption is a dish best served warm… Retired Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow has lost his appetite for life. Widowed, grieving and living in an aged care facility where beige slop passes for food, Griff is done

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