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    Rare Book Week | BMI Vintage Book Sale

    hooper Room

    RARE BOOK WEEK | This Vintage Book Sale will feature a variety of titles including fiction and non-fiction.

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    In Conversation with Leah Kaminsky & Jacinta Halloran

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    July 29 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Leah Kaminsky Leah is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel, The Waiting Room, won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won both the Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction categories of the 2019 International Book Awards, and the 2019 American Book Fest’s […]

    $10

  • In Conversation with Margaret Hickey

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    August 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 The Creeper by Margaret Hickey. The chilling new mystery novel from the award-winning author of bestsellers Cutters End, Stone Town and Broken Bay. Victim ... or killer? For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high country has been haunted by the horrific murders of five […]

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  • In Conversation with Anna Romer

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    August 20 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 The Ghost of Briar Rose Anna Romer Everyone says the old mountainside house is haunted. Which is perfect because ghost hunter Cleary Branchwood knows it’s easy money. He’ll buy the propertydirt  cheap, flush out the poor wretch of a ghost they call Briar Rose, and resell […]

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  • In Conversation with J.P. Pomare

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    September 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 17 Years Later: Who really killed the Primrose family by J.P. Pomare. The unputdownable new bestseller by multi-award-winning author J. P. Pomare. Who killed the wealthy Primrose family? The violent slaughter of the Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation. Their young live-in chef, Bill […]

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    In Conversation with T.L.W. Robb | From The Top: From Ballarat to Baghdad

    Hugh Williamson Foyer, Level 1

    September 19 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Heritage Reading Room From the Top T.L.W. Robb. From Ballarat to Baghdad - an extraordinary life. Traveller - Outlaw - Producer. A moving and inspiring memoir of a young man and his journey from Ballarat, Australia, to the international stage where he and his partner Luis […]

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  • In Conversation with Chris Hammer

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    October 21 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm $10 Humffray Room The Valley Chris Hammer. The sins of the father | The love of a daughter | The secrets that divide them. The international bestselling author of: Scrublands & The Seven The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven. Nell Buchanan and […]

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  • In conversation with John Safran | Now moved to The George Hotel

    The George Hotel 27 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    October 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Free Humffray Room Squat John Safran. An unmissable opportunity to hear John Safran recount his time squatting in a celebrity’s abandoned mansion. Enquiries:  Any event specific enquires should be direct to Collins Booksellers on Lydiard Free. Bookings Collins Booksellers, Ballart on Lydiard This event takes place on […]

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  • In Conversation with Benjamin Stevenson

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    October 30 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret Benjamin Stevenson. Strap yourself in for Christmas hijinks, done the way only Benjamin Stevenson can.’ Hayley Scrivenor An ingenious and hilarious meta-murder mystery. - Sunday Times When a Christmas show takes a dark turn after a magician’s guillotine […]

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  • In Conversation with Tea Cooper

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    November 11 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Get Tickets The Golden Thread Tea Cooper. Intricate threads from the past and the present bind together a yellow silk dress, lost gold and a missing grandmother in a twisty historical mystery from the bestselling author of: The Talented Mrs Greenway. Maitland, 1889When nineteen-year-old […]

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