The Reading Room

Heritage Reading Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

This volunteer lead discussion group meets on the last Tuesday of the Month 10.30am - 12 noon.

In Conversation with Pam Swanborough

Lending Library 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

May 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones by Pam Swanborough Suspiciously long-lived matriarch Lizzie Coombe expects her one hundredth birthday to be memorable, But what comes after will never be forgotten by anyone in this close-knit Welsh community. Lizzie and her daughter Myfanway only remember old […]

$10

In Conversation with Paula Gleeson

Lending Library 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

June 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Original Twin by Paula Gleeson Two sisters May and June couldn’t be more different. May is quiet, self-conscious withdrawn; June is boisterous, beautiful, magnetic...and missing. It’s been a year since June disappeared, a year of May waiting for her to turn up with an explanation of […]

$10

In Conversation with Léonie Kelsall

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

July 12 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 The Homestead in the Eucalypts Léonie Kelsall Sometimes finding the way forward means retracing your past. When student doctor Taylor Lawrence's city life is turned upside down, she seeks sanctuary on her grandparents' farm in the South Australian countryside. During the lonely nights, she fantasises of […]

$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 […]

$10

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 […]

$10

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 […]

$10

Author Talk with Fiona McIntosh

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

October 2 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 The Fallen Woman Fiona McIntosh. The heart-stopping new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Sugar Palace. Botanical artist Jane Saville is devastated when her manipulative mother banishes her to the countryside to protect someone else’s honour. Isolated far from home, she is forced to live […]

$10

BMI Fundraiser

Featuring:
The Hideaways,
The Harmonies &
Surf Shadows. 

2 course dinner & lots
of dancing