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    In Conversation with Rita McInnes | Book Launch

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

    Wake the Dust by Rita McInnes Jane Harper (The Dry) meets Nick Cave in backroad noir and beyond. When burnt-out Aussie nurse and wannabe writer, Ella, flees her suffocating life in Melbourne for a housesitting assignment on a remote rural property, she is thrust into a brutal and unfamiliar landscape. Her budding friendship with Tom […]

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    In Conversation with Garry Disher

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

    Sanctuary by Garry Disher Grace is a master thief, specialising in valuable stamps, watches and jewellery.  She never stays long in one place, so when she's recognised at a Brisbane stamp expo, she must  go on the run again. But she'd like a shot at a normal life, and settles in the Adelaide Hills, where she […]

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  • The Reading Room

    Heritage Reading Room Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The Reading Room This volunteer run reading and discussion group meets monthly, the last Monday of the month, in the Heritage Reading Room (subject to availability) . Members will select books to be discussed which will include fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories. If you would like to be a part of this group (free […]

  • In Conversation with Pam Swanborough

    Lending Library 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 […]

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    In Conversation with Paula Gleeson

    Lending Library 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 May is quiet, self-conscious withdrawn; June is boisterous, beautiful, magnetic...and missing.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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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  • In Conversation with Louise Le Nay

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

    July 16 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Edenhope Louise Le Nay. 'A moving story about one woman’s unconditional love, the kindness of strangers, and what’s right as well as what’s wrong with the way we live now.’ Amanda Lohrey, Miles Franklin Award-winning author of 'The Labyrinth' Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly […]

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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 […]

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  • 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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