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Canberra author Craig Cormick won a major award in the Victorian Community History Awards this week in Melbourne for his book Ned Kelly under the Microscope. Cormick, a previous winner of the ACT Book of the Year, won the collaborative community award, as the book was the work of 30 scientists he edited and co-wrote. The book, published by CSIRO Publishing, examines the many scientific and forensic mysteries surrounding Ned Kelly and his remains.
What's on
October 25: The Fellowship of Australian Writers October Meeting is on from 1-4pm in the Brindabella Room, fourth floor, National Library. All welcome. This month's topic is "Life's Little Pleasures". Shared afternoon tea. Gold coin donation. Further enquiries Adrienne Johns on 62312470.
October 25: Charlotte Wood will be in conversation at Muse, East Hotel, 69 Canberra Avenue, Kingston at 3.30pm about her novel The Natural Way of Things, an exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control. Admission $10 includes a drink. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au.
October 27: Physician Leah Kaminsky's first novel, The Waiting Room, is about contemporary Israel. She and ABC 666 broadcaster Alex Sloan will be in discussion at Muse at 7.30pm. Tickets $10. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au.
October 28: Dr Matthew Trinca will launch Horace: The Baker's Horse by 2014 Children's Laureate Jackie French at the National Museum of Australia at 9.30am.
October 28: Manning Clark Poetry Night is on at 11 Tasmania Circle, Forrest at 7.30pm. This month Kevin Brophy, Subhash Jaireth and John Stokes will be reading new and published works. Entry $10/$7 (concession and members). Phone: 6295 1808.
October 30: Kerry O'Brien will be in conversation with Lenore Taylor on O'Brien's new book Keating at a literary dinner at University House, ANU. 6.15pm, pre-signings for 7pm dinner. $62. Bookings: 6125 8415.
November 2: British author John Man, who has written about the Mongol Empire and Genghis Khan and was an adviser on the film Mongol, will be speaking at Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1-3 Lawry Place, Macquarie. at 6pm on "What the Mongols did for us". RSVP: November 1 to 62515191. Admission by gold coin donation to Classrooms in the Clouds. See: AsiaBookroom.com.
November 3: Benjamin Law, author of Gaysia, will speak at Muse, East Hotel, 69 Canberra Avenue at 8pm. Admission $10 includes a drink. Bookings: musecanberra.com.au.
November 4: Midnight Oil singer and former politician Peter Garrett will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on Garrett's autobiography Big Blue Sky in a free Canberra Times/ANU Meet the Author talk at 6pm in Manning Clark lecture theatre 1 at ANU. Bookings: 6125 8415.
November 10: Poetry at The Gods will feature readings from Canberra poet Jen Webb, Yass poet K.A. Nelson and Canberra-Braidwood poet Luke Whitington. The Gods Cafe is in the ANU Arts Centre – readings at 7.30pm, meals available from 6pm. Admission $10 waged, $5 unwaged. Bookings: 62485538.
November 11: Paul Kelly and Troy Bramston will talk about their new book, The Dismissal as part of the Canberra Times/ANU Meet the Author Series at 6pm in the Copland Lecture Theatre, ANU. Free. Bookings 6125 8415.
November 12: At 6pm at the National Portrait Gallery join Professor Jen Webb, Dr Russell Smith and Christine Clark in a discussion of Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser. Read the book and join the conversation. Bookings essential on 6102 7070.
December 8: At Poetry at the Gods the readers will be Beth Spencer from Terrigal and Kevin Brophy from Melbourne. The Gods Cafe is in the ANU Arts Centre - readings at 7.30pm, meals available from 6pm. Admission $10 waged, $5 unwaged. Bookings: 62485538.
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