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July 13: Share tales from Japan at 11.30am in the Ferguson Room, Level 1, National Library of Australia. $2 admission. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Bookings: nla.gov.au.
July 13: Sara Dowse will speak about her new book As the Lonely Fly, in which three Russian-Jewish women take three very different paths after the fall of the tsar, at Paperchain Bookstore Manuka, at 5.45 for 6pm. RSVP 6295 6723.
July 13: Madeleine O'Dea, author of The Phoenix Years In Conversation. Art Resistance and the Making of Modern China, will be in conversation at Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie at 6pm. RSVP to 62515191 by Wednesday July 12. Entry by gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
July 17: Professor Michael Wesley will launch Japanese War Criminals The Politics of Justice After the Second World War at Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie at 6pm. All four authors - Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt Beatrice and Dean Aszkielowicz - will then discuss their work. RSVP to 62515191 by Sunday July 12. Entry by gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
July 19: The next Poetry at the House reading at Manning Clark House is at 7.30pm in the Fellows Bar at University House. It will feature Paul Kane (US), Melinda Smith (Canberra) and Michael Thorley (Queanbeyan).Admission: $10 waged, $5 unwaged. Bookings: gpage40@bigpond.net.au
July 20: Kate Forsyth will talk about her novel Beauty in Thorns, telling the story of love, desire, obsession and tragedy that underlies the creation of Sleeping Beauty, at the National Library of Australia Theatre, Lower Ground 1, at 6pm. Admission $20 includes refreshments and book signing. nla.gov.au.
July 22: Professor Richard Rigby will launch Sophie Loy-Wilson's Australians in Shanghai: Race, Rights and Nation in Treaty Port China at Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie, at 6pm. RSVP to 62515191 by Monday July 24th. Entry by gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
July 23: How does the writer dream and survive across multiple languages, cultures and genres? Join writer Merlinda Bobis and Subhash Jaireth in this conversation about creative practice at Muse Canberra at 3pm..musecanberra.com.au.
July 27: Michael Robotham will talk about his suspense thriller The Secrets She Keeps, about the unlikely friendship between two pregnant women, in the National Library of Australia Theatre, Lower Ground 1, at 6pm. $20 includes refreshments and book signing. Nla.gov.au.
July 27: Labor's Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Mark Butler, will be in conversation with Mark Howden on Butler's new book, Climate Wars, which is a case for using less and cleaner energy in an ANU/ Canberra Times Meet the Author Event in the Finkel Theatre, ANU. Bookings at anu.edu.au/events or 6125 4144.
August 2: Rusty Young will talk about his book Colombiano, based on interviews with Special Forces soldiers, snipers, undercover intelligence agents and members of terrorist organisations, at the National Library of Australia Theatre, Lower Ground 1, at 6pm. $20 includes book signing and refreshments. nla.gov.au.
August 14: At 6.30pm in the Molonglo Theatre, JG Crawford Building, Crawford School, 132 Lennox Crossing, ANU in a free ANU/Canberra Times Meet the Author event, Gail Kelly will discuss her her new book, Live, Lead, Learn. Bookings at anu.edu.au/events or 6125 4144. Pre-book signings at 6pm.
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