Events Upstairs @ 49 - Events                   September 2010 Friday, September 03, 2010 / 4.00 for 4.30pm Free Event   Stephanie Bowe Girl Saves Boy Published by: Text Publishing Stephanie will be reading and signing at DH Venue: gleebooks Dulwich Hill, 536 Marrickville Road. Cost: Free RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server The first time we met, Jewel Valentine saved my life. Isn’t it enough having your very own terminal disease, without your mother dying? Or your father dating your Art teacher? No wonder Sacha Thomas ends up in the lake that Saturday evening But the real question is: how does he end up in love with Jewel Valentine? With the help of quirky teenage prodigies Little Al and True Grisham, Sacha and Jewel have a crazy adventure, with a little lobster emancipation along the way. But Sacha’s running out of time, and Jewel has secrets of her own. Girl Saves Boy is a hugely talented debut novel, funny and sad, silly and wise. It’s a story of life, death, love and garden gnomes. Steph Bowe was born in 1994 and lives in Melbourne. She writes a blog called Hey! Teenager of the Year. This is her first novel. She does not condone the theft of garden gnomes. Saturday, September 04, 2010 / 12 - 5pm Booksale   The Great Book Bonanza Venue: Actors Centre Australia 241 Devonshire St ( Cnr. Crown Street) Surry Hills Cost: Tel: 02 9319 5877 Fax: 02 9319 3649 CURRENCY PRESS The performing arts publisher presents for one day only THE GREAT BOOK BONANZA Start spring in the dramatic style with Currency's biggest ever sale. Hundreds of books about theatre, film, music and dance along with plays and screenplays are up for grabs! PAPERBACKS $2 HARDBACKS $5 CASH ONLY No Credit Cards or EFTpos Currency Press Tel: 02 9319 5877 Fax: 02 9319 3649 www.currency.com.au Saturday, September 04, 2010 / 4.30 for 5pm Event / Talk   Wit Large @ Gleebooks Smart Comedy for Smart People WITLARGE MC’d by Dave Bloustein Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $12/$10 conc. and gleeclub Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server From September, Gleebooks will become Sydney’s newest venue for smart and literate comedy. Hosted by resident MC Dave Bloustien (writer for Good News Week and The Glass House), Wit Large will give comedians the opportunity to spin laughter out of topics not easily discussed in conventional comedy rooms: science, geography, art, philosophy and anything else you might find in a bookshop. Wit large will be held on the first Saturday of every month. September 4 features Tommy Dean (TGIF, Good News Week), along with fellow American ex-pat Lila Tillman (Comedy Zone) and hilarious historian David Cunningham (University of Sydney). In future months, Wit Large will play host to the cleverest of clogs, including: Kitty Flanagan (The Sketch Show, 7pm Project), acerbic wit Peter Berner (BackBerner, Good News Week), Lawrence Leung (ABCTV’s Choose Your Own Adventure), comedy writer Bruce Griffiths and comedian and author Sam Bowring. Monday, September 06, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Jonathon Watts When a Billion Chinese Jump Published by: Allen&Unwin In conversation with tba Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy When a Billion Chinese Jump An essential and incisive discussion on China today - a country on an environmental precipice that will affect the entire world. When a Billion Chinese Jump tells the story of China's - and the world's - biggest crisis. With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept catastrophe, or make radical changes. Travelling the vast country to witness this environmental challenge, Jonathan Watts moves from mountain paradises to industrial wastelands, examining the responses of those at the top of society to the problems and hopes of those below. At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that - even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited - the actions of individuals can make a difference. Consistently attentive to human detail, Watts vividly portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state. No reader of his book - no consumer in the world - can be unaffected by what he presents. Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's Asia environment correspondent. Tuesday, September 07, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / Talk   Gavin Pretor-Pinney Wavewatchers’ Companion Published by: Allen&Unwin Gavin will be giving an illustrated talk on the night Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server A humorous, original guide to the waves that surround us and through which we experience the world, by the bestselling author of The Cloudspotter's Guide. Gavin Pretor-Pinney started wondering about waves when he found himself in a glider 'surfing' a gigantic Australian cloud called the Morning Glory; its similarity to an ocean wave was startling. So he embarked on a global journey of wave discovery that was at first intended as an excuse for a holiday to Hawaii. But other kinds of wave kept cropping up to impede his departure. Brain waves, radio waves, infrared waves, microwaves, shock waves, light waves, Mexican waves - all played a role in delaying Gavin's arrival on Waikiki Beach. If you've ever wondered why your heart beats, snakes slither, suspension bridges collapse, butterfly wings shimmer, saucers fly, traffic jams - it's all about waves...... Gavin Pretor-Pinney is the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. He also co-founded the Idler, a magazine that defends the noble art of doing nothing. Gavin is no surfer. In fact, he is rubbish at surfing. But he loves watching waves in every form, and has come to realise that they are at the very heart of the world around us. Wednesday, September 08, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Joe Bageant Rainbow Pie Published by: Scribe In conversation with Charles Firth Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy Rainbow Pie Joe Bageant frequently appears on US national public radio and the BBC, and writes for newspapers and magazines internationally. A commentator on the politics of class in America, he has been featured in documentary films in Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Sweden, and Britain. His book Deer Hunting with Jesus: dispatches from America's class war has been adapted for the theatre and is being developed as a dramatic television series by HBO in America. Bageant spends much of each year in Belize, Central America, and in Jalisco, Mexico, where he writes, and in which he sponsors small health-and-shelter development projects. He also writes an online column (www.joebageant.com) that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. Charles Firth is one of the Chaser team. Friday, September 10, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Fethiye Cetin My Grandmother Published by: Spinifex In conversation with Katerina Cosgrove Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy My Grandmother Fethiye Cetin is a human-rights lawyer from Turkey who has represented, among others, Hrant Dink, the Turkish-Armenian journalist assassinated in Istanbul in 2007. My Grandmother has been published in nine languages and received France's Prix Armenia in 2006. Her follow-up book, Torunlar (Grandchildren) is a book of interviews with 25 descendents of Armenian parents across Turkey. Growing up, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a respected Muslim housewife. It would be decades before her grandmother told her the truth: that she was by birth a Christian and an Armenian. In My Grandmother she breaks a family and community silence, discussing the Armenian genocide and her quest to locate lost relations before her grandmother died. Join memoirist and human rights lawyer Fethiye Cetin as she offers a personal window on family, identity, and the politics of history. Katerina Cosgrove was born in Sydney in 1973, of Greek and Irish-Australian parentage. She completed a Bachelor of Arts Communications (Hons) at the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1994. She also completed a doctorate in Creative Arts in 2003, and taught Communications degree students until 2005. She co-established cafes in inner-city Sydney then went on to co-found Sappho Books and Gertrude & Alice cafe bookstore. Katerina’s first novel, The Glass Heart, was published by HarperCollins in 2000 and reprinted in 2001, with Greek rights also sold in the same year. She travelled to Armenia, Turkey, Lebanon and Syria to research her new novel, Bone Ash Sky , which she began with the aid of an Australia Council grant and a residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland. Monday, September 13, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / Panel   Women & Fiction A night of readings A Books Alive Promotion Panel: Georgia Blain, Cate Kennedy, Rosalie Ham MC - P.M. Newton Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Join three wonderful female Australian novelists who will read from their latest works. The night will be mc’d by P.M.Newton. This is a great chance to meet and hear three contemporary novelists who write in different genres. Wednesday, September 15, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Anh Do The happiest refugee Published by: Allen & Unwin In conversation with Dave Bloustien Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy The happiest refugee Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could quench their desire to make a better life in the country they had dreamed about. Life in Australia was hard, an endless succession of back-breaking work, crowded rooms, ruthless landlords and make-do everything. But there was a loving extended family, and always friends and play and something to laugh about for Anh, his brother Khoa and their sister Tram. Things got harder when their father left home when Anh was thirteen - they felt his loss very deeply and their mother struggled to support the family on her own. His mother's sacrifice was an inspiration to Anh and he worked hard during his teenage years to help her make ends meet, also managing to graduate high school and then university. Another inspiration was the comedian Anh met when he was about to sign on for a 60-hour a week corporate job. Anh asked how many hours he worked. 'Four,' the answer came back, and that was it. He was going to be a comedian! The Happiest Refugee tells the incredible, uplifting and inspiring life story of one of our favourite personalities. Tragedy, humour, heartache and unswerving determination - a big life with big dreams. Anh's story will move and amuse all who read it. Anh Do is one of Australia's leading comedians. He has also acted in television series and films, written screenplays and is a sought-after keynote speaker. Dave Bloustien (writer for Good News Week and The Glass House) is the MC of a monthly comedy afternoon at gleebooks called Wit Large Tuesday, September 21, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Paul Cleary The Men Who Came Out of the Ground Published by: Hachette In conversation with Tom Uren & Anthony Albanese Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy The Men Who Came Out of the Ground The gripping story of a small force of Australian Special Forces commandos that launched relentless hit and run raids on far superior Japanese forces in East Timor for most of 1942. These Australians were the men of the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company - a special commando unit. Initially stranded without radio contact to Australia, the Japanese declared these beared warriors 'outlaws' and warned they would be executed immediately if captured. The Australians drawn mainly from the bush, were chosen for their ability to operate independently and survive in hostile territory. As film-maker Damien Parer said after visiting in Timor in late 1942, 'these men are writing an epic of guerrilla warfare'. Expertly researched by Paul Cleary, who is fluent in Tetum, the main language of the indigenous group of East Timor, it contains black and white photos. Paul Cleary is a senior writer with The Australian newspaper and a researcher in Indigenous development at the Australian National University. In a career spanning 20 years he has reported on politics and economics for a decade in the Canberra press gallery, and worked as a correspondent in Southeast Asia and as a political adviser. Awarded a Chevening fellowship by the UK Foreign Office to study at SOAS, University of London, he became an adviser to government of newly-independent East Timor. His work on the Timor Sea resource negotiations led to his first non-fiction book, SHAKEDOWN: AUSTRALIA'S GRAB FOR TIMOR OIL. The Timor veterans whom he met while based in East Timor inspired this book. Tom Uren is a Timor veteran and former Labor Minister; and Anthony Albanese is the Federal Member for Grayndler. Wednesday, September 22, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Free Event   Andrew Stojanovski Dog Ear Cafe Published by: Hybrid Press In conversation with Rachel Perkins Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: Free RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy Dog Ear Cafe Dog Ear Cafe is a true-life adventure story about how one Aboriginal community beat the odds and defeated petrol sniffing. It tells of the Mt Theo Petrol Sniffing Program: a story of culture clash, of two lines of fire that meet in the desert night, of partnerships that cross Australia's racial divide. Woven throughout are humour, taboos, bush mechanics, hope and tragedy. In a colloquial and narrative manner, this book invites the reader to a deeper analysis of the assumptions behind white and black economics, indigenous alcoholism, welfare dependency and the failure of well intended policy and programs. Hidden in the subtext is a mud map for reproducing successful partnerships with indigenous Australians. The Mt Theo Program was founded in 1994, when half the teenage population of Yuendumu were sniffing. Eight years later no one sniffed, and ex-sniffers had become youth leaders and community workers. The elders of Mt Theo used their traditional bush knowledge to turn lives around. Thursday, September 23, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Ashley Hay The Body in the Clouds Published by: Allen&Unwin In conversation with Mirielle Juchau Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy The Body in the Clouds What if you looked up at just the right moment and saw - out of the corner of your eye - something unexpected? What if it was something so marvellous, so extraordinary, that it transformed time and space forever? The Body in the Clouds tells the story of one extraordinary moment - a man falling from the sky, and surviving - and of three men who see it, in different ways and different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the late 1700s, a bridgeworker in the 1930s, an expatriate banker returning home in the early 21st century: all three are transformed by one magical event. All are searching for the same thing: how to understand what it means to call a place home, and how be able to tell when you get there. The Body in the Clouds is a luminous novel about the power of story: the stories that define who and where we are. And the stories we tell - and have told, and will tell - for the people we love. Ashley Hay is the author of four books of non-fiction - The Secret: The strange marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron and Gum: The story of eucalypts and their champions, and Herbarium and Museum with the visual artist Robyn Stacey. A former literary editor of The Bulletin, her essays and short stories have also appeared in anthologies and journals including Brothers and Sisters, The Monthly, Heat and The Griffith Review. The Body in the Clouds is her first novel. Mireille Juchau is the author of Burning In (Giramondo, 2007) which was shortlisted for the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award and the Nita B. Kibble Award. Her first novel, Machines for Feeling (UQP, 2001) was shortlisted for the 1999 Vogel/Australian Literary Award and her play, White Gifts, won the Perishable Theatre Women's Playwriting Award and was performed in the US. Wednesday, September 29, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Kate Holden The Romantic: Italian nights and days Published by: Text In conversation with tba Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server Buy The Romantic: Italian nights and days This is the spellbinding follow-up to Kate Holden's memoir In My Skin, but it has a different story to tell. The Romantic describes Kate's journey from Melbourne to Rome and Naples, from romance and sex to love, from loss to understandingand back again. This is a book about everything from sex with strangers to the heartbreaking realities of being in love. It's about the pride of fierce independence and the crushing weight of loneliness. It's about losing yourself in love and then finding yourself through your lover. But most of all, The Romantic is the story of one woman's pilgrimage to discover who she really is. And to learn to like what she finds. Kate Holden completed an honours degree in classics and literature at the University of Melbourne and a graduate diploma in professional writing and editing, in which she won the Judy Duffy Award for literary excellence. The bestselling In My Skin is her first book. It was published to critical acclaim and has sold to nine countries. Thursday, September 30, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Event / In Conversation   Tom Keneally Three Famines Published by: Random House In conversation with tba Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place via the gleebooks' secure server This is the story of three great famines. The first is an Gorta Mr, the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate. The second is the less well-known but more deadly famine that struck Bengal in 1943. The third is the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then again under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s. Keneally himself visited Eritrea in 1984 to see the effects of this grave event. In those who suffered these famines; in those who denied their suffering; in those who propounded theories to excuse it; in those who - against the wishes of each government - told the world what was happening; and in those who tried to relieve it, there is a remarkable continuity of impulse and experience and dilemma. Though these famines are diverse, they are in many ways as similar as if they were related by DNA, or a malignant force of fallibility. Tom Keneally shares these three shocking histories with his customary penetrating wisdom, and he presents a controversial theory in his utterly compelling narrative: in all three famines, ideology, mindsets of governments, racial preconceptions and administrative incompetence were, ultimately, more lethal than the initiating blights, the loss of potatoes or rice or the grain named teff. Thursday, September 30, 2010 / 6.30 for 7.00pm Event / Talk   Tim Flannery Here On Earth In conversation with Robyn Williams Venue: Seymour Centre, Corner of City Road and Cleveland Street, Chippendale Cost: $15/$10 concession + gleeclub + booking fee - no free tix Book: see details Buy Here On Earth We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in natureof our true abilities and of our historyis supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our mindsa civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are masters of technology, and of comprehension, but it's what we believe that may, from now on, determine our fate. Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrous effects on many of the Earth's ecosystems and could lead to our downfall. But equally, Flannery argues, we are now equipped as never before to explore our true relationship with the planet on which our biological, economic and cultural futures depend. Here on Earth is not just a dazzling account of life on our planet. It will change the way you live. Booking details: Book securely online at the Seymour Centre Box Office website: Via www.seymourcentre.com.au by Phone call the Box Office on 02 9351 7940 Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-6pm, Sat 11am-6pm Transaction Fees All ticket purchases via phone or online incur a fee per transaction (not per ticket) $6.00 phone bookings $4.50 online     October 2010 Monday, October 11, 2010 / 10am-5pm One day forum   Pathways Forum 2010 From Writer To Reader: The Journey Of The Book Presented by Varuna, The Writers’ House Venue: Carrington Hotel 15-47 Katoomba Street Katoomba Cost: $175/ $150 Waged / Varuna Alumni & Concession (includes morning & afternoon tea) Book: 02 4782 5674 A one-day forum leading participants through the development of a book, from first draft through the editing and production process and on to bookshop shelves. Top professionals from Varuna, Random House, Allen&Unwin, HarperCollins and Giramondo Publishing plus award-winning bookseller Gleebooks discuss how to boost relationships with manuscript assessors, editors, publicists, sales reps & booksellers to help your book find its public. Sessions include: Finding Voice: Varuna’s role in shaping a manuscript before submission to a publisher Invisible Mending: Learning to love your editor & the work she does Spreading the Word: Working with publicists & marketers to develop your audience Shelf Life: How you can help booksellers get your story into the reader’s hands The day will finish with drinks & a lively Q&A session. Panellists Helen Barnes-Bulley & Carol Major, Varuna, The Writers' House Siobhan Cantrill, Allen&Unwin editor Ali Lavau, freelance editor Jess Pearson, Random House marketing Fiona Wright, Giramondo Publishing Andy Palmer, Allen&Unwin publicity director Michael White, HarperCollins national sales manager David Gaunt, Gleebooks Tegan Bennett Daylight & Charlotte Wood, writers & facilitators           gleebooks pty ltd - ABN: 87 000 357 317        © 1996-2010 gleebooks & MetaForm.   All rights reserved.