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Julie Braithwaite – Author of the month

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To finish off a great program of interesting and diverse author talks for 2012, our last one for the year promises to be very entertaining.

Don’t miss it! 

Thursday 15th November 2012 @ 1-2pm

Parramatta City Library

1B Civic Place, Parramatta

FREE – Bookings. Ph: 9806 5159

 

 

ARE YOU BORED AND LOOKING FOR AN ADVENTURE?

Switching Suits – The Year I became a Poker Shark might be just what you need.

 Julie Braithwaite is a respected clinical psychologist and a single mum of two. Her life was safe, conventional and dull. Until one night she inadvertently tuned into Celebrity Poker on TV and her life was dramatically changed.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT PROBLEM GAMBLING!

It’s about revitalising your life. You’re never too old to take up a new hobby to venture outside your comfort zone.

 

2012 Nobel Literature Prize

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Mo Yan, a Chinese writer, who has written ‘Red sorghum’, ‘Big breats and wide hips’ , ‘Life and death are wearing me out’, and many more other titles, wins this years Nobel Literature Prize for his merging of “folk tales,  History and contemporary with hallucinatory realism.”

Parramatta City Library has some Mo Yan’s title available for loan.

Dianne Loughnan

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Dianne Loughnan is a former Queensland and NSW provincial newspaper journalist and now commercial beef producer. She has also worked for the Queensland Landcare movement and has consulted to rural industries as a public relations practitioner. She currently lives and works with her husband and two children on their cattle property near Roma in southern inland Queensland. Continue reading →

2012 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards

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Dr. Anita Heiss has won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards,  Prize for Indigenous Writing, 2012 for her memoir Am I Black Enough for You?

Just as she wrote in her blog Anita Heiss talks again about her identity and why she wrote a memoir in a young age. Continue reading →