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Mea Campbell, Founder.
Charlotte Brougham, Club Manager.
Katie & Ali, Club Hosts
Welcome to your exclusive Book Club Members Area. Consider this place your private haven for all things books! Explore new exciting content at the beginning of each month, and throughout the month escape into the resources whenever you need reading inspiration, solace or joy.
If you are new to the club, keep an eye out for a welcome email introducing you to our team, and never hesitate to reach out to any of us. for any reason. Happy reading!!
January 2022
It's Summer which means it's that slightly strange period when we loose track of what day of the week it is, allow ourselves to have the odd afternoon nap and spend time with family and friends, take a break from the hectic pace of life and reflect on what it all really means. Inspired by Ali, in this pause, we thout it fitting that we take the time to enjoy, reflect, learn and ponder what it is means to love. No matter your circumstance, every human soul has been touched by this, the most powerful and mysterious of animal emotions and here Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a love story?'
Love Stories
'Love Stories' by Trent Dalton
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Short read for the month
Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America.
This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is the story of every man and woman cursed with too much consciousness and too little comprehension, and it is the story of Jen Fein, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Her voice is cuttingly perceptive, darkly funny, and always fiercely intelligent as she breaks narrative convention to send dispatches back from the world as she finds it.
with matty johns
face to face
Trent dalton @trentdaltonauthor
Katherine
@readwithkat
Fun, light and fresh and happy, this account offers you a bit on an insight ot the author and the way he works with the community to bring about his works. You'll love watching the videos and readings for sure!
Katherine is simply one of us - a normal person, with a normal job and a completely normal book obsession! She reads alot of up and coming works and so is a great one to follow to keep that TBR pile sky high.
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Monthly Resources
This resources section is designed to give you everything you will need for your month of reading!
Author interviews, social media accounts, short reads, our library.
Here is a short but interesting interview between Matty Johns and Trent Dalton about his first novel Boy Swallows World.
Enjoy these author interviews for the month of January
Our short read is for those speed reading members who finish the first book and want more, and is for new members who join late in the month and don't have time to dive into the main read.
If you don't have time to read the book yourself then you might like to listen to the author read it for The Centre for Fiction.
There are two parts to be enjoyed around two of her works - Speedboat and Pitch Dark. Enjoy!
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Trent Dalton
Speedboat by REnata Adler
Renata Adler
And if you would like to delve into his other work, then here is a great interview from The Daily Telegraph about All Our Shimmering Skies.
with the Daily telegraph
with The Center for Fiction
Social Media accounts to follow
Here's a challenge for you!
Take part in the writing of our first progressive novel!
LISA millar
@lisamillartv
#aussieauthors
Fun, light and fresh and happy, this account offers you a bit on an insight into the author and the way she works to put a smile on her face, as well as others while still delivering the news stories that we lived of late. A genuine and down -to-earth soul.
There are so many brilliant Australian authors and this hashtag brigns so them together to celebrate. Their are thousands of posts from countless accounts - you are sure to find an opal or two (or a few hundred!)
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Monthly Resources
This resources section is designed to give you everything you will need for your month of reading!
Author interviews, social media accounts, a challenge and our library.
Here is an interview from the Melbourne Press Club's 'The Edit' - a special program of events to help the next generation of Melbourne reporters, producers and editors hone their skills and develop their careers.
As an Ochberg Fellow of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (and served as a director of the organisation until December 2019), Lisa is a strong advocate for improving mental health practices in newsrooms.
This video is a must see if for some reaon you are unable to make it to our live event at the end of the month.
Enjoy these author interviews for the month of February
it seems that our awesome members are more up for a writing challenge than they are for a short read and this, we are kind of over the moon about! who would have thought that a love of reading and writing might go hand in hand eh!?
The Book Show brings you in-depth conversations with the best fiction writers from Australia and around the world.
Here Claire Nichols interviews 'life at the extremes' where we hear from Pat Barker, Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Ella Baxter
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Lisa Millar
challenge one will be daring to...
take part in the writing of our first progressive novel!
The Book Show
with the Melbourne press club
the book show's lateast
Social Media accounts to follow
Short read for the month
Library
If you are a speed reader and finish our monthly book quickly, or if this months book doesn't sound like your cup of tea, don't worry! We still have you covered.
This is an ever-growing collection of recommendations from members, guests, friends and family. We have not read every single book, this is our 'library' where we store books we want to read, that others truly love, and that you may find joy in reading.
Take your pick, read as many or as little as you want each month, and then join us for the end of month meeting.
"it's just so brilliantly written and a quirky story. So clever"
"quirky and amazing - how can anyone think to write something like that. Just beautiful!"
"fascinating to reflect on the differences and similarities between a pandemic of the past and the present through the eyes of three women in 1918."
"a book that celebrates the glory and beauty of life"
"courage and power - a book i would recommend for sure."
"proof of the wweird and whacky journeys on which authors take us from such humble beginnings"
"amazing women and it's always really good to read some of the things that incledible women have done."
"the life of jock - what an extraordiary man and life! how did he survive!?."
"Light and easy - a pleasant read for summer."
"if you are into a good thriller then this is a book for you."
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