Events Upstairs @ 49 - Events                   February 2010 Friday, February 12, 2010 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Special Event Andrew McNaughtan Lecture Jude Conway Plus two book launches Introduction by Nigel Stewart from the McNaughtan Foundation Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: Donation at door RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Every year AETA, (the Australia-East Timor Association NSW) remembers Dr Andrew McNaughtan with a memorial lecture in his honour. Andrew was a medical practitioner from Sydney who died in late 2003. Andrew was the Convener of AETA as well as a Board Member of both the emergency aid group TIMOR AID and of ETISC, a leading human rights advocacy and NGO-Aid body. Through the Annual Memorial Lecture and the raising of funds for the Dr. Andrew McNaughtan East Timor (Education) Foundation the name of this remarkable man is honoured. Book Launches Jude Conway (ed.) Step by Step: Women of East Timor, Stories of Resistance and Survival Charles Darwin University Press To be launched by Kerry Nettle Step by Step provides the opportunity for thirteen outspoken East Timorese women to tell their life stories: what it was like living in a Portuguese colony; how they were affected by the Indonesian invasion; what day to day life was like under the occupation or in the diaspora; how they contributed to the resistance; what they experienced in the mayhem after the referendum and how they have adapted to the stark contrast of independence. The Tomiroese women included in the book are, among others, Micato Alves, Lucia Lobato, Dulce Vitor, Maria Dias and Céu Lopes Federer. Jude Conway: After the Santa Cruz massacre in 1991, Jude Conway became a member of Australians for a Free East Timor in Darwin. Years of activism and her first trip to Timor-Leste in 1995 followed. The editor’s other publications include: Indonesia’s Death Squads, Getting Away with Murder: A Chronology of Indonesian Military sponsored Paramilitary and Militia atrocities in East Timor from November 1998 to May 1999; contributor to Buibere: Voices of East Timorese Women, 1999; and an ironic anecdote about her mother, ‘The Bloody Japanese’ in People of the Valley, 2009. Sara Niner Xanana:Leader of the Struggle for Independent Timor-Leste Australian Scholarly Publishing To be launched by Robert Domm This is the political biography of Xanana Gusmão, leader of the East Timorese struggle for self-determination and first President of the new nation of Timor-Leste. Twenty-four years of warfare with Indonesia transformed Xanana from an apolitical outsider into a tough guerrilla commander and, ultimately, the central unifying figure of East Timorese nationalism. In 1999, upon his bittersweet homecoming after years of imprisonment in Indonesia, Xanana faced the unenviable task of leading a traumatised people out of the terrifying violence and destruction that ended the Indonesian occupation. Today, the politics of East Timor remain volatile and complex, and many challenges still exist for this tiny new nation. Dr. Sara Niner is a writer, research consultant and Honorary Research Associate at Monash University where she has recently finished a Post-Doctoral Fellowship focussing on women, handcrafts and development in Timor-Leste. She is the editor of 'To Resist is to Win: the Autobiography of Xanana Gusmão with selected letters and speeches' (2000). Robert Domm is co-author with Mark Aarons of Timor: A Western-Made Tragedy. Wednesday, February 17, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk Michael Goldfarb Emancipation: How liberating Europe's Jews from the ghetto led to revolution and renaissance Published by: Scribe Publications In conversation Antony Loewenstein Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy Emancipation: How liberating Europe's Jews from the ghetto led to revolution and renaissance For almost 500 years, the Jews of Europe were kept apart, confined to ghettos or tiny villages in the countryside. Then, in one extraordinary moment in the French Revolution, the Jews of France were emancipated. Soon the ghetto gates were opened all over Europe. The era of Emancipation had begun. What happened next would change the course of history. Emancipation tells the story of how this isolated minority emerged from the ghetto and against terrible odds very quickly established themselves as shapers of history, as writers, revolutionaries, social thinkers, and artists. Their struggle to create a place for themselves in Western European life led to revolutions and nothing less than a second renaissance in Western culture. The book spans the era from the French Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century. The story is told through the lives of the people who lived through this momentous change. Some are well-known: Marx, Freud, Mahler, Proust, and Einstein; many more have been forgotten. Michael Goldfarb brings them all to life. This is an epic story, and Goldfarb tells it with the skill and eye for detail of a novelist. He brings the empathy and understanding that has marked his two decades as a reporter in public radio to making the characters come alive. It is a tale full of hope, struggle, triumph, and, waiting at the end, a great tragedy. This is a book that will have meaning for anyone interested in the struggle of immigrants and minorities to succeed. We live in a world where vast numbers are on the move, where religions and races are grinding against each other in new combinations; Emancipation is a book of history for our time. Michael Goldfarb was National Public Radio's voice in London for almost twenty years, first as NPR's London correspondent, then bureau chief, and finally as senior correspondent of Inside Out, the award-winning public radio documentary program. He has been the recipient of the DuPont-Columbia Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, and British radio's highest honour, the Sony Award. The author of Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: surviving under Saddam. Antony Loewenstein is a freelance journalist and author of the bestselling My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution. Monday, February 22, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk Xinran Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother Published by: RHA In conversation with Annette Shun Wah Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran could not bring herself to tell previously - because they were too painful and close to home. In the footsteps of Xinran’s Good Women of China, this is personal, immediate, full of harrowing, tragic detail but also uplifting, tender moments. Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women – students, successful business women, midwives, peasants, all with memories which have stained their lives. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions or hideous economic necessity... some women had to give up their daughters for adoption, others were forced to abandon them - on city streets, outside hospitals, orphanages… Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women’s lives, THE GOOD WOMEN OF CHINA. Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian, appeared frequently on radio and TV and published the acclaimed SKY BURIAL. She lives in London. Annette Shun Wah is a freelance broadcaster, actor and writer. Her writing has been published in various anthologies, including Grandma Magic edited by Janet Hutchinson and Growing Up Asian in Australia, edited by Alice Pung. Her book, Banquet – Ten Courses to Harmony, co-written with Greg Aitkin is part-social history, part-food culture, and won a Bronze Award at the 1999 World Food Media Awards. As an MC she regularly facilitates high profile events for the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Sydney Opera House and WOMADelaide. Thursday, February 25, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk Bob Brown Earth Published by: Dennis Jones In conversation with Penny Figgis Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place In this event, Senator Bob Brown will show images from his new book of photography Earth. As well, he will talk with Vice President of the ACF, Penny Figgis, about the book and his enduring passion for the environment. Our connection to the Earth and the respect we hold for it has slowly been eroded by the unrelenting march of materialism. In this 500 word exploration of human beings and our relation to the planet, senator for Tasmania and leader of the Australian Greens Bob Brown shares his thoughts, as well as his passion for photography. Global democracy, sustainability and the pressing need to take responsibility for past and present abuses of the planet inform this short but powerful discourse. Each written point is illustrated by a stunning colour photo from Bob’s portfolio of Tasmanian images. Senator Bob Brown is the most well known face of environmentalism in Australia. He has been bestowed with numerous accolades, including most recently the Australian Peace Prize and the National Portrait Gallery’s 10 Favourite Australians. He has been a member of parliament in the state and federal spheres for more than 20 years and was one of the founders of the Australian Greens political party. Bob self-published a short illustrated history of Recherche Bay in 2005 and was the author of the memoir Memo for a Saner World in 2004. His photographic work has been exhibited in galleries in Tasmania, Canberra and Melbourne. Penelope Figgis AO. Vice Chair Oceania, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. Penelope is a long term conservationist. For the past 17 years she has been Vice President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. Sunday, February 28, 2010 / 3.30 for 4pm Special Event Sunday Book Club February Document Z by Andrew Croome Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: Free RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy Document Z by Andrew Croome The Sunday Book Club aims to promote and further appreciation of Australian fiction. Gleebooks events manager, Morgan Smith, will host a discussion about a contemporary Australian novel on the last Sunday of every month. Morgan will choose the book and it is highly desirable (as in any reading group) for those attending to have read it in order to take part in the discussion. For 10% discount from gleebooks on the book of the month, simply say your are a Sunday Book Club member. For the first SBC meeting for 2010, join Morgan to discuss the Australian/Vogel winner for 2009, Document Z. Canberra, 1951. The Cold War is at its height. Into an atmosphere of paranoia, rumour and suspicion, Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov are among a group of new arrivals at the Soviet Embassy in Canberra. Both are party loyalists, working for the MVD, Moscow intelligence. Yet all is not well in the new city of Canberra. The atmosphere in the Embassy is tense and suspicious; the Ambassador resents their presence, and is secretly working to have Vladimir disgraced and recalled. In the meantime, ASIO are determined to discover who in this new group works for the MVD. Only three short years later, Vladimir has defected and his wife Evdokia is held prisoner at the Soviet Embassy, waiting to be transported back to Russia to face punishment or death for his crime. How did it come to this? A tightly told story of secrets, lies, deception and betrayal - both personal and political - Document Z, the winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, is a taut and atmospheric novel of political espionage and intrigue which brings our recent history vividly and immediately to life. Andrew Croome was born Canberra but grew up in Hobart and Albury/Wodonga. In 1998, he moved to Melbourne to attend university and is yet to leave. He has worked as a computer programmer, creative writing tutor and copywriter, and is soon to complete a PhD in Creative Writing at The University of Melbourne. Document Z is his first novel.     March 2010 Tuesday, March 02, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk Dorothy Rowe Why We Lie Presented by Philo Agora and gleebooks Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place At this annual lecture by Dorthy Rowe at gleebooks she will talk about her forthcoming book Why We Lie: The Source of Our Disasters HarperCollins (May release) Why do we lie? Because we are frightened of being humiliated, being treated like an object, being rejected, losing control of things, and, most of all, we are frightened of uncertainty. Often we get our lies in before any of these things can happen. We lie to maintain our vanity. We lie when we call our fantasies the truth. Lying is much easier than searching for the truth and accepting it, no matter how inconvenient it is. We lie to others, and, even worse, we lie to ourselves. In both private and public life, we damage ourselves with our lies, and we damage other people. Lies destroy mutual trust, and fragment our sense of who we are. Lies have played a major part in climate change and the global economic crisis. Fearing to change how they live, many people prefer to continue lying rather than acknowledge that we are facing a very uncertain but undoubtedly unpleasant future unless we learn how to prefer the truths of the real world in which we live rather than the comforting lies that ultimately betray us. We are capable of changing, but will we choose to do this? "Dorothy Rowe's is the calm voice of reason in an increasingly mad world" Sue Townsend Dorothy Rowe is a world-renowned psychologist and writer. She shows how we each live in a world of meaning that we have created. She applies this understanding to important aspects of our lives, such as emotional distress, happiness, growing old, religious belief, politics, money, friends and enemies, extraverts and introverts, parents, children and siblings. Her work liberates us from the bamboozling lies that mental health experts and politicians tell in order to keep us in our place and themselves in power. Wednesday, March 03, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / In Conversation Geoff Dyer Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi Published by: Text Publishing In conversation with Geordie Williamson Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi ‘A wonderfully entertaining book…once or twice it is so frightfully funny that it verges upon the hysterical ... a prodigious display of virtuosity.’ Guardian ‘Dyer is one of my favourite of all contemporary writers. I love his sense of the absurd, his pessimism mixed with robust good cheer, his beautifully crafted sentences, his jokes and his intelligence. Please take the time to read it and fall under his spell.’ Alain de Botton Don’t miss the chance to hear and meet one of the funniest and entertaining writers to emerge for some time. Geoff Dyer comes to gleebooks on his way to Adelaide Writer’s Week. He’ll speak with literary critic and book reviewer Geordie Williamson. Ah Venice! The canals, palazzos, gondoliers, vaporetti…the bellinis. Jeff Atman, hack writer, is in town for the Biennale. Ostensibly to fulfil a freelance commission; actually to soak up as much free booze as logistically possible. Then he meets Laura. Suddenly, amid the compulsive socialising and irony-clad banter, there is the possibility of something more. And then, Varanasi. A freelance writer arrives to do a travel piece. Just a short visit: time to take in the impossible traffic, the epic waters of the Ganges, the bustling ghats and multifarious gods; and to encounter destiny. A tale of two very different cities that appear surprisingly similar. Two separate stories that may, in fact, be one. Ingenious and vastly entertaining, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is a novel about love, death—and the various processes of transformation. From the book: ‘In my experience,’ he said, ‘the thing about life-changing experiences is that they wear off surprisingly quickly so that after a few weeks you emerge from them pretty much unchanged. Nine times out of ten, in fact, it’s precisely the life-changing experience that enables you to come to terms with the unchangingness of your own life. That’s why those novels are so popular, you know, the ones that culminate in a day or an event that will “change all of their lives forever”. It’s a fiction.’ Geoff Dyer is the author of three previous novels, a critical study of John Berger and six other non-fiction books including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Dyer lives in London and contributes to numerous publications including the Observer, Guardian and New Statesman. He is a guest of Adelaide Writer’s Week. Geordie Williamson is the Chief Literary Reviewer for The Australian. He has a regular spot talking about books on 702’s Mornings with Deb Cameron. Thursday, March 04, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / In Conversation David Finkel The Good Soldiers Published by: Scribe publications Presented by Gleebooks and the Walkley Foundation In conversation with Eric Campbell Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy The Good Soldiers It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as 'the surge'. 'Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences', he told a sceptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. What is the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions that the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. He was with Battalion 2-16 in Baghdad almost every gruelling step of the way. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, Finkel has also produced an eternal tale - not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time. 'From a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of his powers comes an incandescent and profoundly moving book: powerful, intense, enraging. This may be the best book on war since the Iliad.' Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book 'An extremely fluent and vivid, and compulsively readable, piece of work.' Owen Richardson, The Age 'The most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war I've ever read.' Fortune Magazine David Finkel is the national enterprise editor of The Washington Post. He joined the Post in 1990 and has worked for the paper's national, foreign, and magazine staffs. He has reported from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and throughout the United States, and was part of the Post's war coverage in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. Among Finkel's journalism honours are a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. He has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times, for both explanatory reporting and feature writing. A 1977 graduate of the University of Florida, Finkel is married, has two daughters, and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Eric Campbell is one of Australia's most experienced international reporters. In a 20-year career he has worked in more than 60 countries, specialising in Asia and the former Soviet Union. He was the ABC's Moscow Correspondent from 1996 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2003 was based in Beijing covering China, Afghanistan and Central Asia until he was wounded in a suicide bombing in Kurdistan in the first days of the Iraq war. After recovering from his injuries, Eric joined Foreign Correspondent as its Sydney-based roving reporter. Eric has won a Logie Award for news reporting and a New York Festivals world medal for environmental reporting. He was a two-time Walkley Awards finalist for his coverage of the Kosovo war. In 2005 his book Absurdistan was published, documenting the highs and lows of being a reporter in some of the strangest, most dysfunctional places on Earth. Friday, March 05, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk Sarah Dunant Sacred Hearts Published by: Hachette In conversation Nerida Newbigin Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy Sacred Hearts Direct from (if not on her way to) the Adelaide Writers’ Festival comes Sarah Dunant, bestelling author of the Italian Renaissance novels - The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan – and now, completing the tryptich, Sacred Hearts, which have become international bestsellers and received wide critical acclaim. “A writer of powerful historical imagination and wicked literary gifts” Simon Schama “She writes like a painter and thinks like a philosopher … a tour de force of storytelling” Amanda Foreman 1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara, and the convent of Santa Caterina is filled with noble women who are married to Christ because many cannot find husbands outside. Enter sixteen-year-old Serafina, ripped by her family from an illicit love affair, howling with rage and determined to escape. Her arrival disrupts the harmony and stability of the convent, which is overseen by Madonna Chiara, an abbess as fluent in politics as she is in prayer. She gives the novice Serafina over to the care of Suora Zuana, the scholarly nun who runs the dispensary and treats all manner of sicknesses. As an unlikely relationship builds between the two women, other figures stand watching and waiting, notably the novice mistress, Suora Umiliana, a crusader for ever stricter piety, and the mysterious Suora Magdalena, incarcerated in her cell, with a history of ecstasy and visions. While on the other side of the great walls, counter-reformation forces in the Church are pushing for change, inside, Serafina’s spirit and defiance ignite a fire that threatens to engulf the whole convent. Sarah Dunant’s Italian Renaissance novels have become international bestsellers and received wide critical acclaim. Each book in itself is a individual dramatic journey set in a different Italian city. Meticulously researched, they bring alive not just people and their stories but also the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feel of the world they inhabited. Sacred Hearts completes the triptych, joining The Birth of Venus and The Company of the Courtesan. Sarah Dunant studied history at Newnham College Cambridge in the early 1970s, from where she went on to become a writer, broadcaster and critic. She has written eleven novels, four of which have been short listed for awards, three screen plays and edited two books of essays. Her most recent, The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan have been international bestsellers. For several years she presented the BBC television’s coverage of the Man Booker prize for fiction. She was a founding patron of the Orange Prize for women's fiction, and writes and reviews for many British newspapers including The Times, the Observer and the Guardian, and sits on the editorial board of The Royal Academy’s art magazine. Sarah has taught at Goldsmith College at University of London and Washington University at St Louis and lectures regularly to American students in Florence. In 2011 she will co-curate a major exhibition on women in the renaissance to pen at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. Nerida Newbigin taught Italian Language and Literature at the University of Sydney from 1970 until her retirement in December 2008. She is now a full-time researcher. Her research interests are philological and historical: the history of theatre and performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, late medieval lay piety, and the editing and interpretation of theatrical texts and archival material. Saturday, March 06, 2010 / 3 - 4pm Special Event Rachel Spratt Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion Venue: St Johns little church hall, opposite St Johns Church, St Johns Road, Glebe Cost: Free RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion We invite you to join us in celebrating the release of the third collection of Nanny Piggins’ exploits: Nanny Piggins and the Runaway Lion. Rachel Spratt, creator of this sassy runaway circus star, will bring her to life & have you longing for your own idiosyncratic family help. Along with laughter, book readings and chatting with the author, there’ll be refreshments and diversions such as a chocolate treasure hunt. As a launch special, you can buy all three books for just $29.95 (that’s three for the price of two!) Come along for a snorting good time. NB: RSVP essential! Wednesday, March 10, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / In Conversation Malcolm Fraser and Margaret Simons Malcolm Fraser: the Political Memoirs Published by: Melbourne University Press In conversation Ray Martin Venue: Seymour Centre Cost: $20/$15 conc. and gleeclub Book: Seymour Centre Ph: 9351 7940 www.seymourcentre.com.au This event is a must for everyone interested in Australian politics and political history, whether on the left or the right. Malcolm Fraser is one of the least known, most interesting and possibly most misunderstood of Australia's Prime Ministers. In this part memoir and part authorised biography, Fraser explains himself and his record in government for the first time, speaking from his experience to the present and the future. Written in collaboration with journalist Margaret Simons, the book traces the story of a shy boy who was raised to be seen and not heard, yet grew to become one of the most persistent, insistent and controversial political voices of our times. From the Vietnam War to the Dismissal and his years as Prime Minister, through to his many disputes with the Howard Government, Fraser emerges as an enduring liberal, constantly reinterpreting core values to meet the needs of changing times. Margaret Simons is a freelance journalist and writer, and also a senior lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology. She has written numerous books and essays, including The Meeting of the Waters, and The Content Makers: Understanding the Australian Media. Tuesday, March 16, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk Clive Hamilton Requiem for a Species Published by: Allen & Unwin Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings ... One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future. Sometimes facing up to the truth is just too hard. There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act. But around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming. This book is about why we have ignored those warnings, so that now it is too late. It is a book about the frailties of the human species: our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. It is the story of a battle within us between the forces that should have caused us to protect the earth, like our capacity to reason and our connection to nature, and our greed, materialism and alienation from nature, which, in the end, have won out. And it is about the 21st century consequences of these failures, and what we can do now. Because we don't have to take this lying down. 'Requiem for a Species magnificently captures the idea that by and large, none of us want to believe that climate change is real. It explains our inability to seriously weigh the evidence of climate change, and to take appropriate action to ensure our own survival.' - Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia 'Clive Hamilton, as usual, has courageously challenged the current nature of our society in this inspirational new book.' - Graeme Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research Monday, March 22, 2010 / 6.30 for 7pm Dinner Matthew Evans The Real Food Companion Published by: Murdoch Books Venue: Hickson Road Bistro at Sydney Theatre 20 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay Cost: $250 for 2, $170 for 1, both include one copy of the book $89.95 Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy The Real Food Companion Gleebooks dinners at Hickson Road Bistro are always popular and seats are at a premium. While savouring a wonderful three course meal prepared from recipes in The Real Food Companion, hear Matthew talk about his approach to food and about his new life growing food and cooking in Tasmania’s Huon Valley. In The Real Food Companion, Matthew shows us how to ethically source, cook and eat real food. Written with gusto and filled with information to inspire, with a huge range of recipes to nurture the soul and family, The Real Food Companion taps into the current back-to-basics approach to buying and cooking food. It features tried and tested recipes, including techniques for how to make things such your own ricotta and clotted cream. It's the farmer, butcher, fishmonger and baker by your side. Matthew is passionate about the importance of returning to locally grown produce, not only to support regional agriculture and best practice farming, but to celebrate the true taste and flavour of real food – cooked from the heart and brought steaming to the table. The fresh, modern and eye-catching design and stunning food and location photography will ensure this comprehensive cookbook stands out on the shelves. It will appeal to dedicated foodies as well as novice cooks looking for a reliable and up-to-date kitchen companion. Matthew Evans is a former restaurant critic, food writer and chef and currently has a series on SBS – Gourmet Farmer. Sunday, March 28, 2010 / 3.30 for 4pm Special Event Sunday Book Club The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe Cost: Free RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place Buy The Legacy by Kirsten Tranter Join SBC moderator, Morgan Smith and author Kirsten Tranter, to talk about Kirsten’s debut novel, The Legacy. Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune and leaves Australia, and her friends, and Ralph who loves her, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world. There she becomes the stepmother to Gil's teenage artist daughter Fleur, a former child prodigy, and studies ancient curse scrolls at Columbia University. But at 9am on September 11, 2001, she has an appointment downtown. And is never seen again. Or is she? Searching for clues about Ingrid's life a year later, her friend Julia uncovers only further layers of mystery and deception. Both an unputdownable mystery and a compelling meditation on the nature of art, truth, friendship and love, THE LEGACY announces the arrival of a major new talent.           gleebooks pty ltd - ABN: 87 000 357 317        © 1996-2010 gleebooks & MetaForm.   All rights reserved.