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Welcome to gleebooks literary events, Upstairs @ 49

Our David Sedaris event has been moved to the Sydney Opera House, and is now on Monday 18th August, starting at 6.30pm.

Existing ticket holders please contact the shop (9660 2333) for more information. For new bookings / tickets please contact the SOH on 9250 7777.


Streaming audio recordings of David Suzuki's Ultimate Tour and the Antony Lowenstein/My Israel Question Panel Discussion are online here.

The full events listing below is a summary of all events, launches & readings. For more information about an event, including how to book, click on the "Further Details / To Book" link.

Use the buttons, marked Events, Launches, Coming Soon located above to browse events details by event type.

Cost
Book launches are free and open to the public. Literary events are $10/$7 conc. (inc. GST) (unless otherwise marked).

All launches & events are held Upstairs @ 49
(unless otherwise stated)
gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Road
Glebe Sydney NSW
ph: 9660 2333


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Publisher and media enquiries to: Morgan Smith gleebooks Events Manager morgan@gleebooks.com.au

FEATURE
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Libertine
French/Vietnamese Restaurant
1 Kellet St
Kings Cross
6.30 for 7pm
Tracey Lister, Andrea Pohl
(Full Details)


    September 2008

Monday, September 08, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Editor_Julianne_Schultz Griffith REVIEW 21: Hidden Queensland
Editor Julianne Schultz
In conversation with Sally Loane

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Editor Julianne Schultz

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Socialism_is_Great_A_Worker’s_Memoir_of_the_New_China Lijia Zhang
Socialism is Great: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China
Published by: UWA Press
In conversation with Mabel Lee

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Socialism is Great: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Launch
Cultures_and_Globalization_The_Cultural_Economy<br>Helmut_Anheier_and_Yudhishthir_Raj_Isar Stuart Cunningham (guest editor) & Helmut Anheier
Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy
Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar


Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Cultures and Globalization: The Cultural Economy
Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar


Thursday, September 11, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
The_Brain_That_Changes_Itself_Stories_Of_Personal_Triumph_From_The_Frontiers_Of_Brain_Science Norman Doidge
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories Of Personal Triumph From The Frontiers Of Brain Science
Published by: Scribe Pub
In conversation with Paul Willis

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Brain That Changes Itself

Friday, September 12, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
My_Guantanamo_Diary_the_detainees_and_the_stories_they_told_me Mahvish Rukhsana Khan
My Guantanamo Diary: the detainees and the stories they told me
Published by: Scribe
In conversation with Mary Kostakidis

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy My Guantanamo Diary: the detainees and the stories they told me

Saturday, September 13, 2008 / 3.30 for 4pm Launch
Where_Did_I_Really_Come_From? Narelle Wickham
Where Did I Really Come From?
Published by: Learn-to-Include Pubs
To be launched by Margo Kingston

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Where Did I Really Come From?

Monday, September 15, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
The_Land_of_Plenty_Australia_In_The_2000s Mark Davis
The Land of Plenty: Australia In The 2000s
Published by: Melbourne University Press
In conversation with Miriam Lyons – Centre for Policy Development

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Land of Plenty: Australia In The 2000s

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Bomb_Book__and__Compass__Joseph_Needham_and_the_Great_Secrets_of_China Simon Winchester
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
Published by: Viking

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China

Wednesday, September 17, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Petty’s_Parallel_Worlds Bruce Petty
Petty’s Parallel Worlds
Published by: High Horse Books
In conversation with Bill Leak

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Petty’s Parallel Worlds

Thursday, September 18, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Eating_Between_the_Lines_Food_and_Equality_in_Australia Rebecca Huntley
Eating Between the Lines: Food and Equality in Australia
Published by: Black Inc
In conversation with Michael Symons

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Eating Between the Lines: Food and Equality in Australia

Friday, September 19, 2008 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Launch / Panel Discussion
Sophie_Cunningham_Anthony_Macris_Mark_Dapin_Jane_Gleeson-white Meanjin
Sophie Cunningham, Anthony Macris, Mark Dapin, Jane Gleeson-white

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Saturday, September 20, 2008 / 2.30 for 3pm Blackheath Launch
True_Thoughts Pam Brown
True Thoughts
To be launched by Carl Harrison-Ford

Venue: Hat Hill Gallery
3 Hat Hill Road, Blackheath

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy True Thoughts

Monday, September 22, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / In Conversation
Love_and_Loss_in_Baghdad Michael Hastings / Leilah Nadir
Love and Loss in Baghdad
Published by: MUP / Scribe
In conversation with Peter Manning

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy I Lost My love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story / The Orange Trees of Baghdad

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
The_Blogging_Revolution Antony Loewenstein
The Blogging Revolution
Published by: MUP
In conversation with Kate Crawford

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Blogging Revolution

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Seasick_the_Hidden_Ecological_crisis_of_the_global_ocean Alanna Mitchell
Seasick: the Hidden Ecological crisis of the global ocean
Published by: Murdoch Books
In conversation with Dr. Richard Smith

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Seasick: the Hidden Ecological crisis of the global ocean

Thursday, September 25, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Burning_Books Matthew Fishburn
Burning Books
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
In conversation with Markus Zusak

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Burning Books

Friday, September 26, 2008 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Launch
Contexts_of_Child_Development_Culture_Policy_and_Intervention Gary Robinson, Ute Eickelkamp Jacqueline Goodnow & Ilan Katz
Contexts of Child Development: Culture, Policy and Intervention
Published by: Charles Darwin University
To be launched TBA

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Saturday, September 27, 2008 / 3.30 for 4pm Launch/In Conversation
Green_is_Good_An_Insider’s_Account_of_the_battle_for_a_green_Australia Jeff Angel
Green is Good: An Insider’s Account of the battle for a green Australia
Published by: ABC Books
In conversation with Quentin Dempster

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Green is Good: An Insider’s Account of the battle for a green Australia

Sunday, September 28, 2008 / 3.30 for 4pm Special International Sunday Book Club
Life_of_Pi Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Published by: Text Publishing
In conversation with Morgan Smith

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Life of Pi

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
New_Writing_by_Interactive_Publications_authors Dr David Reiter
New Writing by Interactive Publications authors

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Primary Instinct


    October 2008

Wednesday, October 01, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
The_Lieutenant Kate Grenville
The Lieutenant
Published by: Text
In conversation with Catherine Keenan

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Lieutenant

Thursday, October 02, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
The_Costello_Memoirs Peter Costello & Peter Coleman
The Costello Memoirs

Venue: Eastern Avenue Auditorium
Sydney University
(entry via City Rd gate)

Cost: $15/$12 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Costello Memoirs

Wednesday, October 08, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Jihad_Seminar Hanifa Deen
Jihad Seminar
Published by: UWA Press
In conversation with Irfan Yusaf

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Jihad Seminar

Thursday, October 09, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
Arabesques Robert Dessaix
Arabesques
Published by: Pan Macmillan

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Arabesques

Friday, October 10, 2008 / 6.00 for 6.30pm Launch
Buckley’s Ken Buckley
Buckley’s!
Published by: A&A publishing
To be launched by Justice Michael Kirby

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Buckley’s!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Dinner
Koto__a_culinary_journey_through_Vietnam Tracey Lister, Andrea Pohl
Koto: a culinary journey through Vietnam

Venue: Libertine
French/Vietnamese Restaurant
1 Kellet St
Kings Cross

Cost: $180 for two with 1 copy of the book $49.95 $115 single with 1 copy of the book $49.95 Wine extra
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy Koto: a culinary journey through Vietnam

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 / 6.30 for 7pm Event / Talk
The_Naked_Truth Graeme Blundell
The Naked Truth
Published by: Hachette Livre
In conversation with Louis Nowra

Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe

Cost: $10/$7 conc. gleeclub welcome
Book: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or Request a place


Further Details / To Book

Buy The Naked Truth

 
     
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