Books@TheBank
The Velvet Room, Bank Hotel
324 King Street
Newtown 2042
Bookings: 02 9557 8700
Books@TheBank is our premier author event programme, presented as a partnership between two of Newtown's finest businesses. Throughout the year we will present authors who will amuse you, entertain you, startle you and occaisonally wonder what sort of country we live in. The events take place on a Tuesday night and the small entry charge includes wine and canapes in the opulent Velvet Room.
Wine & Cheese
Robyn Williams & Richard Watson
Future Perfect & The Future Files
Tuesday, May 13th 6.30pm
This will be a great night to gaze into the future with these two popular commentators and writers.
Future Perfect is a book for those who believe we can shape the future of our earth, and that there is a moral responsibility for us to do just that. It's difficult to disembark once you're here, after all. Written in Robyn Williams' characteristically whimsical and provocative style, it conjures up the possibilities before us in our cities, our employment, our transport and even our sex lives. It confronts the challenges before us and does not shrink from the hard answers.
Future Files is filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century. It examines emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us. But Future Files is not primarily about prediction. Its goal is to liberate our collective and individual imaginations so that we can see the familiar in a new light and the unfamiliar with greater clarity, and to make individuals and organisations think about where we are going and to consider whether, when we get there, it will be worth staying.
Wine & Cheese with Robyn and Richard costs just $10.00 Book Now
Wine & CHeese
Thomas Kohnstamm
Do Travel Writers Go To Hell?
Tuesday, May 27th 6.30pm
In six weeks you have 1000 miles of Brazil's north-eastern coastline to cover by boat, bus and dune buggy. There are no less than 59 towns, villages and cities on this particular stretch of coastline. You are responsible for 147 hotel reviews, 152 bar and restaurant reviews and details on everything from bus schedules to border crossings. You spent half of your advance on your plane ticket down here and if you find a way to complete the required research in the next six weeks, you will have eight days to write all 112 pages that are due to your editor. Welcome to life as a professional travel writer.
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Wine & Cheese
Debra Adelaide
The Household Guide to Dying
Tuesday, 3rd June 6.30pm
Debra Adelaide is a Marrickville writer, freelance editor, and occasional book reviewer. She is the author of the bestselling parenting anthologies Motherlove (1996), Motherlove II (1997) and Cutting The Cord (1998); the novels The Hotel Albatross (1995) and Serpent Dust (1998); and the short story anthology, Acts of Dog (2003).
On the face of it, Delia's got it all - good marriage, two great kids, dream job writing witty, practical house and garden books. But when she's diagnosed with terminal cancer, she's forced to view her life in an entirely new light. There are things she must do, there are wrongs to be put right, and there are mysteries from the past that demand resolution.
But there is just so little time.
Summoning all her strength, she returns to the tiny country town where she fled pregnant and unmarried 14 years before and comes to terms with a loss no mother should ever have to endure. She finishes writing her ultimate how-to book. And she tries, as best she can, to prepare herself and her family for the inevitable ...
Moving, witty and wise, Debra Adelaide's brilliant new novel is destined to become a classic of contemporary Australian fiction.
Wine & Cheese with Deb costs just $10.00. Book Now