THE OASIS TOUR FEB – MAR 2025
The Oasis tour, unlike the Great Australian Bookshop Tour, will be short and sharp. Graeme and Anne will hit Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Apollo Bay and (after a short break) Tasmania, all before end of March (they have a third book to write).
‘Oasis’ suggests refreshment, and we’ll do what we can to deliver on that!
Wed 26 February 1230pm-130pm Signing at Readings Emporium, Melbourne Central
Wed 26 February 2025 6pm Melbourne Launch, Northcote Library ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT (apparently)
Thu 27 Feb 2025 Sydney Launch: 630pm Better Read than Dead
Fri 28 Feb 2025 1230pm Sydney: Manly Library
Fri 28 Feb 2025 6pm Sydney Mechanics School of Arts
Sun 2 March 930am Adelaide Writers Week – ‘Conscious Coupling’
Tue 4 March 2025 630pm Brisbane Riverbend Books
Wed 5 Mar 2025 630pm Gold Coast Robina Library CANCELLED DUE TO CYCLONE ALFRED
Fri 7 Mar 2025 6pm Apollo Bay Sharks Cricket Clubrooms
Sat 8 Mar, signing at Lorne Books, Great Ocean Road, 11am.
Sat 22 March
Event in Mornington (morning) details to come.
Sat 22 March Inverloch Library in conversation with Remi Pearson 230pm
Tue Mar 25 530pm Devonport
Wed 26 March 530pm Launceston
Thu 27 March 530pm Hobart
PAST EVENTS
Jan 2025 Ceylon Literary and Arts Festival
Thursday 19 Dec 2024 1pm-5pm Pouring champagne and signing books at Ladyhawke Bookshop, Ivanhoe (Melbourne). (That was a lot of fun).
Graeme and Anne were on the road from March to August 2024, aiming to visit every bookshop in Australia. They got to most of them – 400 in all. The tour has its own website, which will soon be consolidated with this one. (A summary of visits below).
Date | Bookshop | Event |
26/3 | Avid Reader Brisbane | Writing seminar and talk with Nick Earls |
| Dymocks, Queen St Brisbane |
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| Riverbend Books, Brisbane |
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27/3 | Readings Carlton | Launch with Jayashri Kulkarni and Heidi Everett |
28/3 | Dymocks 234 Collins St, Melbourne |
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| Hill of Content, Melbourne |
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| The Paperback Bookshop, Melbourne |
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| Brunswick St Bookstore, Fitzroy |
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| Readings State Library, Melbourne |
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| Readings Emporium, Melbourne |
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| QBD Emporium, Melbourne |
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| Mary Martin Southbank, Melbourne |
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1/4 | Coventry Bookshop South Melbourne |
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| The Avenue Albert Park |
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| Dymocks Victoria Gardens Richmond |
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| The Avenue Richmond |
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| Readings Hawthorn |
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1/4 | Sun Bookshop Yarraville |
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28/3 | Fairfield Bookshop | Austin Hospital Event |
| Collins Booksellers, Sunbury |
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28/3 | Red Door Lancefield | Evening event featuring Pete Walsh and Double Oaks Wines |
30/3 | Stoneman’s Castlemaine | Signing |
| Bookish Bendigo | Signing |
| Aesop’s Kyneton | Signing |
Tue 2/4 | Turn the Page, Cowes | Signing and Library Seminar |
| The Hare and Tortoise Korumburra | Signing |
| Need2Read, Warragul |
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| Traralgon books |
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| QBD Traralgon |
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| Readers Emporium, Traralgon | Traralgon Library event with Jacqui Almack-Onley and Abbas Mehran |
3/4 | Collins Booksellers, Sale |
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3/4 | Lakes Books and Games, Lakes Entrance | Afternoon event at Lakes Entrance Library |
| The Book Orchard, Bairnsdale | Writing seminar and Evening event at Paperchase Café |
4/4 | Collins Booksellers, Merimbula |
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| Candelo Books, Bega |
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| Moruya Books | Lunch event |
5/4 | Harbour Bookshop, Ulladulla | Morning event at Shoalhaven Library with Meredith Jaffe |
| Boobook on Owen, Huskisson |
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| Nowra Books n Gifts |
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| Dymocks Nowra |
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| Berry Bookshop and Newsagency |
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| Kiama Bookshop | Evening event at Kiama Library |
| Bouquiniste Pty Ltd | Signing |
6/4 | QBD Shellharbour |
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| The Bookshop, Bowral | Signing |
| Berkeleow Books, Berrima |
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| QBD Campbelltown |
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| Harry Hartog Narellan |
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| QBD Liverpool |
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| QBD Hurstville |
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| Harry Hartog, Miranda |
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| QBD Miranda |
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| The Best Little Bookshop in Town, Cronulla |
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7/4 | Dymocks Neutral Bay opens 10am Sun |
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| Three Sparrows Books, Mosman 10-4 Sun |
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| Berkeleow Books, Balgowlah |
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| Humphreys, Manly |
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| Dymocks Warringah Mall |
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| Harry Hartog Warringah Mall |
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| Berkeleow Mona Vale |
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| Bookoccin, Avalon Beach |
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| Harry Hartog Macquarie Centre |
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| Dymocks Macquarie Centre |
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| Dymocks Lane Cove |
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8/4 | Kinokuniya, Sydney |
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| Dymocks, George St, Sydney | Literary Lunch Four Seasons with Ben Bravery |
| Abbeys Bookshop, Sydney |
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| Potts Pt Bookshop |
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| Woolhara Books |
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| Berkelouw, Paddington |
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| Ariel’s, Paddington |
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9/4 | Dymocks Chatswood |
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| QBD Chatswood |
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| Burns Bay Bookery |
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| Bookface NorthBridge |
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| Berkelouw Rose Bay |
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| Dymocks Eastgate, Bondi Junction |
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| Harry Hartog Bondi Junction |
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| QBD Bondi Junction |
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| Gertrude & Alice Bondi Beach |
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| Modern times, Newtown |
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| Better Read than Dead, Newtown | Evening drinks and signing |
10/4 | QBD Broadway |
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| Harry Hartog Marrickville |
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| Wollongong Library lunch event with Bookseller Harbour Bookshop, Ulladulla (reprise) |
| Collins Booksellers, Illawarra / Thirroul |
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| Dymocks Wollongong |
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| QBD Wollongong |
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10/4 | Constant Reader, Sydney | Evening event at Randwick Library with Catherine Du Peloux Menagé |
11/4 | Glee Books, Glebe |
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| Hill of Content Balmain |
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| Roaring Stories, Balmain |
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| Berkelouw Leichardt |
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| Dymocks Burwood |
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| Alfie and Noa, Castle Hill |
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| Dymocks Rouse Hill |
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| QBD Blacktown |
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| Dymocks Parramatta |
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| QBD Parramatta |
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| Turning Page Bookshop, Springwood | Springwood Library evening event with Amy Sambrooke and Angie Scoble. |
12/4 | Harry Hartog Penrith |
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| QBD Penrith |
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| Megalong Books, Leura |
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| The Wandering Bookseller (Little Lost Bookshop), Katoomba |
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13/4 | Glee Books, Blackheath | Signing |
| A Reader’s Heaven, Lithgow |
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| Books Plus Bathurst |
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| Collins, Orange (145km 2 hours from Blackheath) | Orange Library Seminar and Talk |
14/4 | The Yass Bookstore | Morning event with Barbie Robinson from Living Arts |
| Bookface, Gungahlin |
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| Dymocks, Belconnen |
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| QBD, Belconnen |
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| Book Passion |
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15/4 | Aust. National Gallery Bookshop |
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| Aust Portrait Gallery Bookshop |
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| National Arboretum Bookshop |
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| Dymocks, Canberra |
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| QBD Canberra Centre |
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| National Library Shop |
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| Paperchain Bookshop |
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| Harry Hartog ANU | Evening event with Yenn Purkis |
16/4 | Muse |
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| Harry Hartog Tuggeranong |
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| Harry Hartog Woden |
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| QBD Woden |
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| Marion (Canberra Writers) Seminar bookseller Harry Hartog (ANU) reprise |
17/4 | Collins Booksellers, Wagga Wagga 250km |
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| QBD Wagga Wagga |
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| Dymocks Albury |
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| QBD Albury |
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| Booktique, Albury | Evening event |
18/4 | Beechworth Books |
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| Bright Bookshop |
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19/4 | Ink Mansfield |
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18/4 | Wangaratta Booktique | Signing |
| Edgars Wangaratta | Evening event at Where is My Coffee with Project 365 |
19/4 | Collins Booksellers, Shepparton | Evening event at Mooroopna Library |
20/4 | Happy Valley, Collingwood
| Street event with Piccolino icecreams |
| Dymocks, Eastland |
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| QBD Eastland |
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| Collins Booksellers, Croydon | Evening event at Littorio’s Café with Heather Zuber |
21/4 | North Melbourne Books |
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| QBD Highpoint |
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| Dymocks Highpoint |
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| Robinsons Highpoint |
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| Collins Moonee Ponds |
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| WH Smith Melb Airport Qantas airside – 1 |
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| WH Smith Melb Airport Qantas airside – 2 |
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| Runway News, Hobart Qantas airside |
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22/4 | Dymocks Hobart |
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| Hobart bookshop |
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| Cracked and Spineless, Hobart |
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| QBD Hobart Eastlands |
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| Black Swan, New Norfolk |
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| Southern Swan, Cygnet |
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| Fullers Hobart
| Morning coffee seminar and evening event |
23/4 | The Book Cellar Campbell Town |
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| Not Just Books, Burnie |
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| Window on the World, Ulverstone |
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| Devonport Bookshop | Signing |
| Petrarchs, Launceston | Evening event with Stay ChatTy |
24/4 | The Launceston Store – Launceston Airport |
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| WH Smith Qantas Arrivals |
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24/4 | Eltham Bookshop | Evening event |
| Buck Mulligans | Whiskey and Writing soiree |
25/4 |
| Sorrento Writers Fest and Peninsula Festival Bookshop– 2 sessions (The Avenue Bookshop, reprise) |
| Antipodes Bookshop, Sorrento |
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26/4 | Mary Martin, Victoria Market |
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28/4 | Robinsons, Greensborough |
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| QBD, Doncaster |
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| Dymocks, Doncaster |
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| Readings, Doncaster |
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| QBD, Forest Hill |
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| Robinsons, Glen Waverley |
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29/4 | Dymocks, Point Cook |
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| QBD Werribee |
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| Robinsons Werribee |
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| Cook and Young, Geelong |
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| QBD Geelong |
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| BookGrove, Ocean Grove | Afternoon signing with Leopold VIEW |
| Heads and Tails, Barwon Heads |
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| The Bookstore at Queenscliff |
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| Waurn Ponds, Dymocks | Books in Bars event, Waurn Ponds Hotel. |
30/4 | Torquay books |
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| Lorne Books |
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| Collins Booksellers, Warrnambool |
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| Blarney Books, Port Fairy | Evening event |
1/5 | Collins Mt Gambier |
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| Beyond Words, Keith |
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| Matilda, Stirling |
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| Shakespeares Booksellers, Blackwood |
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| QBD Marion |
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2/5 | Dymocks Adelaide | Books in Bars at Howling Owl |
| QBD Rundle Mall |
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| Orchard Bookshop, Adelaide |
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| Imprints, Adelaide |
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| O’Connells, Adelaide |
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| QBD Tea Tree Plaza |
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| QBD Elizabeth |
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| One more Page, Kadina | Afternoon event |
3/5 | Meg’s Bookshop, Port Pirie | Port Pirie Library morning event |
6/5 | The Book Boutique on Burt, Boulder, Kalgoorlie | Signing |
7/5 | Dear Village, Esperance | Evening event |
8/5 | Paperbark Merchants, Albany | Evening event with Leisa Morton at Six Degrees |
9/5 | QBD Carousel (Cannington) |
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| Dymocks Booragoon (Garden City) |
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| Crow books |
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| Typeface Books Applecross |
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| QBD Belmont |
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| Dymocks Hay St, Perth | Evening event with Julia Lawrinson |
10/5 | Millpoint Caffé Bookshop S. Perth |
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| Dymocks Subiaco |
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| The Subiaco Bookshop, Subiaco |
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| Boffins Books |
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| Collins Cottesloe |
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| The Lane Bookshop, Claremont |
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| Talk at The Studio School, Fremantle |
| New Edition, Fremantle |
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| Open Book Mosman Park | Evening event |
11/5 | Dymocks Karrinyup |
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| QBD Hillarys (Whitfords) |
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| Dymocks Joondalup |
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| QBD Joondalup |
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| QBD Clarkson |
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| Dymocks Midland |
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| QBD Midland |
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| Dymocks Ellenbrook |
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| Dymocks Morley Galleria |
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12/5 | QBD, Innaloo |
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| Planet Books, Northbridge |
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| Beaufort St Books, Mt Lawley |
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| Planet Books, Mt Lawley – Austin |
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| Diabolik Books, Mt Hawthorn |
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| Rabble Books and Games, Maylands |
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14/5 |
| WA Writers seminar at State Library from 10-1pm. Bookseller Dymocks Morley Gallery (reprise)
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16/5 | QBD Rockingham |
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| QBD Mandurah |
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| Collins Booksellers, Bunbury |
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| Dymocks Busselton |
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| Viva Books, Busselton |
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| Text and Co Dunsborough |
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17/5 | Margaret River Books |
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| Margaret River Festival Seminar and Opening Presentation with Gillian O’Shaughnessy (Bookseller Margaret River Books – reprise) |
18/5 | Stefens Bookshop, Perth |
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22/5 | Read On Books, Pagewood, Eastgardens (Sydney) |
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| UNSW bookshop |
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23/5 |
| Sydney Writers Festival session with Sana Qadar (Bookseller Gleebooks reprise) |
24/5 | Gleebooks Dulwich Hill |
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25/5 | Novella, Wahroonga |
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| Berkeleow Hornsby |
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| QBD Hornsby |
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| The Book Nook Umina, Umina Beach |
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| Bookface, Erina |
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| QBD, Erina |
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26/5 | QBD Tuggerah |
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| QBD Charlestown |
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| Harry Hartog, Kotara |
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| QBD Kotara |
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| McDonalds Bookshop, Maitland | Event at Singleton Library |
27/5 | Maitland Library Breakfast (Bookseller, McDonalds, reprise) | |
| Harry Hartog Green Hills |
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| Macleans, Newcastle
| Toronto Library lunchtime talk |
| Readers Retreat Salamander Bay
| Evening event with Yacaaba Centre |
28/5 | Collins Booksellers, Port Macquarie | Morning event |
| Bookface, Port Macquarie |
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| The Book Warehouse, Coffs Harbour | Signing |
| QBD Coffs Harbour |
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| Book Warehouse, Grafton | Grafton Library evening event |
29/5
| The Book Warehouse Lismore | Signing |
| The Book Warehouse, Ballina | Signing |
| The Bookroom at Lennox Head |
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| The Bookroom at Byron, Byron Bay |
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| Bookshop Mullumbimby |
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| QBD Tweed Heads |
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| Boardwalk Books, Kingscliff | Signing |
| QBD, Pacific Fair Gold Coast |
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| Bookface, Pacific Fair |
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30/5 | QBD, Australia Fair, Gold Coast Walk |
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| QBD Robina Gold Coast |
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| QBD, Runaway Bay, Gold Coast |
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| Bookness, Mudgeeraba | Evening event |
| QBD, Coomera |
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31/5 | Under the Greenwood Tree, N Tamborine | Signing and talk |
| The Really Good Bookshop, Hillcrest, Logan |
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| QBD Loganholme |
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| QBD Browns Plains |
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| QBD Ipswich |
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| Dymocks Toowoomba |
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| QBD Toowoomba |
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| The Book Tree, Toowoomba |
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1/6 | QBD, Brisbane |
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| Dymocks, Indooroopilly |
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| QBD, Indooroopilly |
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| The Library Shop, State Library of Qld | Brisbane Writers Festival with Jane Sullivan, State Library of Queensland |
2/6 | QBD Chermside (also visited) | Redcliffe Library Event |
| QBD North Lakes |
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| Dymocks Chermside |
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| News Travels (News 1) Brisbane airport |
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7/6 | Dymocks Tooronga |
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| Readings, Malvern |
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| Jeffreys, Malvern |
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9/6 | Williamstown Book and Paper |
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| The Chestnut Tree, W Footscray |
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10/6 | Dymocks Prahran |
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| Collins Hawksburn Our Bookshop |
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| Avoca Hill, South Yarra |
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12/6 | QBD Plenty Valley (Mill Park) |
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| QBD Northland |
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| Ladyhawke, Ivanhoe |
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13/6 | Baffies Oan | Signing |
| QBD Strathpine |
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| QBD Morayfield 49k N |
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| The Little Book Nook, Palmwoods |
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| Rosetta Books, Maleny | Evening event with Alex Penhaligon |
14/6 | The Junction Bookstore, Noosa Junction | Morning event at Noosaville Library |
| Bookshop at Caloundra |
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| Harry Hartog Maroochydore |
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| QBD Maroochydore |
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| Noosa Heads Village bookshop |
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15/6 | Little Shop of Soul | Writing Seminar Cooroy Library |
| Berkelouw Eumundi |
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| Annie’s Bookshop, Peregian |
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16/6 | The River Read, Noosaville |
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17/6 | QBD Hervey Bay |
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| Dymocks Bundaberg | Evening event at Bundaberg Library with Barb Cook |
18/6 | QBD Rockhampton |
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19/6 | QBD Caneland, Mackay |
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20/6 | QBD Willows Kirwan |
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| Mary Who, Townsville | Evening event with Tenille |
21/6 | Cairns Books |
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| QBD Cairns |
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22/6 | Whileaway Bookshop, Port Douglas | 1 (mentioned in town 7-21 June) |
24/6 | Relay bookshop, Cairns Airport |
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| Tableland Books Atherton | Signing and talk |
27/6 | Wise Words, Moree | Lunch event at Moree Town and Country Club |
28/6 | Collins Armidale | Signing |
| Collins Books Tamworth | Signing |
29/6 | The Book Connection, Dubbo |
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| QBD Dubbo |
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| The Book Nest, Mudgee | Signing |
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| Bathurst Library with Kate Nankervis, Bookseller Books Plus (reprise) |
30/6 |
| Lunch event at Gooloogong, Bookseller Collins Booksellers, Orange (reprise) |
1/7 | Collins Books, Griffith | Griffith Library evening event. |
2/7 |
| Mystery Evening, Convenor Mary Martin (reprise) |
3/7 | Neighbourhood Books |
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5/7 | The Kilmore Bookstore |
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| Collins Booksellers, Echuca | Campaspe Library evening event |
6/7 | Collins Booksellers, Swan Hill |
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| Collins Booksellers, Mildura | Signing and talk |
7/7 | The Broken Hill Bookshop | Signing and talk |
8/7 | QBD West Lakes |
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| Dymocks Hyde Park |
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| Mostly Books, Torrens Park |
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| Harry Hartog Burnside |
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| Dillons Norwood |
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| Dymocks, Glenelg |
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9/7 |
| Burnside Library, Adelaide, evening event. Bookseller Shakespeares (reprise) |
11/7 | Red Kangaroo Books, Alice Springs (Mparntwe) | Afternoon signing and talk |
| The Bookshop, Darwin | Evening event |
| QBD Darwin |
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| News Travels Darwin Airport |
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| QBD Collonades |
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| South Seas Books and Trading | Signing |
18/7 | Redrock Books and Gallery, Horsham | Signing |
| Halls Gap |
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19/7 | Bellcourt Books Hamilton |
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| Ironbird, Port Fairy |
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20/7 | Great Escape, Airey’s Inlet |
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| Mary Martin, Port Melbourne |
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| QBD Southland |
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21/7 | QBD Broadmeadows |
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| QBD Epping |
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22/7 | QBD Melton Woodgrove |
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| Collins Booksellers, Ballarat | Evening event with Renee Price |
23/7 | Collins Booksellers Bridge Mall, Ballarat |
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| Leopold View Club, Geelong, lunch event, Bookseller Bookgrove (reprise) |
| Book Bird, Geelong | Seminar and Event, Geelong Library with Kgshak Akee |
24/7 | Readings St Kilda |
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| The Avenue Elsternwick |
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| The Grumpy Swimmer, Elwood |
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| Brighton Thesaurus |
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| Brighton Top Titles |
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| Ulysses Hampton |
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| Beaumaris books |
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| Cook and Young, Cheltenham |
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| QBD Southland |
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| Dymocks Chadstone |
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| Benns books Bentleigh | Signing |
26/7 | Robinsons Frankston |
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| QBD Bayside |
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| Farrells Mornington |
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| Rosebud Book Barn, Rosebud |
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27/7 | The Novel Nook, Yarra Glen |
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| Verso Healesville |
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| Grace and Louie, Emerald |
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| Book Barn Belgrave |
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| Robinsons, Fountain Gate |
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| QBD Fountain Gate |
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| QBD Knox City |
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| Dymocks Knox City |
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| The Novel Idea, Toorak |
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| Cook and Young, Camberwell |
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| The Leaf Bookshop, Ashburton |
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1/8 | Robinsons Airport West |
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| QBD Watergardens |
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8/8 | Kimberly Bookshop Broome | Signing |
18/8 | Nice Stack of Books Meeniyan Vic | Signing |
| News Link Sydney airport (airside) |
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| Watermark Sydney airport (airside) |
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28/8 | Press Bookhouse, Newcastle | Evening Event for mental health workers |
29/8 | Newcastle Airport News Travels |
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| Bound Brisbane Airport |
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| News @ BNE, Brisbane Airport |
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| Harry Hartog Carindale |
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| QBD Carindale |
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| QBD Garden City |
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| QBD Mt Ommaney |
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| Books@Stones, Stones Corner Brisbane |
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| Mary Ryan’s New Farm |
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30/8 |
| Victoria Library, Brisbane, morning event, Bookseller Dymocks Brisbane (reprise) |
| Bright and Early |
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| QBD Kawana |
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8/9 | Beach Book Boutique, Airlie Beach | Whitsunday’s Writers Festival – 5 sessions |
17/9 | WH Smith Airside, Melbourne Int Airport |
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COMING SOON (once we incorporate the Great Australian Bookshop Tour)
