Eltham Bookshop World Matters Festival
15-16 October, Montsalvat, Eltham , Victoria.
Saturday 15th October, 1.15pm
Growing Up
Listen to unexpected stories that emerge when cultures clash and the mix of identities that make up a life. Elaine Kennedy’s Waiting for a Wide Horse Sky details the plight of migrant factory workers in South Korea and Tanveer Ahmed’s, Exotic Rissole, is an irreverent and very honest memoir of growing up with too much turmeric and complexities of an immigrant Bangladeshi family in Sydney.
Chair: Jane Sullivan, Literary columnist, The Age
Other guests at the festival include Kim Scott, Karen Middleton, Raimond Gaita and Arnold Zable.
Iran: My Grandfather by Ali Alizadeh
A LITERARY EVENING and FUNDRAISER
Featuring writers ARNOLD ZABLE (Violin Lessons and Café Scheherazade), NAJAF MAZARI and ROBERT HILLMAN (The Honey Thief and The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif) and ALI ALIZADEH (Ashes in the Air and Iran: My Grandfather).
Chaired by author and historian Dr MARIA TUMARKIN (Otherland and Traumascapes).
Thursday 6 October – 6:30-9pm
Malvern Town Hall,
Corner Glenferrie Road & High Street, Malvern
Tickets are $22 and available for purchase from
www.trybooking.com/VXW
OR
Najaf Mazari at 461 High St Prahran, (03) 9529 2068.
All proceeds go to the Mazar Development Fund.
Finger food and refreshments provided.
Book signings and sales on the night.
The Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage by Maya Ward
Wednesday 16 November, 7pm, at Nunawading Library, 379 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading
Any queries to Nunawading Library on 9872 8600.
Yarra Junction
Tasmanian Launch by Peter Hay
Thursday November 24 5.30pm for 6pm
Hobart Bookshop
22 Salamanca Square
Hobart , Tasmania
RSVP: hobooks@ozemail.com.au or 03 6223 1803
Enquiries: info@transitlounge.com.au
Monday 21 November 6.15pm
Wheeler Centre for Books, Ideas and Writing, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne – for more details go to www.wheelercentre.com
