What's On @ Ashfield Library
For information on events and activities at Ashfield & Haberfield Library be sure to look at the Events Calendar on the home page of this website.
Authors at Ashfield
Authors at Ashfield is a popular series of free literary events presented by Ashfield Library. Come along to hear best-selling Australian and international authors, poets, journalists and personalities talk about their latest books and novels. The series has featured authors including Richard Glover, Tim Flannery, Bob Carr and Geraldine Brooks. All events are free. Books are available for sale and signing (except lectures). Better Read Than Dead are our booksellers. Venue is 260 Liverpool Road, Level 3 Civic Centre, Ashfield.Enquiries Therese Scott 9716 1821.
Ashfield Library has hosted an event for the Sydney Writers' Festival each year since 2002 - visit www.swf.org.au for more information.
Authors at Ashfield upcoming events:
Authors at Ashfield relocates to Haberfield Library from August 2010.
Please note that after July 15 Authors at Ashfield will relocate for the rest of 2010 to the Michael Maher Room, 78 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield.
This is because the Civic Centre lift will be removed and a new one installed as part of the Civic Centre redevelopment.
The 406 bus from Ashfield Station drops you off outside Haberfield Library, ring 131500 for timetable details or www.sydneybuses.com
There is some street parking available.
John Edwards : Edward Baker Boulton : Australia's forgotten artist
Tuesday 21 September at 11am, Michael Maher Room, Haberfield Library 78 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield. Please note change in time to 11am.
Local author John Edwards has written a beautifully produced study of a neglected 19th century watercolour artist (and grandfather of the writer Arthur Ransome). It is lavishly illustrated with over 80 plates, 39 of them in colour. The life and times of one of Australia's early colonial artists have been captured in a book that also contains examples of his fine landscapes. Book for sale and siging from the author.
"A bloody good book"- Gough Whitlam.
Hugh Mackay : What makes us tick? : the ten desires that drive us
Friday October 15 at 11am, Michael Maher Room, Haberfield Library, 78 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield.
Australia's preeminent social researcher, Hugh Mackay's new book is part reflection, part psychological analysis of the things he has learnt from the experience of listening to people talk about their dreams, their fears, their hopes, their disappointments, their frustrations and their fantasies. 'What makes us tick?' is provocative, insightful and inspiring work from one of Australia's greatest thinkers.
Susannah Fullerton and Michael Bartlett : Crimson Cats UK audio book company
Tuesday 19 October at 11am, Michael Maher Room, Haberfield Library 78 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield.
Crimson Cats is a UK based company which produces audio books on cd. Hear about the process of creating audio books from Michael Bartlett who is visiting from England. Susannah Fullerton will read from a selection of cds, including her own on Katherine Mansfield. Other titles include cds on Arthur Conan Doyle, Jerome K. Jerome, varous war diaries, the diary of a surgeon on board the Victory in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Stuart Ripley : Sculling and skulduggery : a history of professional sculling
Tuesday 26 October at 11am, Michael Maher Room, Haberfield Library 78 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield.
After Edward Trickett won the inaugural sculling world championship on the Thames in 1876, Australians dominated this sport for 61 years. Professional sculling attracted enormous crowds and inspired massive betting. 'Sculling and skullduggery' provides a comprehensive study of a sport that helped put Australia at the forefront. It examines the sport's meaning for Australian society. Haberfield Rowing Club is mentioned in this book. Book for sale and signing from the author.
Boyd Anderson : Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls
Friday 12 November at 11am, Michael Maher Room, Haberfield Library, 78 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield.
Cuba, 1959: in the final year of Errol Flynn's life, he found time for one last adventure and the chance to be a hero. Fidel Castro was the genuine article and now he was looking for fame. What each man had the other wanted and as revolution raged around them, the stage was set for an explosive encounter. Featuring a cast of Hollywood movie stars, beautiful women, Cuban revolutionaries and New York mobsters, Errol, Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls is the story of two men at the opposite ends of astonishing careers. It is a story with two heroes...but there is only ever room for one.
'Fiction based on actual events seems to be a growing sub-genre as authors discover footnotes to history as ripe fodder for their novels...it deserves to be hand-sold and pushed to the front of the store.' (Scott Whitmont, Lindfield Bookshop)
Better Read Than Dead, Newtown will sell copies of this novel on the day for signing.
Richard Glover : Why men are necessary: and more news from nowhere
Friday 26 November at 11am, Michael Maher Room, Haberfield Library, 78 Dalhousie Street Haberfield.
Meet the sexy and feisty Jocasta; confront teenage rebellion in the form of a fish called Wanda; do battle with magpies the size of small fighter jets; and try to work out which font you use when speaking the language of love. In Richard's stories everyday life becomes vivid, magical and laugh-out-loud funny.
This is ABC Radio 702 presenter Richard Glover's fourth visit to Authors at Ashfield. We are thrilled to welcome back one of our most popular local writers.
Better Read Than Dead, Newtown will sell copies on this book on the day for signing.
Thanks to our Authors at Ashfield Bookseller
