Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 15 February
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Readers are spoilt for choice: bookshops are overflowing with the great, the good (and the rest), and it could not be harder to choose what to read next. And let’s face it, a first-time local writer isn’t guaranteed of a guest spot on Rove, or the high-profile national tour.
Every fortnight, let DEBUT MONDAYS be your guide. Come and have a glass of wine and discover the best new writers around.
Under the spotlight for our kick-off event: Bob Franklin’s collection of literary horror stories, Under Stones, Andrew McDonald’s YA romp The Greatest Blogger in the World, Sofie Laguna’s Miles Franklin-longlisted One Foot Wrong and Our Girls, Madeleine Hamilton’s exploration of 40s and 50s Australian pinup girls.
Featuring
Bob Franklin
Bob Franklin is a highly respected writer, actor and comedian (perhaps most recognisable from The Librarians, Stupid Stupid Men and Thank God You’re Here).
He recently wrote and directed a short film called Corrections and has several other projects in pipelines. Bob’s work has been described in The Age as ‘genuinely subversive, dank and nasty’ and by the Herald Sun as ‘particularly dreadful’.
The stories in his debut collection Under Stones are not horror per se; they are much more unsettling than that. They are tales of unease set in familiar surrounds and whispered in your ear by a friendly stranger.
Madeleine Hamilton
Madeleine Hamilton is a long-term aficionado of mid-20th-century design and popular culture, and the owner of an extensive collection of posters, books and ephemera relating to American pin-ups girls.
In 2003 she commenced a four-year mission to uncover Australia’s pin-ups of the 40s and 50s that resulted in a PhD from the University of Melbourne as well as the SBS documentary ‘Paper Dolls: Australian Pin-up Girls of World War II’.
Sofie Laguna
Sofie Laguna was born in Sydney and moved to a farm in the country when she was 12. Beginning her career as an actor, she turned to writing in her 30s. She has written for children and young adults (Bird and Sugar Boy, My Yellow Blankie, Too Loud Lily and Bad Buster).
Her first adult novel, One Foot Wrong was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2009. Her most recent book for adults, The Eye of the Sheep, was shortlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. She lives in Melbourne.
Andrew McDonald
Andrew McDonald writes books for kids. He is the author of the bestselling Real Pigeons series and the Hello Twigs series (both illustrated by Ben Wood). Andrew lives in Naarm/Melbourne, where he makes up stories and ...