Our Book Lists > Roaring Events > RS Book Events 2023
Another fabulous year of book events showcasing the breadth and depth of our writing community.
Our recorded interviews for each event can be found on the Roaring Stories Youtube page.
Slack Tide by Sarah Day
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Slack tide is the turning point when a body of tidal water can seem uncertain as to whether it is coming in or going out. While surface water may be deceptively calm at this time, below the surface huge divergent forces are at work. In the title of Sarah Day's ninth collection the term suggests the twen ...Show more
The Drowning by Bryan Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy, Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice continues in this unflinching, gripping novel. 'A work of rattling and serpentine suspense ... gripping and sinuous and so, so good.' Trent Dalton. The body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach of a sle ...Show more
Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything by Julia Baird
$34.99 AUD
Category: Self Development New Releases
From award-winning journalist Julia Baird, author of the acclaimed national bestseller Phosphorescence, comes Bright Shining, a luminously beautiful, deeply insightful and most timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities: grace. Grace is both mysterious and hard to defin ...Show more
Paul Bangay: A Life in Garden Design (HB) by Paul Bangay
$79.99 AUD
Category: Garden & Landscape
Paul Bangay is Australia's most sought-after garden designer, with close to forty years' experience. Known for his mastery of scale, balance, form and colour, Paul draws on his lifelong study of the natural and classical worlds to create gardens around the globe. This illustrated memoir explores the evo ...Show more
Killing for Country: A Family Story: Winner of the 2024 Indie Book of the Year Award by David Marr
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non Fiction
A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier wars. David Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal Native Police in the bloodiest years on the frontier. Killing for Country is the result - a soul-searching Australian history. This is a richly detailed sa ...Show more
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the st ...Show more
The Hummingbird Effect by Kate Mildenhall
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault. One of the lucky few with a job during the Depression, Peggy’s just starting out in life. She’s a baggin ...Show more
Other People's Homes: Suburban Kerb Appeal by Sandy Weir
$32.99 AUD
Category: Architecture & Interiors
Classic mid-century, Art Deco, migrant and beautifully unique homes from across the country, snapped by viral social media account, Other People's Homes. For fans of The Block, The Castle and nostalgic Aussie architecture. 'I adore perving at Australia's quirky and under-appreciated architectural under ...Show more
Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism by Leigh Sales
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non Fiction
Leigh Sales is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having anchored the ABC's flagship 7.30 program for twelve years. She has been a foreign correspondent, hosted Lateline and anchored numerous elections for the ABC. In this book, she turns her interviewing skills onto her own profession, ...Show more
The New Modernist House: Mid-Century Homes Renewed for Contemporary Living by Patricia Callan
$79.99 AUD
Category: Architecture & Interiors
The intuitive design, sun-lit spaces and tranquil vibe of Modernist houses still have an enduring appeal today. But can these homes be updated for contemporary living while maintaining the integrity of the original architecture? The New Modernist House presents twenty-one mid-century homes respectfully ...Show more
Shake Some Action: My life in music (and other stuff) by Stuart Coupe
$35.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The story of how a gangly, music-obsessed kid from Tassie did everything and met everyone - Shake Some Action is a rip-snorting rock 'n' roll ride through a life of power and passion. First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has e ...Show more
Unfinished Woman by Robyn Davidson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller, Tracks, the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom. In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea ...Show more