Gretel Killeen

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Monday 6th July
$8.80( $6.60concession ) includes refreshments.
Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au  with your credit card details.

Gretel takes a long, hard and hilarious look at herself in the wake of some big life changes. Ten years ago she wrote flippantly of chasing parking officers whilst wearing a porridge face mask now she is facing her next obstacle course - the Female Midlife Crisis!

Peter FitzSimons

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Wednesday 29th July
$8.80( $6.60concession ) includes refreshments.
Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au  with your credit card details.

Known to millions of Australians simply as ‘Smithy’, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was one of Australia's true 20th century legends. In an era in which aviators were superstars, Smithy was among the greatest and, throughout his amazing career, his fame in Australia was matched only by that of Don Bradman.

Peter Thompson & Robert Macklin

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Wednesday 5th August
$8.80( $6.60concession ) includes refreshments.
Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au  with your credit card details.

The never-before-told story of BHP Billiton's global conquests, told by the key players.

BHP is part of Australia's DNA; but it remains an enigma. THE BIG FELLA: The rise and rise of BHP Billiton is the compelling story of how BHP and its partner Billiton rose from the humblest beginnings in the Australian Outback and on the Indonesian island of Belitung to starry heights on the great bourses of the world. Based on more than 60 exclusive interviews, it rips away the superficial gloss to expose the political and industrial forces that really drive Big Business in the 21st century.

In an investigative tour de force, authors Peter Thompson and Robert Macklin reveal the visions, the schemes, the scandals and the corporate life-and-death struggles that have characterised BHP's evolution from the first lucky strike by the mysterious Charles Rasp at Broken Hill in 1883 to its merger with Billiton in 2001 to its daring $150 billion bid for Rio Tinto six years later.

The result is a gripping story of foresight and blunder, of nation-building and rampant ego, of greed and of grace, written by two master storytellers with, for the first time, access to the key players themselves.

Dream of Africa
at a Bathers Lunch with

Peter Allison

12:00 pm Thursday 6 August

$65 includes a two course lunch
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers on 9969-5050

If you’ve been to Africa, or if you’re thinking of traveling there, you will love this lunch. Australian Peter Allison has written two books telling his warm, funny and utterly engaging true story of a young Aussie safari guide who has spent the last twelve years leading tours in the African bush.

Travel Specialists Mosman and Bench International are supporting this lunch with a special prize of two nights for two people staying at Kanana Camp in the fabulous Okavango Delta of Botswana.

A Bathers' Lunch with

Pete Evans

12:00 pm Tuesday 11 August

$85 includes a three course lunch and a glass of wine

  Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers’ on 9969-5050

Pete Evans has built a reputation as a chef, restaurateur, and television presenter. Pete’s award-winning restaurants include Hugo’s Manly, Hugo’s Bar Pizza and Hugo’s Lounge.
Pete Evans brings his inimitable style to a subject very close to every man’s heart – the barbecue.

Susanna de Vries

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Wednesday 19th August
$8.80( $6.60concession ) includes refreshments.
Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au  with your credit card details.

Females on the Fatal Shore is an entertaining and highly readable blend of biography and history profiling 11 outstanding women, convict and free. In the first decades of life at Sydney Cove, convicts Esther Johnston and Mary Reibey went short of food but eventually became successful businesswomen and founders of dynasties. Others, mothers of large families, became successful breeders of sheep and wool exporters. This was a new society where penniless convict girls and domestic servants became wealthy and where young ladies of the Jane Austen era faced the hazards of Australia’s boom and bust economy. These tales of women triumphing over adversity document the early decades of a nation. Every Australian should know their stories and be proud of them

Tom Rob Smith

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Monday 24th August
$8.80( $6.60concession ) includes refreshments.
Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au  with your credit card details.

Tom Rob Smith shot to international fame when his novel, Child 44, became the first thriller to be longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His latest thriller, The Secret Speech, is set after Stalin’s death. Krushchev has promised reform but there are forces at work that cannot forgive or forget the past.

Live on Stage

Antony Beevor

7:30 pm Tuesday 26th August

This will be his only Sydney appearance.

Tickets $20

Bookings at the Orpheum, at Pages & Pages, or via the web at www.orpheum.com.au

Antony's books will be available on the night and Antony will be signing copies.

Britain’s most respected modern historian and best selling author is visiting Australia. He will be discussing his latest book, D-Day.

A Cocktail of Crime

Join us for a special cocktail party celebrating great crime writing with international authors
Robert Wilson and Adrian McKinty,
together with locals authors
Barry Maitland and Kathryn Fox

7:00 pm Tuesday 1 September
at the Mosman Art Gallery
$35 includes Cocktail Food and complimentary drinks
Bookings at our bookshop, phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au with your credit card details.

Robert Wilson lives and writes in Portugal. The Ignorance of Blood is the latest in his series set in Seville featuring Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón.

Irish writer, Adrian McKinty, is the author of 5 novels. In his latest, Cuban heat meets immigrant politics in a thriller with a social conscience.

Barry Maitland lives in Newcastle where he was Professor of Architecture before writing full time. The Dark Mirror is his tenth Brock and Kolla mystery, all of them set in London.

Kathryn Fox is a medical practitioner with a special interest in forensic medicine. She has worked as a family physician, medical journalist and freelance writer.

Tara Moss

A Bathers lunch
12:00 pm Thursday 24th September
$65 includes a two course lunch
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers' or email eat@batherspavilion.com.au 

"Tara Moss is much more than a pretty face. She’s an international best selling author‚ ambassador‚ television host‚ and reptile wrangler...she may well become one of the world’s best sellers." 

− World Literature Today

 In Tara’s new novel, Siren, Mak Vanderwall, street wise former model, graduate in forensic psychology, and now PI, is back in Sydney and has been hired by a concerned mother to track down her missing nineteen year old son.