Greg Growden

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Wednesday 18th August
$10 ( $8 concession ) includes refreshments.

Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au with your credit card details.

Greg Growden is the senior rugby writer at the Sydney Morning Herald. His new book, Inside The Wallabies, is the real story of the Wallabies from their first games in 1908 to today. It is a book no rugby fan can be without.

A Bathers’ Lunch with

Damien Pignolet

12:00 pm Thursday 26th August
$85 includes a three course lunch with a glass of wine
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers on 9969-5050

Acclaimed chef Damien Pignolet's first book, French, captured the essence of classic French cooking in Australia.
In his new book, Salades, he is set to inspire and delight the dedicated home cook with the endless possibilities of the salad. Here are entrée salads to stimulate the appetite, side salads to refresh the palate, and warm salads that serve as a meal in their own right.

Live on Stage

Simon Winchester

7:30 pm Tuesday 31st August
at the Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace
Tickets $20
Bookings at the Orpheum,
at Pages & Pages,
or www.orpheum.com.au

The best selling author of The Surgeon of Crowthorne and Bomb Book & Compass is back in Australia and talking about his latest book, Atlantic; the Biography of an Ocean.

ATLANTIC brings to life key episodes in a compelling human drama - the age of exploration and the subsequent colonisation of the Americas; the flourishing of transatlantic commerce and the rise and fall of the slave trade; extraordinary tales of sea-borne emigration during the nineteenth century; and the great naval battles that have left an indelible imprint on Atlantic history.

Barbara Trapido

A Mosman Library evening
7:00 pm Monday 6th September
$10 ( $8 concession ) includes refreshments.

Bookings at our bookshop,
phone 9969-9736 or email mosman@pagesandpages.com.au with your credit card details.

From the bestselling author of Brother Of The More Famous Jack: it's 1995 and a mix of people from different parts of the globe - from Australia to South Africa, Senegal to Milan - are linked by their past.

What an extraordinary storyteller Barbara Trapido is. Right from the start you are totally engrossed in the lives of the characters she has created. Three different families dance in and out of each others lives for there is something that connects them all. Set in South Africa, England and France Trapido choreographs the meeting of these people like a masquerade in which many things are not what they seem.

A Bathers’ Lunch with

Bill Granger

12:00 pm Thursday 14th October
$85 includes a three course lunch with a glass of wine
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers on 9969-5050

The New York Times credited him with reinventing the scrambled egg... Now, Bill Granger, restaurateur, television chef and food writer, works his magic on 100 other classic dishes from across the globe.

Bill draws on his fondest food memories, then simplifies techniques, minimises fussy ingredient lists and gives these dishes a modern twist that′s in tune with our busy lives and passion for fresh, healthy flavours. From Thai beef salad to lamb tagine, coq au vin to chocolate brownies, Singapore noodles to jam tart, this is the cheat′s guide to making the recipes every home cook wants to master.

A Special Bathers’ Lunch with

Serge Dansereau

12:00 pm Wednesday 20th October
$85 includes a three course lunch with a glass of wine
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers on 9969-5050

In this beautifully photographed and designed cookbook from leading chef Serge Dansereau, you will find 230 classic French recipes for the home kitchen, all carefully developed to make French food accessible to the everyday Australian cook.
Combining expert French technique and wonderful Australian produce, Serge shares with us the kind of food he cooks at home, whether brioche or lemon crepes, cassoulet or clafoutis, these recipes bring us the style and flavours of everyday French cooking and offer us the chef know-how that helps turn a good dish into a great one.

A Bathers’ Lunch with

Kate Morton

12:00 pm Friday 5th November
$75 includes a two course lunch
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers on 9969-5050

Kate's first two novels, The Shifting Fog and The Forgotten Garden, were huge bestsellers in Australia, the UK, the US and in Europe.

Her new novel, The Distant Hours, started with a letter. A letter that had been lost a long time, waiting out half a century, stifling summer after cooling winter, in a forgotten postal bag in the dim attic of a nondescript house in Bermondsey ...

A Bathers’ Lunch with

Karen Martini

12:00 pm Tuesday 9th November
$85 includes a three course lunch with a glass of wine
Bookings with Gail Baxter at Bathers on 9969-5050

Karen Martini began her food career at the age of fifteen at Mietta's in Melbourne. In 2002 she moved to Sydney to take up the position of Executive Chef at Icebergs Dining Room and Bar. Karen is food editor of Sunday Life magazine and food presenter on the television show Better Homes and Gardens.

Karen Martini welcomes us to her table. Here are 130 new recipes, organised into twenty menus – all easy to prepare and full of flavour. Karen invites us to choose just one delicious dish, put together an entire menu, or create our own unique feasts using recipes from different menus.