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Catch Fremantle Press authors at the following events:

January
The Locker Valley Arts Festival Queensland, 13-16 January
(Hetty Verolme and Marlish Glorie)

Premier’s Summer Reading Challenge WA
Tuesday 17 January (Chris Nixon)
10.00am – 11.00am Amherst Village Library, Southern River
1.00pm – 2.00pm Girrawheen Library

Wednesday 18 January (Jen Banyard)
2.00pm – 3.00pm Nedlands Library
6.30pm – 7.30pm Fremantle Library

Love to Read Cafe
Friday 20 January (Adam Morris)
3.30pm – 4.30pm
Saturday 21 January (Andrew Relph)
3.30pm – 4.30pm

Monday 23 January (Norman Jorgensen)
1.00pm – 2.00pm Riverton Library
5.00pm – 6.00pm Ruth Faulkner Library, Cloverdale

  • Mystery at Riddle Gully

    by Jen Banyard

    Pollo di Nozi, reporter-in-training, has a nose for news. Strange things are happening in Riddle Gully and Pollo smells a major scoop.

    With Shorn Connery, her sheepish sidekick, Pollo is determined to track down the Graffiti KidRead more »

    Coming Soon

  • Jake's Concert Horror

    by Ken Spillman with illustrations by Chris Nixon

    A school concert sounds like fun. Jake could scamper across the stage in a monkey suit. He could CLASH swords with Jonah. Even being a prince might be okay – as long as princesses are kept well clear.

    But Mrs Paul has other ideasRead more »

    Coming Soon

  • Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement 1971 to 1977

    by Robert (Bob) Hunter

    This is the story of early Greenpeacers sailing around the Pacific, bickering over internal politics, risking their lives and staving off bankruptcy while somehow managing to start a global movement.

    One part action adventure and one part memoir, this gripping and moving account of the birth of Greenpeace was written by one of the movement’s Read more »

    Coming Soon

  • Women of Note: The Rise of Australian Women Composers

    by Rosalind Appleby

    ‘This much-welcomed book profiles those women, largely unacknowledged, who stand as the major landmarks in the Australian musical landscape.’
    John Davis, CEO Australian Music Centre, President International Society for Contemporary Music

    In the early twentieth century being a female composer was a dangerous game; one composer was diagnosed…Read more »

    Price $35.00 Add to cart

  • The Last Viking

    by Norman Jorgensen with illustrations by James Foley

    Let the pillaging begin! CBC Picture Book of the Year winner, Norman Jorgensen, teams up with illustrator James Foley on this fun picture book about a boy who outwits local bullies by channelling his inner Viking.

    James and Norman run a blog for teachers, students and aspiring authors. It follows the real-time trials, tribulations and joys of creating…Read more »

    Price $24.95 Add to cart

Outdoor Reading in Freo

The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.

Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading

When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au