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Janet Blagg

Janet has been a book editor in Melbourne and Perth for twenty-five years, and had an Australia Council Fellowship at the Institute for Aboriginal Development in Alice Springs in 1995. Since 1998 she has worked for Fremantle Press and UWA Press. Currently she manages her own editing and self-publishing business, Yellow Wallpaper. Recent award-winning titles she edited include: Kate McCaffrey’s Destroying Avalon (2006), Donna Mazza’s The Albanian (2007), Nathan Hobby’s The Fur (2006), Anna Haebich’s Broken Circles (2000), Michle Drouart’s Into the Wadi (2000), Julia Lawrinson’s Obsession (2001), and Christopher Murray’s Whispering of Fish (2000).

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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