In thrilling news, we are delighted to announce Meet the Author: Trent Dalton for the launch of his fourth novel, Gravity Let Me Go. Trent Dalton, two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe will be in conversation with journalist, producer and presenter, Sonya Feldhoff. Please join us when we present Trent and Sonya, in partnership with Burnside Library, at 7pm on Wednesday November 26, Regal Theatre, 275 Kensington Road, Kensington Park.

Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is a novel about marriage and ambition; truth-telling and truth-omitting; self-deception and self-preservation. It’s a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn’t, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us. There are one thousand stories up and down your street. There are nine thousand stories in your neighbourhood. This is the one about Noah Cork and the most important story he almost missed in pursuit of his dreams.

Trent says, 'I’ve mined my own failings for it and my own anxieties and my own secrets. I spent two decades as a feature journalist exploring the darkness that exists beneath the sunshine suburbs of Australia. My job for twenty years was to knock on closed doors across the suburbs and unpeel the most shocking layers of darkness that ordinary Australians keep locked in the basements of their souls. I wanted to put all that darkness of the suburbs into this book, along with all the light I’ve been blinded by in the same suburbs, too. The connections of neighbours. Community. The love and light that lives and breathes in every street across Australia.'

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award–winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories and Lola in the Mirror. Lola in the Mirror was the winner of the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the 2023 QBD Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Dymocks 2023 Book of the Year, the 2024 Indie Book Awards, the 2024 Book People Fiction Book of the Year and the 2024 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award. It has sold over 320,000 copies across all formats since publication in October 2023. The Boy Swallows Universe television series, which aired in January 2024, was Netflix’s most successful Australian-made show to date. It ranked in the top 10 in 52 countries and reached the number one spot in Australia, number four in the UK and number six in the US.

Ticket Options:

Ticket Only ($15)

Ticket + Signed Book ($35) (Gravity Let Me Go $35 RRP) — SIGNED book to be collected at the event (NOVEMBER 26th).

Ticket + Unsigned Book ($35) — UNSIGNED book to be collected from Matilda Bookshop from publication date of OCTOBER 1st.

Ticket + Unsigned Book + SA postage ($40) — UNSIGNED book to be posted to your South Australian (only) address after publication date of OCTOBER 1st.

Gravity Let Me Go will also be on sale for the night for $35. Any unsigned books can be brought with you on the night for Trent to sign.

Date

Location

Regal Theatre
275 Kensington Road, Kensington Park South Australia 5068

Contact Event Organiser

08 8339 3931 or books@matildabookshop.com.au