Start your week off write!

The City of Perth Library and Writing WA are proud to launch not just a book club but a full-blown literary salon!

Join your favourite Western Australian authors in conversation with Writing WA’s Will Yeoman, followed by an extended audience Q&A session and relaxed mingling. Spend each evening immersed in the book’s social and cultural milieu, aided by music recordings and archival images and footage where appropriate. A showcase of local WA wines and produce will be on offer for your enjoyment.

Date/s: Monday 24 March 2025
               Monday 26 May 2025
               Monday 28 July 2025
               Monday 22 September 2025

Time:     5.30pm-7.00pm

Venue:  City of Perth Library, 573 Hay Street, Perth 

Cost:      $60.00 INC GST per person. Booking cost covers all four sessions.

Places are strictly limited, so Book Now!
 

Monday 24 March 2025
Banjawarn by Josh Kemp
Banjawarn is an unsettling debut from Josh Kemp, winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.
Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to her estranged father instead of alerting authorities. Together they begin the road trip from hell through the scorched heart of the state’s northern goldfields.

Monday 26 May 2025
What is an Aboriginal Elder? by Dr Marion Kickett
This new work, published in April 2025, is a collection of Aboriginal Elder stories that combine to answer the question, what is an Aboriginal Elder?
Dr Marion Kickett examines this important question after frequently being asked by non-Aboriginal people throughout her career as a nurse, health professional, and academic. Questions raised and covered in this book include: Why do you need Elders? How are they appointed? What qualities do Aboriginal Elders need to have? and much more.

Monday 28 July 2025
Kathleen O’Connor of Paris by Amanda Curtin
In 1906, Kathleen O’Connor left conservative Perth, where her famous father’s life had ended in tragedy. She set her sights on a career in thrilling, bohemian Paris. More than a century later, novelist Amanda Curtin faces her own questions on life and art, as she embarks on a journey in Kate’s footsteps.
Part biography, part travel narrative, this is the story of an artist in a foreign land who, with limited resources and despite the impacts of war and loss, worked and exhibited in Paris for over forty years. Kate’s distinctive figure paintings, portraits and still lifes are highly prized today and form an inseparable part of the telling.

Monday 22 September 2025
Old Scores by David Whish-Wilson
It’s the early 1980s: the heady days of excess, dirty secrets and personal favours. Former Perth detective Frank Swann is in disgrace, working as a low-rent private investigator. When he’s offered a security job by the premier’s fixer, it soon becomes clear that someone is bugging the premier’s phone – and it may cost Swann more than his job to find out why. Old Scores is a fast-paced, entertaining, and suspenseful must-read for fans of Australian crime fiction.

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