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Join us for one of the most exclusive literary events for 2025 - celebrating the release of his fourth novel, Gravity Let Me Go, we are thrilled to welcome one of Australia's most exciting contemporary writers to the Peninsula for the first time.

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About the author

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. 

Following standing ovations and glowing reviews at the Brisbane Festival in 2024, the critically acclaimed stage adaptation of Trent Dalton’s Love Stories is set for a four-city national tour in September 2025. 

Gravity Let Me Go is Trent's fourth novel and will be released on 30 September 2025.  

Date

Friday 14 November 2025 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (UTC+10)

6.30pm arrival for a 7pm start. Book sales and signing following the presentation.  

Location

New Peninsula Centre, Auditorium 1
370 Craigie Road, Mount Martha Victoria 3934

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