In Conversation with Sarah Clutton
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Join us for an evening with the bestselling author of The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains.Sarah Clutton will be in conversation with Renee Price to celebrate her latest release 'The Bookshop of Buried Pasts'.
About The Bookshop of Buried Pasts:
Phyllida Banks is adored in the tiny village of Brookbank, nestled in the Southern Highlands outside Sydney. Admired for her curiosity and wisdom, her antiquarian bookshop is the hub of the community.
So, when Phyllida is suddenly gone, leaving her granddaughter, Lottie, a letter requesting she ‘Find Francis’, friends and neighbours rally as Lottie grapples with her grandmother’s inexplicable actions and her enigmatic past.
Uncovering a fortune of unknown origin, Lottie discovers a trail that leads to Cambridgeshire, England, and another village bookshop with eerie similarities to their own.
As the decades unravel, she stumbles upon the key to a mystery that has baffled police for fifty years. Several people have gone to great lengths to keep the past buried, and it seems Phyllida is at the heart of everything.
Step inside The Bookshop of Buried Pasts — an exhilarating tale of an abandoned boy and the woman who refused to forget him.
About Sarah Clutton:
Sarah Clutton lives in Australia's first Book Town on Gundungurra and Tharawal country. She has tried her hand at various jobs: research assistant, judge's associate, insurance claims advisor, litigation lawyer, philanthropic foundation manager and ghost-writer. In between freelance writing gigs she is events manager for her local chapter of Rural Australians for Refugees. Her bestselling novel, The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains, was published in 2025. The Bookshop of Buried Pasts is her tribute to village-living in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, and to the booksellers and book people who are its beating heart.
Date
Wednesday 8 July 2026 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM (UTC+10)Location
Old Colonists Club, Ballarat (upstairs from Collins Books on Lydiard)
16 Lydiard St North, Ballarat Vic 3350
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In Conversation with Sarah Clutton
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