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Reader's Feast Bookstore

Cnr Bourke & Swanston Streets
Melbourne, Victoria, 3000
Australia

(+61) 3 9662 4699; readers readersfeast.com.au

New/Used: new books

Web site: http://www.readersfeast.com.au/

Description: The independent bookstore Reader's Feast has been operating 17 years. They support a number of literary events including readings, conversations and interviews, formal literary luncheons and dinners.
They also operate a members email newsletter of promotions and events, a customer purchase 'reward' card, and print & mail a quarterly brochure of new releases and events.

The Autumn 2009 book guide includes a mention of their new website for Medieval books and other items at www.medievalimagination.com.
This site was created in response to feedback from their Medieval Imagination bookshop at the State Library of Victoria to coincide with that exhibition.

Note that Reader's Feast event questions can be emailed to events@readersfeast.com.au

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Upcoming events

Author Salley Vickers in conversation with Jane Sullivan (March 4 at 6:15pm)
Salley Vickers.
$17.00 per ticket, $15* (*conditions apply) Unreserved seating All tickets must be purchased at the time of booking. Please note: some seating is upstairs.
Event location: Collins St Baptist Church
Event webpage
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Past events

Writers at the Convent (February 13 at 10:00am)
Local and international writers speak about their work and join panel discussions over three days, February 13-15. Program available in The Saturday Age on 17 January and online. Opportunities to volunteer.
Event location: Abbotsford Convent
Event webpage
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An Evening with Richard Holloway (May 19 at 6:15pm)
Richard Holloway reads from Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human Condition.
Richard is visiting Melbourne while over for the 2009 Sydney Writer's Festival. Bookings are essential as places are limited. $6 per person payable at the door. Unreserved seating. To book: call +61 3 9662 4699 or email events@readersfeast.com.au
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An Evening with Monica Ali in conversation with Nadine Davidoff (May 20 at 6:15pm)
Monica Ali discusses In the Kitchen: A Novel.
An evening with Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane in conversation with Nadine Davidoff on Wednesday 20th May.. 6.15pm for 6.30pm at Reader's Feast Bookstore. $6 per person payable at the door. Unreserved Seating. Bookings are essential as places are limited. Call +61 3 9662 4699 or email events@readersfeast.com.au ... (more)Monica was born in Bangladesh and grew up in England. She is one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists of the decade,Newcomer of the Year at the 2004 British Book Awards and has been nominated for most of the major literary prizes in Britain. BRICK LANE was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the George Orwell Prize for political writing and the prestigious Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her latest novel IN THE KITCHEN opens with a mysterious death in the cellars of a smart, cosmopolitan hotel and over the course of the ensuing pages, peels back the layers of polyglot London to reveal the melting pot which exists below. Once again it confirms Monica not only as a great modern storyteller but also an acute observer of vagaries of a contemporaryculture. Monica's book In the Kitchen may be pre-ordered. It is due for release in May 2009
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Meet Don Watson (October 13 at 6:15pm)
Don Watson promotes Bendable Learnings.
Meet Don Watson Latest Novel: Bendable Learnings Tuesday 13 October, 6.15pm for 6.30pm at Reader's Feast Bookstore. $6.00 payable at the door. By booking in for the event, you will be assured of obtaining a seat. Please book by calling 9662 4699 or email to readers @ readersfeast.com.au. Bendable Learnings, ... (more)follows on from Don Watson’s bestselling Death Sentence and Weasel Words and is about the way management writers, participants, and leaders have deliberately taken perfectly adequate English and replaced it with words and phrases that serve to obscure facts, deliver minimal information, and ultimately impede clear thinking.
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