It’s not every day you get the opportunity to meet three exciting new Canberra bred authors but this is exactly what you will get to do this Thursday evening.
Electric Shadows Bookshop is known for its specialist film, theatre and arts selection however it also has an amazingly eclectic selection of books from fiction to politics, philosophy to children’s book. ESB is the shop you enter intending to buy one book and leave with five; they should come with a warning!
Lucy Neave’s ‘Who We Were’ was published in late May this year and has been described as ‘an intimate and powerful love story about trust, obsession and the truth itself’. The story begins with love in 1938 Melbourne and sweeps us along into a Cold War thriller in 1950’s New York.
‘A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists’ is the first novel for Jane Rawson. Dystopian novels are rarely described as funny or ‘a meditation on happiness’ which makes this book a must read for anyone who has an interest on where our world could be headed and why our memories and imagination are some of the most important things to record and pass on.
Christie Thompson’s ‘Snake Bite’ is a coming of age story that I wish was the English Literature book I studied in College. It’s the Puberty Blues of this generation and high time that there was a book that expressed things in a way that can facilitate conversation between parents and their teenagers. It’s the book that I want to share with my friends and reminisce over those teenage years and yet I am scared stiff that my teenage step-daughter will one day leave our cotton-wool wrapped arms and be experiencing all those events that make you learn your life lessons the hard way.
If you wonder how authors come up with their stories, want to know about the road to publishing or just to bask in the awesomeness that is Canberra’s celebrated authors RSVP to Electric Shadows Bookshop ASAP.
I look forward to seeing you there!
