Tim Bowden - Stubborn Buggers

On Wednesday July 23rd Your Bookshop and Ryde Library hosted a Sold Out event with oral historian, Tim Bowden. Stubborn Buggers is the true account of Australian POWs at Outram Road Gaol - a military prison that made Changi look like heaven. The Outram story has tended to slip through the cracks when set against the Sandakan Death Marches and slave labour of Thai Burma Railway due to relatively few Australian prisoners who were held there.

In an amazing turn of events, during the question time we realised Bill Young, the youngest POW to survive Outram and whose paintings are featured in the book, was in the audience.

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Tim Bowden with Bill Young

Tim Bowden with YB's Bonnie Serov

Bill Young's presence at the talk was a great surprise to everyone, including author Tim Bowden.

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Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son - Dr Tim Hawkes

Dr Tim Hawkes is the Head Master of The King's School, Parramatta - the oldest independent school for boys in Australia.
Internationally recognised expert in the field of raising and
educating boys, Dr Hawkes is in a unique position to know what goes on inside the minds of teenage boys. 
His latest book, TEN CONVERSATIONS YOU MUST HAVE WITH YOUR SON is the one book anyone with teenage boys should read to help prepare their son for adulthood.

Join Your Bookshop team for an informative evening at Ryde Library on Tuesday August 26th, 6.30pm

Numbers are strictly limited. To reserve your place, contact the library on 9952 8352

Dr Tim Hawkes

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Meet Kate Forsyth @ Ryde Library

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An Afternoon With Journalists Kate McClymont and Linton Besser

Queensland had the Fitzgerald Inquiry and the Moonlight State. New South Wales has Eddie Obeid.

Obeid ran the state as his fiefdom, making and unmaking premiers. Along the way he pocketed tens of millions of dollars following corrupt deals.

This explosive book chronicles the grubby deals the powerbroker had been making for decades before he was exposed.

Following their groundbreaking investigations, the award-winning Kate McClymont and Linton Besser have unearthed the vast but secret empire Obeid built over decades, producing an authoritative account of how he got away with so much for so long.

Meet the authors at Bankstown for an informative talk.

Date: Saturday, August 23rd.
Lansdowne Room, Level 2
Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre,
Address: 80 Rickard Road
Bankstown NSW 2200

Time: 3.30-4.30pm
Cost: $5

Your Bookshop will be there with copies of He Who Must Be Obeid for sale.

Numbers are strictly limited. To reserve your place contact the library on 9707 9708.

Meet Lex Marinos @ Bankstown & Ryde Libraries

Meet legendary ABC & SBS presenter, Lex Marinos.

From Kingswood Country to The Slap, and beyond, Blood and Circuses is the wry and charming story of one of Australia's much loved actor and broadcaster. 

Date: Saturday, August 2nd.
Landsdown Room, Level 2
Bankstown Library and Knowledge Centre,
Address: 80 Rickard Road
Bankstown NSW 2200

Time: 3.30-5.00pm
Cost: $5

Your Bookshop will be there with copies of Lex's memoir,Blood and Circuses for sale.Numbers are strictly limited. To reserve your place, contact the library on 9707 9708 or
on-line here.

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Our second event is at Ryde Library on Wednesday, August 14. 

Leila Yusaf Chung in conversation at Merrylands Library

Drawing from her firsthand experiences of the Lebanese Civil War, Leila tells of the compelling and heartbreaking stories of the refugees in her debut novel, Chasing Shadows.

There will be light refreshments served and Your Bookshop will be there with copies of Chasing Shadows.

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