AUTHOR EVENTS COMING UP AT AVID READER WEST END
TUESDAY 4 AUGUST | THE LOFT – 100 BOUNDARY STREET, WEST END (ABOVE ARCHIVE BEER BOUTIQUE)
6pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
The Brisbane launch of Screw Nice by Amy Remeikis.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the critically acclaimed author of On Reckoning, a powerful examination of how the politics of civility attempts to shut down debate. But when lies are treated as truth, the only thing we can do is speak up and screw nice.
The imbalance between those in power and those who oppose injustice is growing. And yet, to stifle argument, those who hold all the power use demands for civility as weapons, to control discussion and negate the legitimacy of differing opinions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Remeikis is a is the Chief Political Analyst at The Australia Institute and a contributing editor for The New Daily. Amy is renowned for her incisive political commentary and extensive experience as a journalist, author and former political reporter for The Guardian Australia. Amy regularly appears in national media and is celebrated for her powerful writing on gender, politics and social justice. Her work continues to influence public debate and policy discussions across Australia. She is the author of On Reckoning, Where it All Went Wrong and Screw Nice.
FRIDAY 7 AUGUST | THE LOFT – 100 BOUNDARY STREET, WEST END (ABOVE ARCHIVE BEER BOUTIQUE)
6pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Fiona Stager and Joanna Jenkins will be in conversation for her new novel Bad Neighbours.
ABOUT THE BOOK
From the bestselling author of How to Kill a Client and The Bluff comes a page-turning thriller of fraud and lies, murder and greed.
Ruth Dawson finds her ideal living space in an Art Deco building in Potts Point, The Lumen. A twenty-minute walk from her office in the city, the apartment boasts parquetry flooring, a wall of books and Harbour Bridge views from the sofa.
It’s perfect until Ben, the homeless guy, dies under the corrugated iron lean-to in the garden where he lived.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joanna Jenkins grew up on a small farm in country Queensland. After graduating from the University of Queensland with degrees in English Literature and Law, she practised as a solicitor, including for many years as a partner of an international law firm. She now writes full-time. Married with three sons, Joanna lives in Brisbane. Her debut novel, How to Kill a Client, was published in 2023. The Bluff, her second novel, was published in 2025.
FRIDAY 14 AUGUST | INSTORE EVENT
6pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Robert Forster will be in conversation with Andrew Upton for his novel Krank Fuss.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Written for his unborn daughter on a smallholding in Nazi Germany just before the war, Krank Fuss (‘sick foot’), tells the story of one of a brood of chickens recently acquired by a WWI veteran from a neighbouring farm. Ostracised because of her deformed limb, Krank Fuss befriends Gibby, a toad who considers themself a frog, and together they explore the world of the farm around them. Over the course of the tale, she learns the biggest dangers are never as bad as she imagined, and that even though she has no say in the conditions of her life, she must still make decisions and those decisions matter because terrible cruelty and violence are much closer than she had thought possible.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Upton was born in Sydney in 1966, the youngest of three children to John, a former navigator in Mosquitoes with the RAF during WWII and later a G.P., and Patty, an Australian-born woman of Irish descent. He has written a couple of plays (Hanging Man and Riflemind) and many adaptations of the classics (Hedda Gabler, Cyrano De Bergerac, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, The Three Sisters and The Seagull amongst them) He was Co-Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company for eight years with his wife Cate Blanchett. They currently live in the UK with their four children, three dogs, two cats, endless chickens and occasional pigs.
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Krank Fuss has been reviewed by QRC. Click on the title to read our review.
Screw Nice and Bad Neighbours will both be reviewed by QRC in the coming days.