Our Book Lists > Roaring Events > RS Book Events 2023
Another fabulous year of book events showcasing the breadth and depth of our writing community.
Our recorded interviews for each event can be found on the Roaring Stories Youtube page.
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend. A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small re ...Show more
The Drowning by Bryan Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy, Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice continues in this unflinching, gripping novel. 'A work of rattling and serpentine suspense ... gripping and sinuous and so, so good.' Trent Dalton. The body of a local teenage boy is found on the beach of a sle ...Show more
21st-Century Virtues: How They Are Failing Our Democracy by Lucinda Holdforth
$19.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not practised) by big corporations, and lauded by professionals on LinkedIn. The quest for authenticity, for example, is central to progressive campaigns for greater ...Show more
Back to Bangka: Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre by Georgina Banks
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non Fiction
Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt 'Bud', killed in the Second World War.Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter plane ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non Fiction
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
Book of Life by Deborah Conway
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most iconic music performers. You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and smouldering in her music videos over the years means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you ...Show more
Infidelity and Other Affairs by Kate Legge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
What do you do when your partner's infidelity upends your life? When you confront living on your own? In amongst parents dying, careers ending and becoming a grandparent? As a journalist, Kate Legge often seeks answers to how people reckon with bad luck or bad decisions. When faced with her husband's a ...Show more
Killer Traitor Spy (#4 John Bailey) by Tim Ayliffe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: John Bailey Ser.
SET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. ‘Ayliffe is a master of the genre.’ Sulari GentillJournalist John Bailey and CIA officer Ronnie Johnson join forces to outwit their most deadly adversary yet.Russian millionaire, Dmitry Lebedev, has been flying under the radar in Sydney for years. Now somebody wants him ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
On Our Best Behaviour: The Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
'A stunning, big and bold encyclopedia of how to live, the first post-pandemic book to take our latest measurements and provide something fresh to comfort, embolden, enlighten and enrich who we are today' LISA TADDEO Lust. Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Envy. Pride. These so-called 'deadly sins', conse ...Show more
Powering Up: Unleashing the Clean Energy Supply Chain by Alan Finkel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel shares his compelling insights and expertise and makes the case for Australia leading the way in the global transition to clean energy. The clean energy transition is humanity's biggest ever economic challenge. In Powering Up, former Australian chief scientist Alan F ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal by Saul Griffith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
A compelling vision of green energy at a local level. In this inspiring essay, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith looks at the wires that bind us. He reveals the world that awaits if we make the most of Australia's energy future. Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empower ...Show more