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Hugh Mackay has spent his entire working life asking Australians about their values, motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears.

Now, in The Good Life, he addresses the ultimate question: What makes a life worth living? His conclusion is provocative. The good life is not the sum of our security, wealth, status, postcode, career success and levels of happiness. The good life is one defined by our capacity for selflessness, the quality of our relationships and our willingness to connect with others in a useful way.

Argued with all the passion and intelligence we have come to expect from one of Australia’s most prolific and insightful authors, The Good Life is a book that will start conversations, ignite arguments and possibly even change the way we live our lives.

Saroo Brierley Luncheon

One evening, five-year-old Saroo left his poor village home in India His life was about to be utterly transformed. Lost and alone on an unfamiliar train, he found himself in Calcutta unable to explain who he was or where he was from. After weeks of defying the odds on the city's dangerous streets, Saroo was taken in by a government agency and was miraculously adopted by an Australian couple who took him to a new life in Hobart.

As an adult, he kept trying to work out where he came from. With the advent of Google Earth, his long inquiry began to bear fruit: as the technology improved, he was able to find what he thought was his home town and go in search of his family. A Long Way Home tells the extraordinary story behind this otherwise ordinary 32-year-old Aussie bloke, from the dirt floors of his birth home to the hills of Hobart and back again.

John Elder Robison Luncheon

John Elder Robison was never a model child, and he wasn't a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. The one thing John couldn't figure out was what to do when school authorities decided that his son Cubby was dumb.

By the time Cubby turned seventeen, he had become a brilliant chemist -- smart enough to make military-grade explosives and bring Federal agents calling. With Cubby facing an expensive trial, and up to sixty years in prison, both father and son were forced to take stock of their lives, finally accepting that being 'on the spectrum' is both a challenge and a gift. Raising Cubby is an hilarious and touching story of a father and son who grow up together.

Stuart MacBride is the author of several bestselling novels, Shatter The Bones and Birthdays for the Dead featuring DS Logan McRae. The McRae books have won him the CWA’s Dagger in the Library, Best Breakthrough Author at the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards and made him a number 1 bestseller.

Close to the Bone is MacBride’s latest novel. Someone’s leaving little knots of bones outside Detective Inspector Logan McRae’s house, but he’s got more pressing things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone’s crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan’s been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant, a mountain of paperwork, and the unwelcome attention of his superiors and the local crime boss.

Kathy Reichs Luncheon

Kathy Reichs is vice president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists; a member of the RCMP National Police Services Advisory Council; forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec; and a professor of forensic anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

Her first book, Deja Dead, catapulted her to fame when it became a New York Times bestseller and won the 1997 Ellis award for best first novel.

She has written 15 bestselling Temperance Brennan novels, the most recent being Bones of the Lost.

DEADLY AUSTRALIAN WOMEN
KAY SAUNDERS IN-STORE SIGNING

Stories of the women who broke society’s greatest taboo

‘I am not a murderer, for I never meant to kill the man.
I was in liquor when we beat him as we did, but we couldn’t help it that he died …’
– Mary Maloney, 1836, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her master

In her first, bestselling book, Notorious Australian Women, author Kay Saunders profiled some of the country’s most scandalous females. Here she turns her eye to those who have broken one of society’s most cherished taboos and become both notorious and deadly.

Kay Saunders AM was Professor of History and Senator of the University of Queensland from 2002 to 2006. In 2001 she received the Medal of the National Museum of Australia and in 2006 was the recipient of the John Kerr Medal from the Royal Historical Society of Queensland.

MEET SYLVIA DAY

The worldwide phenomenon continues as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires in the third book of the Crossfire series . .

Meet Sylvia Day - the author of the wildly successfully Crossfire series – at an in-store signing at Dymocks! Over 6 million Crossfire books have sold worldwide, and Entwined With You – the third book in the series is due out on 4 June!

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Sylvia in person and get your books signed!

Date:	Thursday 20 June, 2013
Time:	12:30 PM
Venue:	Dymocks George St 424 - 428 George St, Sydney
Cost:	This is a FREE event
Bookings/ Enquiries:	9235 0155 or customerservice@dymocks.com.au

MEET SYLVIA DAY

The worldwide phenomenon continues as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires in the third book of the Crossfire series . .

Meet Sylvia Day - the author of the wildly successfully Crossfire series – at an in-store signing at Dymocks! Over 6 million Crossfire books have sold worldwide, and Entwined With You – the third book in the series is due out on 4 June!

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Sylvia in person and get your books signed!

Date:	Thursday 20 June, 2013
Time:	6:00 PM
Venue:	Dymocks Penrith Shop 145 Westfield Penrith, 585 High St, Penrith
Cost:	This is a FREE event!!
Bookings/ Enquiries:	T 02 47315 986 or penrith@dymocks.com.au

A dream day out for food fanatics and wine connoisseurs alike - hundreds of the country’s finest food producers, wineries and chefs come together for one sensational weekend. With a line-up that will leave you hungry for more, one day may not be enough!

It’s time to celebrate Sydney’s flair for modern Australian cuisine with a festival of good food, top drops, tantalising chocolates, and of course, fresh produce from NSW’s award-winning farm gates. Indulge your foodie passion as you try hundreds of delectable food and wine samples.

The Sydney Good Food & Wine Show will be held at The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre from 28 - 30 June 2013.

Show Hours:

Friday 28 June: 10am - 6pm
Saturday 29 June: 10am - 6pm
Sunday 30 June: 10am - 5pm