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The Australian Women's Weekly and Dymocks invite you to meet writer Di Morrissey.

Di Morrissey is one of the most successful writers Australia has ever produced and with fifteen consecutive bestsellers to her name she shows no sign of slowing down. Di trained as a journalist with Australian Consolidated Press and became Women's Editor for The Daily Mail Group in London and worked as a creative copywriter for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising.

She had her own television program in the United States on CBS and was a regular presenter on Network 10 Australia. In addition to radio broadcasting, she has written for TV, film and theatre.

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer, Veronica Anderson, travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out fifty years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy.

Date: Monday 23rd November 2009
Time: 10.30am
Venue: Adelaide Library
Cost: $15 General Admission, includes beverages and morning tea.
Bookings Essential: Phone 08 8223 5380
adelaideorders@dymocks.com.au

Matthew Reilly is now the international bestselling author of: Ice Station, Temple, Contest, Area 7, Scarecrow, Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, the children's book Hover Car Racer, and one novella, Hell Island. Published in over 20 countries and known for their highly visual style, fast pace and large-scale action scenes, over 3.5 million copies of his books have been sold around the world. Matthew’s novels have also - unexpectedly - become a major tool in the fight to get teenagers into reading. While written for a mature readership, Matthew’s novels have become very popular with reluctant male readers.

In 1996, following rejections from all the major publishers, Matthew self-published Contest, printing 1000 copies. He sold the book throughout metropolitan Sydney, one bookshop at a time and it was eventually picked by the fiction publisher from Pan Macmillan. His first industry-produced novel, Ice Station, proved so monumentally popular, that it had to be reprinted six times in its first two years.

Matthew Reilly will be talking about his eagerly awaited new novel The Five Greatest Warriors

Date: 30th October, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:30pm
Venue: Palace Cinema, Rundle Street (seats 290)
Tickets: $10 General Admission
Bookings and Enquiries: Phone 08 8223 5380
adelaideorders@dymocks.com.au

Cadel Evans is arguably Australia’s greatest cyclist, but he is by no means a typical sporting hero. Born in Katherine, he became one of the best mountain bike riders in the world. A master of one of the most solitary sports, Cadel has contested the most sophisticated cycling team sport in the world, finishing second by less than a minute in the 2007 and 2008 editions of the Tour de France.

In his first ever book, co-written by Rob Arnold , Cadel Evans: Close to Flying Cadel talks candidly and philosophically about his sport. He speaks with love, respect and also frustration at its imperfections including his many rivals caught on drugs. His drive and focus and frustrations are as candid as are his love of his sport and his belief in charities and political causes.

Date: Monday 2nd November, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Irish Club, 13-15 Carrington St, Adelaide
Cost: FREE
Bookings & Enquiries: Phone 08 8223 5380
adelaideorders@dymocks.com.au

Diana Gabaldon is the best-selling author of the Outlander series which tells the story of Jamie Fraser, a Scottish Highlander from the 18th century, and his time-travelling wife, Claire. Her books are difficult to classify by genre as they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction and science fiction, in the form of time travel.

Although American by birth, Diana has become fascinated by the history of Scotland, England, France and the USA in the mid-18th century when the struggles that would determine the shape of the modern world were taking place.

An Echo in the Bone is Diana's latest novel. In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife find themselves homeless and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. And thanks to his time-travelling wife’s information, he knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring.

Date:Tuesday 10th November 2009
Time: 6.45 for 7.30 start.
Venue:Mt Barker Library, 5 Dumas Street, Mt Barker
Cost: $20
Bookings & Enquiries: Mt Barker Library or Dymocks Adelaide 8223 5380

How well can you ever really know someone?

If anyone asked Larissa's husband, children or friends if she was happy, they would say yes. Sometimes too busy, sometimes irritable - but really, what in her wonderful life could be wrong? She has a happy marriage, a dream house, and everything she ever wanted at her fingertips.

Yet a chance encounter with a young man new to town hits her like a lightning bolt. Their connection is electric. Suddenly her lovely home life seems claustrophobic, and the familiar mundane. Irresistible passion drives her to contemplate the unthinkable. But if she dares to make the impossible leap, what will her life be then? Whatever choice she makes, someone will be betrayed...

Date: Tuesday 17th November, 2009
Time: 9:30-10:30am
Venue: Dymocks Adelaide
Cost: FREE
Enquiries: Phone 08 8223 5380
adelaideorders@dymocks.com.au

During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided . . . without its people's knowledge.

A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men - a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956.

MARALINGA is a story of British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a twelve-month posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of MI-6 and his undercover operative Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates.

MARALINGA is also a story of love; a love so strong that it draws the adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffmann halfway around the world in search of the truth. And MARALINGA is a story of heartbreak; heartbreak brought to the innocent First Australians who had walked their land unhindered for 40,000 years.

Maralinga . . . a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason.

Date:Sunday 22nd November
Time: 2-4pm
Venue:SA Sea Rescue Squadron
Barcoo Road, West Beach
Cost: $5
Bookings & Enquiries: 8356 3005

Ray Martin needs no introduction. Well known as the face of the Midday Show, A Current Affair, 60 Minutes, Carols by Candlelight... If you trust anyone on Australian television, you trust Ray Martin.

But Ray's was a less than stellar introduction to the glamorous world of television. Before he had even got to high school, he had lived in thirteen different places, in three Australian states, mostly in the bush. His father was a violent, drinking man who would lash out at his wife and children. His mother would uproot the family across to the other side of Australia to escape him. Ray's world was as far away from Hollywood and movie stars and the bright lights as is possible to imagine.

Here, now, in his own words, is the long-awaited, warts-and-all autobiography of Ray Martin. His exceptional career, his happy marriage to Dianne, and his lasting love-affair with the people of Australia.

Funny, thought-provoking and inspiring, this is the most compelling autobiography you will read this year.

West Lakes

Date: Wednesday 9th December, 2009
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Venue: Lakeside Room, Lakes Resort Hotel
141 Brebner Drive, West Lakes
Cost:$15 each (including coffee/tea and morning tea)
Bookings & Enquiries: Phone 8356 3005

Adelaide

Date: Wednesday 9th December, 2009
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Adelaide Library, 176 Tynte St, North Adelaide
Cost: $20, including drinks and nibbles.
Bookings & Enquiries: Phone 08 8223 5380
adelaideorders@dymocks.com.au

Dr Karl has taken on Santa Claus, atom bombs, 'friendly' dolphins and 'killer' whales, meteors, black holes, string theory and camel's humps. In his 27 mega-selling books, he demolishes myths, tells readers how to spot bogus science and advises readers to be wise, sceptical and to always challenge authority. In his 28th book he continues his crusade to keep the world a rational place by answering vital questions like 'Are white cats deaf?' and 'Will lemon juice make you slimmer?'

Date: Thursday 17th December, 2009
Time: 6:00pm
Venue:Dymocks West Lakes
Cost: FREE
Bookings & Enquiries: Phone 08 8223 5380
adelaideorders@dymocks.com.au