Dymocks Bookstore

Maeve O’Meara is the presenter and producer of the enormously popular series Food Safari made for SBS Television. Her new book Food Safari takes the reader on an adventure into 34 diverse and fascinating cuisines by exploring the basic ingredients of each cuisine and making the exotic familiar. Offering simple foolproof recipes that anyone can cook at home it is a fascinating journey into new worlds, making delicious discoveries.

Where:Moorilla
When: Monday 2nd November 2009
Time:12:30pm
Tickets: $75 available at Dymocks Hobart
Enquiries: Hobart@dymocks.com.au or 03 6231 6656

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.

Where:Centrepoint Shopping Centre
When: Friday 13th November
Time:12:30pm
Cost: FREE
Enquiries: Hobart@dymocks.com.au or 03 6231 6656

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.

Where:Hadleys Grand Mecure Hotel, Murray Street Hobart
When: Sunday 15th November
Time:1:00pm
Tickets: $30 available at Dymocks Hobart
Enquiries: Hobart@dymocks.com.au or 03 6231 6656

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.

Where:Hadleys Grand Mecure Hotel, Murray Street Hobart
When:Monday 7th December
Time:1:00pm
Tickets: $30 available at Dymocks Hobart
Enquiries: Hobart@dymocks.com.au or 03 6231 6656