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Thursday 19th November, Fraser's
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: |
Thursday 19th November 2009 |
| Time: |
10.30am |
| Venue: |
Fraser's at Kings Park |
| Cost: |
Tickets $35.00 includes morning tea. |
| Bookings: |
Ph: 08 9385 6820 E: melissa.harkins@dymocks.com.au
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Store Events

Morning Tea with Paullina Simons
Tompkins on Swan, Wednesday 18th November 2009
Sip tea with Paullina Simons who will be talking about her most recent book, A Song In The Daylight.
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: |
Wednesday 18th November 2009 |
| Time: |
10:00am to 12:00noon |
| Venue: |
Tompkins on Swan, Alfred Cove |
| Cost: |
$30 per guest which includes finger sandwiches, pastries, cakes (gluten free provided on request), author talk, question and answer session, book sales and signing. |
| Bookings: |
For bookings, please call Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687 or 9364 7387. After hours, Ann on 9315 5568 or email gcorders@dymocks.com.au
If you are unable to attend and would like to order a signed copy of any of Paullina's books please call Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687 or special orders on 9364 7387, country callers 1800 559 299 |
Meet Bestselling Author, Di Morrissey
Booragoon, Thursday 19th November 2009
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: |
Thursday 19th November 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Garden City, Booragoon |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Bookings: |
If you are unable to attend and would like to order a signed copy of any of Di Morrissey's books please call Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687 or special orders on 9364 7387, country callers 1800 559 299 |
Booragoon, Thursday 19th November 2009
Get up close and personal with Andrew Reid and Corey Oliver who are 2 of the lifeguards from Bondi Rescue and get a behind the scenes glimpse of the top-rating, Logie Award winning TV show.
They will be signing copies of Out the Back with Bondi Rescue.
| Date: |
Saturday 21 November, 2009 |
| Time: |
11:00am - 1:00pm |
| Venue: |
Garden City Central Fashion Mall, Booragoon |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
If you are unable to attend and would like to order a signed copy please call Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687 or special orders on 9364 7387, country callers 1800 559 299 |

Ellenbrook, Tuesday 1 December 2009
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.
Meet Judy Nunn and have your book signed at Ellenbrook Community Library
| Date: |
Tuesday 1st December 2009 |
| Time: |
7:00pm |
| Venue: |
Ellenbrook Community Library |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Bookings: |
9297 9600 |
Booragoon, Saturday 5th December 2009
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.
Meet Judy Nunn and have your book signed at Dymocks Garden City
| Date: |
Saturday 5th December 2009 |
| Time: |
11:00am - 12:00pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Garden City, Booragoon |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687
or special orders on 9364 7387, country callers 1800 559 299 |
Midland Gate, Saturday 5th December 2009
Head Pastry Chef at Alain Fabregues' award-winning Loose Box restaurant, Le Paris-Brest Patisserie Francais and Choux Cafe - which was recently judged 'best in the west' by the Sunday times - Emmanuel Mollois will be in Dymocks Midland Gate signing copies of his book 'Voila'.
| Date: |
Saturday 5th December, 2009 |
| Time: |
12:30pm - 1:30pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Midland Gate |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Bookings: |
08 9274 7766
midland@dymocks.com.au
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Midland Gate, Wednesday 9th December 2009
It seems that dancing is not Paul Mercurio’s only passion and judging by the popularity of his foodie travel show "Mercurio’s Menu" it is a passion well shared.
Meet Paul and get your copy of Mercurio’s Menu personally signed.
| Date: |
Wednesday 9th December 2009 |
| Time: |
3:00pm - 4:00pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Midland Gate |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Bookings: |
08 9274 7766
midland@dymocks.com.au |
Booragoon, Thursday 10th December 2009
It seems that dancing is not Paul Mercurio’s only passion and judging by the popularity of his foodie travel show "Mercurio’s Menu" it is a passion well shared.
Meet Paul and get your copy of Mercurio’s Menu personally signed.
| Date: |
Thursday 10th December 2009 |
| Time: |
6:00pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Garden City, Booragoon |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
If you are unable to attend and would like to order a signed copy of Mercurio's Menu please call Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687 or special orders on 9364 7387, country callers 1800 559 299 |
Fremantle, Thursday 10th December 2009
It seems that dancing is not Paul Mercurio’s only passion and judging by the popularity of his foodie travel show "Mercurio’s Menu" it is a passion well shared.
Meet Paul and get your copy of Mercurio’s Menu personally signed.
| Date: |
Thursday 10th December 2009 |
| Time: |
11:00am |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Fremantle |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
Phone: 08 9335 8131
Email: Fremantle@dymocks.com.au |
Midland Gate, Saturday 12th December 2009
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.
| Date: |
Saturday 12th December 2009 |
| Time: |
11:00am |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Midland Gate |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
08 9274 7766
midland@dymocks.com.au |
Garden City, Booragoon, Thursday 17th December 2009
Dymocks Garden City, Booragoon invites you to meet promising new writer Tasma Walton!
What does it mean to break your heart? Or to be stabbed in the heart? What happens when your heart is torn out as a young child - do you ever recover? And can true love really mend a broken heart? Would we all be better off it we were born heartless?
Tasma will be signing copies of Heartless her highly entertaining and heart wrenching novel.
| Date: |
Thursday 17th December, 2009 |
| Time: |
5:00pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Garden City, Booragoon |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
If you are unable to attend and would like to order a signed copy of Heartless please call Dymocks Garden City on 9364 7687 or special orders
on 9364 7387, country callers 1800 559 299 |
Midland Gate, Saturday 19th December, 2009
Theo & Co. covers all aspects of pizza making, from the raw ingredients and the fine art of dough to the decadent and delicious finished pizzas. Step by step instructions, effective tips and stunning photos make it possible for us all to be master pizza chefs in our own home.
| Date: |
Saturday 19th December 2009 |
| Time: |
10:00am - 11:00am |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Midland Gate |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
08 9274 7766
midland@dymocks.com.au |
Midland Gate, Saturday 19th December 2009
Kate Lamont’s stunning new cookbook Wine and Food, explores the fine art of wine and food matching. Drawing upon her experience as both a winemaker and chef Kate takes readers through the basics of wine and food matching. As much a recipe book as a manual for creating the perfect dining experience.
| Date: |
Saturday 19th December 2009 |
| Time: |
11:00am - 12:00pm |
| Venue: |
Dymocks Midland Gate |
| Cost: |
FREE |
| Enquiries: |
08 9274 7766
midland@dymocks.com.au |