It’s our birthday, so come celebrate with us this August
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Nicholas Building Open Studios and Arcade's 3rd Birthday Party!
Come check out the artisans of the Nicholas Building as 50-odd makers across nine floors in this decrepit historic building leave their doors ajar for two nights of artistic stalking.
You'll find us in the Vali Myers Studio in room 2 on level 7 along with secret squirrels Hidden Secrets Tours, architect Angela Nicholas (yes this is her lineage!) and the multifarious Supple Fox (amazing what a pair of cats can do with a ball of string).
On friday night we're celebrating three years of telling tales by saddling up all the Arcade horses and hoping for cakes that look like this. Or not. Bargain books guaranteed.
When: 5-9pm Thursday 19 and Friday 20 August
Where: The Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
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Melbourne, she gets better with age
Of course Melbourne is much older than the 175 she claims to be, just ask Jenny Lee or read about it in her book Making Modern Melbourne.
But August is surely the most Melbourne of months, so a birthday in August is the perfect way to honour the old girl. To celebrate, we’re launching our newest history of the city: Seamus O'Hanlon's Melbourne Remade, which charts Melbourne's radical transformation since the 1970s, from industrial wasteland to cultural heartland.
Seamus will host four exclusive book-based walking tours during the Melbourne Writers Festival – and conveniently, there’s one right before the launch! Join him for a stroll along the Yarra from Docklands to Fed Square and then for coffee, in thoroughly Melbourne style.
Launch of Melbourne Remade
When: 4pm Sunday 29 August
Where: Feddish, Fed Square
How much: Free to attend, books: $20
Walking tours
When:
2-4pm Saturday 28 August
2-4pm Sunday 29 August
2-4pm Thursday 2 September
2-4pm Sunday 5 September
How much: $55 includes a coffee and book
Bookings: 03 9663 3358
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Melbourne by the Book walking tour is back again!
Join Fiona Sweetman on the literary beat for a look at what makes Melbourne a UNESCO City of Literature. This 1.5hr walking tour weaves its way though our literary history and visits some of our iconic bookstores. Includes coffee, bickies and a copy Lisa Lang's EW Cole: Chasing the Rainbow, Arcade's first little book about a bloke, his newspaper wife, their monkeys and the biggest bookstore in the world - right here in Melbourne.
When:
11am-1pm Saturday 28 August
11am-1pm Monday 30 August
11am-1pm Tuesday 31 August
11am-1pm Wednesday 1 September
11am-1pm Thursday 2 September
How much: $55 includes a coffee and book
Bookings: Hidden Secrets Tours 03 9663 3358
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Oslo hits the airwaves
But wait, there's more! Now's your chance to overhear Oslo Davis talk about how he synthesised a city – a country! – on 774ABC Melbourne radio, in conversation with local legend Jon Faine.
When: 11am-12pm Monday 16 August
Where: 774 ABC Radio Melbourne and ABC local radio across Victoria
Oslo Davis goes out of sight (but not out of mind) as he hit the airwaves with ABC Sydney's James Valentine (former Model). Seems Sydneysiders love to eavesdrop just as much as their Melbourne friends (or foes)!
Listen here Recorded 11/08/2010 , 5:04 PM
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Ebooks (special subscriber bundle offer!)
In honour of our first UK sale we're offering Aus customers an 'ebundle' - any three ebooks for 20 bucks. Goddamn that's a good offer! Better than free knives.
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New & upcoming titles
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On sale now
OVERHEARD
Oslo Davis
Have you ever overheard a hilarious comment while making your way from here to there? Oslo Davis has made a career of it, becoming the ears and eyes of the city and recording his observations for us all to enjoy (or cringe over).
Now Oslo’s mini-masterpieces can be viewed all in one place, promising hours if not years of voyeuristic delight from the comfort of an armchair, train seat or park bench. Gain new insight on the human condition and the joys and dilemmas of life in the modern age. |
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August launch
MELBOURNE REMADE
The Inner City Since the 70s
Seamus O'Hanlon
Come on a journey beyond the city’s beloved laneways and read the palimpsest that is Melbourne.
Taking up where Making Modern Melbourne left off, Melbourne Remade charts the social and cultural consequences of globalisation, the rise and rise of postmodern monoliths, and the recent resurgence of the CBD as a place to live, work and play. |
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October launch
MacRobertsonland
Jill Robertson
Welcome to MacRobertson’s Great White City, a land of candy delight!
Macroberstonland tells the amazing rags to riches tale of Australia’s very own Willy Wonka, MacPherson Robertson. Mostly lost to history, the man behind some of Australia’s (and the world’s) favourite confectionery – including Freddo Frog, Cherry Ripe and Old Gold chocolate – was an eccentric self-made millionaire and generous philanthropist whose spirit reflected all the hopes and dreams of a young nation.
Jill Roberston (no relation!) shares the wonderful story of this remarkable character with warmth and wit, with just a little gossip thrown in for good measure. |
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