“When I was young I was pretty much afraid of everything..."
These are Jessica’s words, taken from True Spirit. In it she details the extensive preparation she and her team made for the big voyage, her journey and the battles she fought along the way – against sleep deprivation, gale-force winds mountainous seas and the solitude most of us can only imagine. When she sailed back into Sydney Harbour on 15 May 2010, after 210 days at sea, she was cheered in by a huge crowd that included Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. To many, Jessica was our newest hero. She disagreed, saying she wasn’t a hero, “just an ordinary girl who had a dream and worked hard at it and proved that anything is possible”. This is her story.
Jessica will be in store for book signings!
6.30pm Thursday 19th August 2010
Cost: $15.00 or $10.00 for Booklovers
Bookings/Enquiries: Kimberley or Jon at Dymocks on Albert: (07) 3007 2800/ 0421 078 083
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Dymocks Book Launch
Cathy Kelly
Eleanor Levine left Ireland seventy years ago with little more than a suitcase and her mother's handwritten recipe book. Now, a lifetime later, she's returning from New York with hard won wisdom and memories of her own. A renowned psychoanalyst, Eleanor knows there's one final journey she has to make...
Cathy Kelly is a No. 1 bestselling author in Australia. Born in Belfast, Cathy studied journalism and went to work at the Sunday World, Ireland's biggest tabloid Sunday newspaper, where she started in news but went on to become a feature writer, agony aunt, film critic and columnist.
Her debut novel, Woman to Woman, went straight in to the Irish bestseller list and stayed there for eight weeks. Once in a Lifetime, her eleventh novel published in paperback in September 2009 went to No 1 within days of its release. Her books are international bestsellers in the UK and Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
6.30pm Friday 17th September 2010
Cost: $20 (talk only and a copy of Cathy’s book Best of Friends)
Bookings/Enquiries: 07 38865704 Email:
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Dymocks Book Launch
Michael Robotham and Malla Nunn
Bestselling international crime writer, Michael Robotham (Shatter, Bleed for me, Night Ferry) will be joining award winning filmmaker and fellow crime author, Malla Nunn (A Beautiful Place to Die, Let the Dead Lie) for a talk through the wonderful genre of crime and what inspires them to keep creating new, thrilling plots.
6.00pm Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Cost: $15 or $10 for Dymocks Booklovers
Bookings/Enquiries: Kimberley at Dymocks Brisbane (07) 3007 2800 or
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The Irish Club
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