A French conversation club will be held at the Travellers Bookstore, led by published French native Jean-
Baptiste Pouchain, every Saturday from 2:30pm
- 294 Smith Street Collingwood
- Vic 3066 Australia
- tel: +61 3 9417 4179
Mutation Theatre Presents ‘Liberate Yourself From My Vice-Like Grip’
As part of the Next Wave Festival, Mutation Theatre presents ‘Liberate Yourself From My Vice-Like Grip’
Season: May 19-27, 8pm*
*Except for Thursday 24th at 9pm. No performance Monday 21st.
Full $20, Conc $15
Bookings: Venue Tix- 1300 30 40 72 or online at nextwave.org.au
For the best part of three decades Pat Walsh battled against the odds for human rights in East Timor, then enjoyed the privelidge of working in the new nation during its first ten years after independence from Indonesia. At the Scene of the Crime is a collection of his writings from this enthralling period.
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- Zafon, Carlos Ruiz
- Text Publishing
- $24.95
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘cemetery of lost books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles long out of print. To this library, a man brings his ten- year- old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945.
Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out ‘La Sombra Del Viento’ by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure that reminds him of a character from the book, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax’s works in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind.
- Cornish, Richard and Camorra, Frank
- Murdoch Books
- $70.00
Feel the pulse of its thriving tapas bars, watch the speed and grace of its wait staff, inhale the aroma of sizzling chorizo and savour the salty sweetness of crayfish straight off the grill .
From its flagship restaurant in Melbourne’s Hosier Lane, to the opening of its latest venture Pulpo, MoVida has always embodied the heart and soul of Spanish cuisine. By fusing local and international flavours and pushing culinary boundaries, the MoVida restaurants have irrevocably changed the landscape of Australian dining.
- Nolan, Dee
- Penguin Books
- $79.95
A thousand-year-old pilgrimage route and food traditions stretching back de toda la vida – since forever.
These are what Dee Nolan set out to experience on her pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela – through the rich farming lands of southern France and northern Spain, green Spain.
The monks who came here in the Middle Ages to look after the first pilgrims planted grapevines from their homelands far away.
- Various
- Lonely Planet
- $30.00
This is not a guidebook. And it is definitely not-for-parents.
Cool stuff to know about every country in the world. Everyone knows the world’s highest mountain, but do you know which country banned chewing gum? Or what’s the world’s stinkiest fruit? Or who invented roller skates? Or which building leans more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Or where can you eat fried spiders as a snack?
The world is a very big place, and in The Not-for-Parents Travel Book we’ve concentrated on the really interesting bits to create a snapshot of what each country is like.
