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Melbourne Rare Book Week 2019 booklet

City of Melbourne Libraries (2019- )5 to 14 July 2019

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City of Melbourne Libraries (2019- )

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5 to 14 July 2019

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LIB-EVE 000099

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Item: Melbourne Rare Book Week 2019 (LIB-EVE 000098)

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Title: Melbourne Rare Book Week 2019Blurb:A WALK ON THE MEAN STREETSAn exploration of the 1880s Melbourne of Fergus Hume. Hosted by Dr Lucy Sussex, an expert on Australian detective fiction, explore the sites of Melbourne featured in the books of Fergus Hume, author of Mystery of a Hansom Cab, on this walking tour. Hear extracts from the works of Hume along the way.MEET AT SCOTS’ CHURCHSaturday 6 July, 11am to 12pmOR 2pm to 3pm.VIEWS FROM OUTSIDERSCooking and culture in European crime fiction with Chris Browne. In some crime fiction, the setting and the cultural details are as important as the crime itself. Join Chris Browne, an avid fan and collector of this genre of popular crime fiction, for a comparison of four European cultures as he explores the worlds of Bruno, Brunetti, Gunter and Zen.LIBRARY AT THE DOCKTuesday 9 July, 6.30pm to 7.30pm.THE KNIFE IS FEMININEDiscovering Charlotte Jay. A panel discussion with Sisters in Crime Australia’s Carmel Shute and Katherine Kovacic, with Chris Browne. Readings by Abbe Holmes. The first winner of the Edgar Allan Poe award was an Australian woman, for Beat Not The Bones, a mystery book set in Papua New Guinea.LIBRARY AT THE DOCKWednesday 10 July, 6.30pm to 7.30pm.A PORTRAIT OF MOLLY DEANFiction from true crime. Crime fiction is often based on true crime. The murder of Molly Dean in November 1930 in Melbourne has prompted four books and a play. Join Katherine Kovacic, author of The Portrait of Molly Dean, in conversation with Chris Browne, for a discussion of the crime and the subsequent fiction of the life and death of an outsider on the fringes of Melbourne’s Bohemian elite.LIBRARY AT THE DOCKThursday 11 July, 6.30pm to 7.30pm.WHO DUNNIT? WHO WROTE IT?An exhibition of crime fiction books. Featuring books from our presentations on European crime literature and the Australian author Charlotte Jay, and a range of crimebooks available from the Footscray Mechanics Institute Library.Curated by: Chris Browne and Linda LongleyLIBRARY AT THE DOCKSaturday 8 June to Sunday 14 July

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