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Friday 27 June 2025
Music: Tanya-Lee Davies
Tanya-Lee Davies specialises in dreamy, country pop and psychedelic folk, and is big on melody, lush vocals and lyrics that cast spells. As she prepares to deliver her next LP,...read more
Friday 4 July 2025
Music: Gryphon Baryton Trio
This concert is a rare chance to hear live some of the fascinating chamber works by Joseph Haydn for baryton. The magnificent baryton, an instrument similar to a bass viol, was...read more
Monday 28 July 2025
Sixty Years a Bookseller
When a teenaged girl started a retail business with her parents in Essendon in 1965, she could not have imagined the life-long adventure that she had just begun. Today that...read more
Tuesday 29 July 2025
Outrageous Fortunes
Lucy Sussex, author of Blockbuster about Fergus Hume, the biggest selling crime fiction writer of the 19th century, has now published, in collaboration with Megan Brown, the story of Mary...read more

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