First Tuesday Book Club July 2025, with guest authors!

Located at Tooronga Village, just across from Coles!Owned & operated by the same local family as Dymocks Camberwell.

Dymocks Tooronga

Dymocks Tooronga continues the First Tuesday Book Club in 2025

Village Cinemas Rivoli

<h1>Join us for our mini author festival!</h1> We hope you'll join us for our First Tuesday Book Club meeting for July 2025Tickets are $40 each and include entry, a welcome drink, and a selection of canapes served prior to the presentation. Plus, a FREE reading copy from our free book selection, as donated to us by our lovely publishers. <h3>The spectacular authors joining us this month:</h3> <h3>Sienna Macalister &amp; Ange Crawford</h3><h3>Matt Rogers</h3><h3>Ali Berg &amp; Michelle Kalus</h3><h3>Kate Halfpenny</h3><h3>Dr Micaela Sahhar</h3><h3>Joel McKerrow</h3> <h3>Sienna Macalister &amp; Ange Crawford - Someone Like Me (non-fiction essays)</h3>2 more authors from the expansive anthology of creative non-fiction, memoir, graphic storytelling and more from a stellar line-up of Autistic gender-diverse and women writers ANGE CRAWFORD (she/her) is a writer, editor and PhD candidate living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her debut young adult novel, How to Be Normal, won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize. Her writing is driven by curiosity and experimentation, and as a result meanders across genres and styles but is often connected by her enduring interests in queerness, art, storytelling, place(lessness) and language. Apart from writing and editing, she is a fan of cats and synthesisers, and can often be found with an armful of books in a local independent bookstore. SIENNA MACALISTER (they/them) is an emerging screenwriter and influencer. Sienna is multiply neurodivergent and lives with chronic illness. They believe the way to inclusivity is through education and understanding. They are passionate about authentic representation of people with all support needs in the media. To do this, Sienna is pursuing a writing career to elevate stories that represent their communities. One of their short films, One Closed Door (2019), was a semi-finalist in the Changing Face International Film Festival and the Eurasia International Film Festival. Over 34,000 followers engage with Sienna’s TikTok. You can find them at Sienna.Stims on TikTok and Instagram, and Sienna_Stims on YouTube. <h3>Matt Rogers - The Forsaken (crime fiction)</h3>A Logan Booth ThrillerFor ten years, Logan Booth served as a contract killer for the CIA – he just never knew it. The first book in a blockbuster thriller series from Matt Rogers, a million-copy bestseller and 'a bright new talent shaking up the genre' (Candice Fox).Matt began self-publishing at the age of eighteen, and in the following eight years he single-handedly wrote and marketed more than thirty-five thriller novels. His books have collectively sold over one million copies. His stories weave stimulating philosophy with relentless, page-turning action, and he aims to educate and entertain in equal measure. As an ultramarathon runner and mountain trekker, Matt enjoys exploring the capabilities of the body and mind, lending experiential weight to his visceral writing. You can follow Matt on Facebook and Instagram @mattrogersauthor. <h3>Ali Berg &amp; Michelle Kalus - Love Overdue (RomCom fiction)</h3>Steamy, funny and uplifting, Love Overdue is a bookish rom-com about first loves, second chances, and discovering how sometimes the best plot twists come along after you think the story's over. 'Love Overdue is a heartwarming rom com about the ink your first love leaves on your heart. Ali &amp; Michelle are brilliant at creating cosy bookish worlds you don't want to leave and endearing love stories you don't want to end.' Steph Vizard, author of The Love ContractAli and Michelle have been best friends for life. As ten year olds, they could be found ditching play time for writing club. They are the co-founders of Australian social initiative Books on the Rail, where they leave books on public transport for people to find. When they're not writing books, Ali is a copywriter and Michelle is a primary school teacher. They both live in Melbourne with their respective families and colour-coordinated bookshelves. <h3>Kate Halfpenny - Boogie Wonderland (memoir)</h3>From The Age / Sydney Morning Herald's best-read columnist Kate Halfpenny, Boogie Wonderland is a funny, relatable and sometimes devastating memoir about marriage, menopause, identity, empty nest syndrome and the confronting morass of midlife.When Covid lockdowns hit Melbourne, metropolitan midlife couple Kate and Chris decide to make a sea change and move to a small coastal town to ease financial pressures and live out the beach lifestyle many of us dream of. But they didn't give much thought to just how different it would be. With late night drinking sessions in Melbourne's coolest suburbs replaced by the disconcerting peace of a summer destination largely quiet for the rest of the year, they're suddenly rattling around in their beautiful new home without kids, friends or a real community.Kate Halfpenny has spent four decades telling other people's stories as an award-winning writer, editor and commentator for Who, Vogue, Marie Claire and ABC Radio. Her own plot twists include three kids, two husbands, and one mission to talk honestly about midlife as a columnist for The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. Post-pandemic, Kate fled Melbourne for Ocean Grove, where she boogie boards daily and has become unafraid of magpies. A former synchronised trampoline champ and tapestry fan who's learning the Rocky theme on piano, she's trying to break up with Botox and cooking. <h3>Dr Micaela Sahhar - Find Me at the Jaffa Gate (memoir)</h3>Fixing its gaze on moments, places and objects from the streets of Bethlehem to the Palestinian neighbourhoods of the New Jerusalem Find me at the Jaffa Gate assembles a story of Palestinian diaspora, returning to the origins of violence in the Nakba.'If we were different people, to write down these words might be to leave them behind us. But words are our artifacts, and I am seeding a trail for the journey, home.'Micaela Sahhar is an Australian Palestinian writer and educator living on Wurundjeri Country. Her essays, poetry and commentary have appeared in Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, Rabbit and Sydney Review of Books, among others. She is a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter Fellow (2021), a grant recipient from the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund (2022), which enabled a trip to Jerusalem in the latter stages of writing this book, and was commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship (2024). <h3>Joel McKerrow - Heist 1: The Great Chocolate Caper (children's fiction)</h3>A hilarious middle-grade HEIST series that's out of this world. Meet the Heist squad. AKA a motley crew of hot-headed misfits who HATE each other but LOVE chocolate. But then they discover a sinister chocolatey plot, right in the bowels of their high school, that will threaten the entire human race with utter annihilation. Can they put aside their differences to achieve the most audacious chocolate heist EVER and save the world?Joel McKerrow is an award-winning writer, keynote speaker, creativity specialist, children's author, educator and, having performed for hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world, is one of Australia's most successful performance poets. Dymocks Tooronga<ul><li>Email: tooronga@dymocks.com.au</li><li>Phone: (03) 9045 9845</li></ul>There will be no door sales, so please secure your tickets early to avoid disappointment. Book with confidence, knowing that a full refund will be provided if we need to postpone or cancel the event for any reason. (Unless the event is cancelled, refund requests are only available until 24 hours before the event. Tickets are not transferable to later dates.)Sign-in will start 6.15pm, for everyone to be seated by 7pm for the author presentations to start.We look forward to seeing you at the Rivoli Cinemas.

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