Dymocks Tooronga - 200 Camberwell Road, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country (Hawthorn East), VIC
Melanie La'Brooy at Dymocks Tooronga Book Club
We hope you'll join us for our First Tuesday Book Club meeting for February 2025
Tickets 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. You can get your tickets here.
The wonderful authors joining us:
Hazel Edwards
Maryrose Cuskelly
Anna Johnston
Geoff Parkes
Melanie La'Brooy - Talisman of Fate series (Children's fiction)
The Wintrish Girl: Talismans of Fate Book 1 (CBCA Notable Book 2023)
A wildly fun debut about not quite belonging, forging your own path and finding your true home.
The Lost History: Talismans of Fate Book 2
The enthralling sequel to the multi-award-winning fantasy epic The Wintrish Girl - perfect for fans of Nevermoor and Discworld
Melanie La’Brooy writes funny and action-packed fantasy adventure novels for middle-grade readers that tackleserious themes. For fourteen years Melanie travelled the world, living in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. She previously wrote five books for adults, which were published in Australia and internationally, before realising that writing for kids was 100 times more fun (and 1000 times harder). Her debut novel for children, The Wintrish Girl, won the Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction and the inaugural DANZ (Diversity in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand) Children's Book Award. It was also shortlisted for the Readings Children's Prize and was a CBCA Notable.
The Lost History, which is the sequel to The Wintrish Girl and Book Two in the Talismans of Fate series, is out now. Melanie has written for The Age on politics and social justice issues and her Talismans of Fate series mirrors these interests. Readers will find all the hallmarks of fun fantasy adventures in her books, such as impossible escapes from terrifying villains, wildly imaginative travel portals and a highly-sensitive dragon but they will also encounter real-world issues such as racism, colonialism and book banning.
Melanie’s surname is pronounced La-Broy, like boy but with an r. It’s confusing, she knows.
