Discover our exciting Author Talk Program with visiting authors inspiring your reading and writing:
Coming Up:
Mental Health Month: Turning Your Dreams Into Reality: Author Talk with Eila Jameson-Avey
Wednesday 16 October 5.30pm
During a battle with mental health, Eila Jameson-Avey wrote Wellworth which was published. It was a dream she’d had since she was a child but never expected to fulfil. It was this dream that helped overcome the mental health condition that crippled her for half a decade.
Eila would like to share her experience and motivate others to be brave enough to realise their dreams when she presents an author talk at Orange City Library on Wednesday 16 October at 5.30pm during Mental Health Month. Please book your place here.
Eila had a fantastical existence as a young child, writing stories and making them into small books, with stapled spines. She has completed The Year of the Novel with Emily Maguire at Writing NSW and has a Graduate Certificate in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. Winning the Lane Cove Literary Award in 2021 gave her the faith to keep writing.
She’s happiest spending time on the rural property she shares with her husband and two Dalmatians with a few writing projects to work on. This event is supported by Collins Booksellers, Orange and books will be available for sales and signing during the evening. Come along and hear about Eila’s experience – it may help you or someone you know.
Local Author Beckie Plant launches her new children’s book Bob, Anxiety and Me
Discover a story about Bob – a helpful friend who can light your way through the struggles of anxiety and make sense of big worries. Bob will remind you that you are brave, courageous and amazing – even if you are a little bit scared. You can get through anything with Bob by your side.
Local author Beckie Plant launches her latest children’s book Bob, Anxiety and Me at Orange City Library on Sunday 26 October at 2pm. Guest speaker will be Member for Orange, Phil Donato.
Copies of Bob, Anxiety and Me will be available for sales and signing on the day. Everyone is welcome to attend this event.
Please book your place online or call us on 6393 8132.
Meet Bestselling Author Benjamin Stevenson at Cowra Library 10am and Orange City Library 5.30pm on Wednesday 6 November – he’s funny, witty and a talented crime writer!!!
Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author and will be our guest ‘in conversation’ at Cowra Library on Wednesday 6 November at 10am and Orange City Library on Wednesday 6 November at 5.30pm.
He is a USA Today best-selling author and author of the globally popular ‘Ernest Cunningham Mysteries’, including Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, which is currently being adapted into a major HBO TV series, and Everyone on the Train is a Suspect. His books have sold over 750,000 copies in twenty-nine territories and have been nominated for eight ‘Book of the Year’ awards. His latest mystery is Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret to be launched in October.
When a Christmas show takes a dark turn after a magician’s guillotine trick goes awry, who should be in the front row? After solving the cases of his murderous family and an ill-fated train trip filled with crime writers, Ernest Cunningham finds himself slipping back into the shoes of detective to unravel not one by two tricksy crimes!
In classic Stevenson style we have suspense and devious puzzles, fun and humour, all tied together with a neat bow. When he isn’t writing mysteries, he’s an award-winning comedian who has sold out live shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Witty, pacy and fiendishly clever, Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret is one helluva sleigh ride!
Collins Booksellers, Orange will be there to support sales and signings at both events. Book your place for Benjamin Stevenson’s talk at Cowra Library here and for Orange City Library here.
Don’t miss the crime writer everyone is talking about!!!
New Date: Orange City Library: Hugh Mackay Launches The Way We Are Tues 26 November 5.30pm
Hugh Mackay launches The Way We Are at Orange City Library on Tuesday 26 November at 5.30pm.
Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. Yet none of our differences – whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion, cultural tastes and preferences, or gender – are nearly as significant as the humanity we share.
Drawing on thousands of interviews over a lifetime of research, Hugh Mackay, much loved and highly respected social psychologist, presents a compelling portrait of Australia today.
This event is supported by Collins Booksellers, Orange. Please book your spot online or call Orange City Library on 6393 8132.
The Way We Are is his final work of social analysis and a book-end to his illustrious research career. See you there!
Local Author Leesa Ronald Launches Special Delivery at Orange City Library Wed 4 December at 5.30pm
An entrancing, laugh-out-loud enemies to lovers romantic comedy!! If you like Book Lovers by Emily Henry and No Hard Feelings by Genevieve Novak, you’ll love Special Delivery! The novel is set in Orange and published by Allen & Unwin.
Leesa Ronald is a mum of three kids aged under five who writes as therapy whenever she gets the chance. Prior to getting absorbed into corporate/mum life, Leesa’s writing won awards through the Poetry Institute of Australia, the Banjo Paterson Poetry Festival and ABC’s Heywire writing competition. Her work has been published in Style, Mamamia, HealthSmart, Women’s Health and all international editions of Reader’s Digest. Leesa is currently enrolled in a Curtis Brown creative writing course and is working on her second novel.
Come along and help Leesa Ronald celebrate Special Delivery at Orange City Library on Wednesday 4 December at 5.30pm. Collins Booksellers, Orange will be there to support sales and signings during the evening. All welcome. Please book your spot online or call the Library on 6393 8132.
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Thank you to our incredible authors who visited during 2024:
Craig Semple – The Cop Who Fell to Earth
Alicia Thompson – Writing Workshop: Exercise Your Writing Muscles
Dr Anne Ring – Engaging with Ageing
DT West – A Step Towards Freedom
Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist: The Glass House
Scott Honeysett – Shattered Branches
Brendan Lamerton – Bonded
Ruth and Don Pollack – “In conversation” Suggy’s Men, and Clouds and Sunshine
Andrew Skeoch – Deep Listening to Nature
Seana Smith – going under
Special 2024 author events
Seniors Week Author Tour with Dr Anne Ring – Engaging With Ageing
Live-streaming Live & Local annual Sydney Writers Festival in May (3rd Year)
Orange Readers and Writers Festival on the first weekend in August with guest authors – ABC TV Compass presenter Indira Naidoo – Space Between the Stars (in conversation with freelance journalist Marianna Saran), Rhys Gard – Four Dogs Missing, Gabbie Stroud – the things that matter most, Ian W. Shaw – The Golden Gang: Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian History (Eugowra Gold Escort), and Rachael Mogan McIntosh – Mothering Heights. Friday Writing/Editing Workshop with local author Kim Kelly: Making Your Writing Shine.
Thank you to all our wonderful authors who visited during 2023:
Nat Amoore – The Right Way to Rock
Lisa Ireland – The One and Only Dolly Jamieson
Christine Stewart – Collits’ Inn: Uncovering the Past
Seana Smith – The Australian Autism Handbook
Inga Simpson – Willowman
Rachael Mogan McIntosh – Pardon My French – Library UpLate event
Maggie Mackellar – graft
Dianne Yarwood – The Wakes
Harold Treasure – King’s Spur – “in conversation” with Reading and Writing Coordinator Jasmine Vidler
Claudia Harrison – Dinner First
Kate Gadsby – Convicts, Capitalists and Corruption – Research and Maps Talk to celebrate Orange Family History Group’s 40th anniversary
Colin Bower and Richard Medd – Orchids of Central Western NSW
Beckie Plant – children’s art book Amazing Like You
Sallyanne Pisk – Eating For You
Greg Mutton – 12th Realm – Sci-Fi series
Kamille Roach – former Banjo Paterson Writing Awards winner launched crime novel Pine Creek set in the Central West
Dirty Janes duo Athol Salter and Jane Crowley – launched Beeswax and Tall Tales
Judy Nunn – Black Sheep
Penelope Janu and Pamela Cook – A Country Vet Christmas
Amanda Hampson – The Tea Ladies and The Cryptic Clue
Dr Gregory Smith – Better Than Happiness: The True Antidote to Discontent
Hannah Diviney – I’ll Let Myself In
Hayley Rawsthorne shared her debut children’s book – These Little Feet – at Storytime
Stuart Lloyd – Started Out Drinking Beer – The Mental As Anything Story – “in conversation” with drummer David ‘Bird’ Twohill
David Marr – Killing For Country: A Family Story – “in conversation” with Orange City Librarian Sean Brady
Kim Kelly – Ladies Rest and Writing Room co-winner of the Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Novella Publishing Prize
Special 2023 Author Events:
Touring Kids One Library One Book author Nat Amoore with The Right Way to Rock
Touring Adults One Library One Book community read – Dianne Yarwood with The Wakes
Live-streaming Live & Local annual Sydney Writers Festival in May (2nd Year)
Orange Readers and Writers Festival on the first weekend in August with guest authors – Grantlee Kieza – The Remarkable Mrs Reiby, and Knockout, Yvonne Weldon- Sixty-Seven Days, Adam Courtenay – Mr Todd’s Marvel, Michael Thompson – How to be Remembered and Kim Kelly – The Rat Catcher. Sunday Podcast Workshop with Michael Thompson.