Amazing moment for Siang Lu as he wins #MFLA2025 #MILESFRANKLI
Congrats to Siang Lu winning #MFLA2025 #MILESFRANKLIN for his novel Ghost Cities, rejected 200 times over 10 years! 👏🏾🙌🏾👏🏾🙌🏾📚
They’re about to announce #MFLA2025 #MILESFRANKLIN 🤞🏾🙌🏾👏🏾📚
Picture the scene.
It's 1901. It's Paris. You make a bet with some friends that you could walk around the world, funding the entire trip by selling postcards featuring photos of YOURSELF. You set off.
This is the story of Charles Millot. Read it now at: orkneyarchive.blogspot.com
Great to find @johnkerrison.me here too!
The recording of Miles Franklin Literary Awards Gleebooks Shortlist Authors Talk is now available! Tune in to hear Winnie Dunn, Julie Janson & Siang Lu in conversation about their shortlisted works & Australian literature today.
Listen here: buff.ly/eaICZJ9
Photo: Dan Turner
@gleebooks.bsky.social
Nick Cave hasn’t donated any books to us but we do have many of the titles he did donate, and 1000s more. Come in and get lost in our second hand books collection! #booksky www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Fascinating, inspiring, moving, funny... just like their books! Hear 2025 #MilesFranklin shortlisted authors Winnie Dunn, Julie Janson & Siang Lu share their stories on Sydney Review of Books/UTS #auslit podcast Fully Lit w/ @sunilbadami.bsky.social at #Gleebooks! #booksky
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Big laughs, big books 📚
The MFLA Shortlist Authors Talk lit up Gleebooks with energy, truth & humour.
🎤 Dunn (Dirt Poor Islanders)
🔥 Janson (Compassion)
😂 Lu (Ghost Cities)
Read more here: buff.ly/rsvFzN8
Photo credit: Dapper Dan Photography
@gleebooks.bsky.social
#book people are the best people! Look what landed on the counter this week to brighten our day!
Thank you Suna – right back atcha! Discover more inspiring and vibrant events on our events page – and see you in the shop soon! #booksky #auslit
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👏 Congrats to the shortlisted authors of #auslit premier prize 2025 #MilesFranklin Literary Award! Meet shortlisted authors Winnie Dunn, Justine Janson & Siang Lu in an exclusive showcase presented by @copyright.com.au & Perpetual next Wednesday 2 July! #booksky 📚
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Let us know how you go @lawsonvictoria.bsky.social – we're usually quicker than that! But give us a call on 02 9660 2333 or email us at orders@gleebooks.com.au and we'll jump on it!
Join us for NSW Showcase of Best of Australian Poems 2024 @gleebooks.bsky.social on Sunday 29th June, 3pm. Free, but must RSVP. Readings from acclaimed poets: Kate Lilley, Pam Brown, Michelle Cahill, Jake Goetz, Dan Hogan, Sara M Saleh, Ali Jane Smith, and Toby Fitch gleebooks.com.au/event/best-o...
Thanks so much for the shout out @zenashapter.bsky.social! #loveozya and love ya work! Grab YOUR signed copy of When Dark Waters Burn in-store, or buy a copy (and When Dark Roots Hunt) online here! #booksky #auslit gleebooks.com.au/product/when...
Join us on 2 July at Gleebooks for an insightful live panel featuring three shortlisted authors in conversation. Enjoy a lively Q&A and a reception with refreshments.
Presented by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.
Book your tickets here: buff.ly/p14K1fh
Only half a Moore, which is why she’s known as a “demi” Moore
In the midnight hour
she cried
Moore, More, Moore
With a rebel yell
she cried
Moore, More, Moore
Love reading? Have thoughts? @copyright.com.au Cultural Fund & Sydney Review of Books #SRB are looking for Australia's next top emerging critic with a generous stipend of $4,500 for publication in SRB. Closes 23 June. #booksky
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If you can’t spare a room, fill a pillar.
#booksky #books #design #writingcommunity
Given their dominance in every other sphere of society, do we need more male novelists? | Books | @theguardian.com
What do you think? Some acclaimed authors share their thoughts.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Nathan will be discussing his extraordinary story with Rebecca Huntley at Gleebooks THIS Tuesday. Tix at gleebooks.com.au/events/ – selling fast!
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Feisty, forward thinking, & fearless, Beatrice Faust paved the way for generations of fantastic feminists to follow. Join Judith Brett & Annabel Crabb as they celebrate The Fearless Beatrice Faust tomorrow at our Glebe shop! Tix here: bit.ly/3YYskXZ
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If music be the food of love, how have forces like religion, the economy, society and technology, shaped the music menu over time? Find out as Andrew Ford & Kirsty McCahon chat about A Short History of Music at their
#Gleebooks launch via Radio National's Big Ideas! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
... and that's a wrap! Another amazing, inspiring, bigger and better than ever Sydney Writers Festival has ended, featuring the world's best writers – & best read audiences! We're thrilled to be official booksellers... & exhausted after a huge week! Thanks to all our fab booksellers, #SWF... & you!
🥳Congrats to our dear friend Michelle de Kretser for deservedly winning the #StellaPrize for #TheoryandPractice. She launched #TheoryandPractice with us and came back for our #SundaySessions book club to talk about it. Brava! 👏👏👏
Love reading but given up on reading? We've all been there! Acclaimed author @elifsafak.bsky.social has some great tips on how to reignite your passion for books, and why we need novels, via @theguardian.com. ❤️📚
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
WHS says you shouldn't dance on counters but when it's literary legend Jeanette Winterson the rules don't apply. We're proud to be Sydney Writers Festival's official bookseller. Hope we'll see you there! Check out the fantastic program and keep dancing... and reading! www.swf.org.au 💃📚
