This Year's Booklovers' Fest and Kate Holden's Bedside Reads

We have a lively Booklovers' Festival brewing for June with lots of authors from near and far appearing at the libraries throughout the month for 'Live Reads'. Stay tuned for the details.

Last year's Booklovers' Festival celebrated our regular book chat program 'Bedside Reads'. Author of In My Skin and The Age columnist Kate Holden shared the books she had on her bedside table. I've included the list below for interested booklovers...

Chabon, Michael Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Cole-Adams, Kate Walking to the Moon
Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
Eliot, George Middlemarch
Grenville, Kate Lieutenant
Gribbin, John The Fellowship
Hartnett, Sonya Butterfly
Heard, Barry Well Done Those Men: Memoirs of a Vietnam Veteran
Jones. Lloyd Mister Pip
Knox, Elizabeth Angel’s Cut
Lanagan, Margo Red Spikes
Le Guin, Ursula Lavinia
Llewellyn, Kate Playing with Water
Macfarlane, Robert Wild Places
Mantel, Hilary Giving up the Ghost: a Memoir
“ “ “ Learning to Talk: Short Stories
Michaels, Anne Winter Vault
“ “ “ Fugitive Pieces
Murdoch, Iris Nice and the Good
Pamuk, Orhan My Name is Red
Reed, Kirsten Ice Age
Rowley, Hazel Tete-a-tete: the lives and loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Angel’s game
St John, Madeleine Women in Black
Sparrow, Jeff Communism: a love story
Waugh, Evelyn Officers and Gentlemen 

(This list was compiled by Kate for her chat about books at the Bedside Reads: Booklovers Festival on Wednesday 28 July 2009)