Who else will you meet at the live reads Booklovers Festival?

We have two fantastic authors visiting Yarra Plenty Library tonight.

Arnold Zable will appear at Mill Park Library from 7pm-8pm.

Ithaca, the island of Homer’s Odyssey, has beguiled readers for millennia. In his latest novel, Sea of Many Returns, award-winning author Arnold Zable takes us to modern-day Ithaca, to its mountains, its villages and its harbours, and into the houses of its people. Arnold Zable is a writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate, who speaks and writes with passion about memory and history, displacement and community.

Formerly an Arts lecturer at Melbourne University, his books include the critically acclaimed Jewels and Ashes, which depicts his journey to Poland to trace his ancestry, and Wanderers and Dreamers, a book of tales depicting the history of Yiddish theatre in Australia. Zable’s best selling novel, Cafe Scheherazade, depicts the lives of former refugees who now meet in a coffee shop in a seaside suburb in Melbourne. The Fig Tree is a book of true stories set in Greece, Eastern Europe, inner Melbourne and outback Australia and his novel Scraps of Heaven, is set in the post-war immigrant community of the Melbourne suburb, Carlton.

Booking required: phone Mill Park library on 9437 8189, or book online at http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/

Books will be available for purchase and signing with thanks to ELTHAMbookshop.

Rosanna Library will host Simon Caterson tonight 7pm-8pm

Simon Caterson writes on literature, art, ideas, history and popular culture for newspapers and magazines. Born in Melbourne he trained as a lawyer before travelling to Ireland where he completed a postgraduate degree in Irish literature at Trinity College, Dublin.

From imaginary voyages through to modern art frauds, literary scandals and impostures, Hoax Nation covers everything from Plato to Norma Khouri, the Tichborne Claimant to Ern Malley. In this cook’s tour of 2500 years of tall stories about and from Australia, Melbourne writer Simon Caterson shows why Australia has been a hoax nation since ancient times.
Since the early 1990s when his work began appearing in The Age and The Australian, Caterson has published hundreds of items there and elsewhere, his work comprising essays, features, interviews, reports and reviews. In 2004 he had a six-month stint as a columnist at the Sunday Age.

One of Caterson's essays, 'Building the total university', was selected by Robert Dessaix for the 2005 edition of the Best Australian Essays annual. Caterson wrote introductions to new editions of Australian classics The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and Madame Midas, both by Fergus Hume, and The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederick Manning.

Booking required: phone Rosanna library on 9459 6171, or book online at http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/

Books by Simon Caterson will be available for sale and signing, with thanks to Arcade Publications.