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SPECIALIST COLLECTIONS
Our specialist collections group together favourite and unique genres, sub-genres, themes and authors.
*PLEASE NOTE, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED ONLINE DUE TO THE CURRENT LOCKDOWNS*
Author In-conversation
Join Narrelle M Harris and Lucy Sussex in conversation about The Only One in the World: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology (Clan Destine Press).
Sherlock Holmes, the character created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, is now arguably the world’s most famous fictional detective.
Book now to avoid disappointment.
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Thursday, 28 October 2021 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm Geelong Library and Heritage Centre
How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Join the 2021 Winner of the 2021 of the State Library of NSW's General History Prize
In this generous and carefully written account, Luke Keogh brings a curator’s eye to produce a detailed history of one object—but it’s so much more than that.
Luke is the Curator at the National Wool Museum in Geelong.
Thursday, 11 November 2021 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm Belmont Library
Discussing the highly anticipated new historical adventure from the bestselling author of The Champagne War.
This new historical novel is as lush as it is tense and adventuresome. It’s the fish out of water tale as a young woman from a sleepy railway hamlet in the north of Yorkshire is drawn into intrigue and becomes responsible for protecting lives and a nation as she meets the right person at the wrong time. Set in 1930s Britain and Germany.
Thursday, 11 November 2021 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm Virtual Event
David will be appearing with special guest Facilitator Charles Firth to discuss Girt Nation, The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 3.
David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia’s transformation from aspiration to nation – an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren’t going to take it anymore.
Tuesday, 16 November 2021 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm Virtual Event
Presented by Geelong Gallery and Geelong Regional Library Corporation
A film about controversial artist and Archibald Prize Winner Keith Looby, followed by a Q&A with the film's producers Merilyn Alt and Sean Murphy.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Archibald Prize, and the Archie 100 exhibition at Geelong Gallery, join us for a free screening of Looby, a documentary on controversial painter and winner of the 1984 Archibald Prize, Keith Looby.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s producers Merilyn Alt and Sean Murphy.
Saturday, 27 November 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm Geelong Library and Heritage Centre
Writers' Workshop presented by Geelong Regional Libraries
Finished your first draft? Congratulations. Now the real work begins.
A completed first draft is just the start of the writing journey.
The workshop will include discussions, sharing of ideas, techniques and resources as well as writing exercises to improve imagery, develop characters and tighten dialogue.
Saturday, 4 December 2021 - 10:30am to 3:30pm Geelong Library and Heritage Centre
Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing
The research-based approach to ageing well.
Secrets of Women's Healthy Ageing draws on the findings of a unique study that has focused on the health of more than four hundred women in their mid-to-late lives. Over the past thirty years a team of international investigators has compiled a remarkable amount of data, aiming to raise awareness of modifiable risk factors in women's health.
Wednesday, 8 December 2021 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm Geelong Library and Heritage Centre
Barwon Heads Library is temporarily closed as a precaution, due to a positive COVID-19 case at the Barwon Heads Primary School.
The Geelong Regional Libraries’ app is your portal to the library, easily accessible from your mobile device.
The app is compatible with both Apple and Android phones and tablets and is available now through the iOS App Store and Google Play.
