Please join Alan Brough at a celebration at the State Library on Friday 20 March, 4 - 5pm when he announces the the top five books, as voted by Victorian readers in the State Library of Victoria’s Summer Read program 2008-9, and voter’s prizes.

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State Library of Victoria
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne

RSVP by Wednesday 17 March 2009

Telephone                   8664 7555
email                          learning@slv.vic.gov.au
book online                summerreadawards.eventbrite.com

Thanks Jeff for your thoughts on research, writing and the Iceberg Theory. Hope your computer is working soon Jill.

As part of the free Summer Read events across Victoria, Jeff and Jill will be appearing at:

Walking Tour departing from City Library, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne and finishing at The State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston Street Melbourne on Wednesday 28 January 2009, 6.00 – 7.30 pm
For more information phone 9658 9500 – EVENT BOOKED OUT

Vote for Radical Melbourne or SMS RADICAL to 13 46 88

Jeff and Jill Sparrow are the next Summer Read authors blogging from 21 – 25 January.

Brother and sister Jeff and Jill Sparrow live in Melbourne. They co-authored the books Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within. Jeff’s book Communism: A Love Story was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award in 2007. He is the editor of the literary journal Overland. Jill is co-author (with Paul Voermans) of the forthcoming novel Parliament of Sims.

Their book Radical Melbourne is one of the books on the Summer Read shortlist.

Radical Melbourne leads readers through political history via the streets and buildings of today’s inner city – turning familiar city landmarks into monuments to passionate political struggles past. Have you ever wondered why Parliament House contain gun slits, an escape passage and a dungeon? or what city block covers nine thousand corpses?

As part of the free Summer Read events across Victoria, Jeff and Jill will be appearing at:

Walking Tour departing from City Library, 253 Flinders Lane Melbourne and finishing at The State Library of Victoria, 328 Swanston Street Melbourne on Wednesday 28 January 2009, 6.00 – 7.30 pm
For more information phone 9658 9500 – EVENT BOOKED OUT

What Jeff says about summer reading

“In the the summer, I read P. G. Wodehouse. The real world might be going to hell in a handbasket but in Wodehouse stolen cow creamers eternally return, the word ‘Eulalie’ keeps the Black Shorts of amateur dictator Sir Roderick Spode at bay, and Jeeves noiselessly appears with restoratives whenever young gentlemen feel rocky after a night at the Drones Club.”

What Jill says about summer reading

“Summer’s a good time to lie in the backyard with a radical book, enjoying (at least for a few hours!) the illusion that doing nothing will help change the world…”