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Roaring Stories

Locality: Balmain, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9810 5613

Address: 268 Darling St 2041 Balmain, NSW, Australia

Website: http://roaringstories.com.au

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24.01.2022 Congrats to Ceridwen Dovey, who has won the 2020 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for Science Writing for WIRED article, 'True Grit'! Aside from her fascination with moondust and other lunary matters, the multi-talented Dovey is a novelist. She was with us last week to talk about her new fiction, LIFE AFTER TRUTH. Watch the conversation on our YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tifdd1pjAw Dovey's winning article, alongside all shortlisted pieces, will be published in 'The Best Australian Science Writing 2020', in store 1 December.

24.01.2022 Before our livestreamed author talk this Tuesday, read an extract from Garry Linnell's Moonlite an epic work of narrative nonfiction about the poetry-loving convict, romantic madman, and gun-toting gay bushranger that was Captain Moonlite. Find out more about the event: Garry Linnell | Moonlite

23.01.2022 Local author Meg Mason's debut novel gets a glowing review! Says award-winning essayist Fiona Wright, Sorrow and Bliss is 'an incredibly funny novel [that] still manages to be sensitive and heartfelt.'

18.01.2022 A hallucinatory novel about Noah's wife, a vision of Tasmania without modern technology, and a Black Mirror-esque collection of twisted short stories. Roaring Stories staff have been reading some very entertaining spec fic this month.

14.01.2022 Make an evening date with us this Thursday (3 Dec) to get your Christmas shopping sorted! Roaring Stories will be open all the way up until 8pm. Plan your visit by perusing our reading guides: https://www.roaringstories.com.au/catalogues/ Sign up to Roaring Stories newsletter for more offers and perks!... https://www.roaringstories.com.au/sign-up/ See more

14.01.2022 There's a lot of books we also loved on this list! Is there a 2020 title you adored that's missing?

11.01.2022 Our lovely Bronwyn with an armful of great new nonfiction reads from Jerry Seinfeld's new book assembling all the material that's worked on stage since '75, to the authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue, one of Australia's most respected Indigenous leaders. Come have a browse!

10.01.2022 What will you be serving up for your family these holidays? Try something new and delicious from our wide range of cookbooks, with recipes ranging from Asian, Mexican, vegan, Australian to Middle Eastern cuisine.

07.01.2022 "'Who would have thought that a daggy little kid showing off on a septic tank in suburban Perth would one day have dessert with a princess?’ is just one of myriad funny recollections in this most engaging memoir." Soar is one of our top nonfiction books this month! Read more: https://bit.ly/3d3der0

06.01.2022 What a lovely surprise to have Chris Hammer come by Roaring Stories yesterday! His new crime novel TRUST, set in a Sydney riven by corruption, is the third in the Martin Scarsden series, and it has all the markers of a ripper yarn.

03.01.2022 It was the thought of his six-year-old grandson that motivated Barry Jones to write his new book. "I think every day, almost every hour: What kind of world are we going to leave him? Read our interview with the former Labor politician, 'Sleepers, Wake!' author and indefatigable intellectual here.

02.01.2022 Balmain isn't just a village of readers We reached out to talented local authors Caroline Beecham Author, Meg Mason, LA Larkin Author and Richard Fidler to ask which book they have enjoyed the most this year.