Author talk: William McInnes

Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 at 12:00 am UTC+10:00

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Author talk: William McInnes
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You’re in for a cracker of a morning! Bestselling author and acclaimed actor William McInnes returns with It's a Scorcher!: Tales of the Australian Summer.
Join William at Victoria Point Library as he shares this collection of hilarious and heartwarming stories about those magical, roastingly hot months that make an Australian summer.
This event is part of our Star-Studded Spring line-up!
FREE EVENT. BOOKINGS MUST BE MADE VIA THE LIBRARIES WEBSITE (select the tickets link above to proceed to the libraries website)
About the book:
There is something about long, hot summer days that stirs our emotions. It's all about holidays, festivals, family and Christmas; a time for swimming, a hit of backyard cricket or firing up the barbie. It's the deafening sound of cicadas, the ticking of a backyard sprinkler, the pain of a wayward bindi or the sting of sunburnt shoulders.
In this collection of nostalgic stories that will make you laugh and make you cry, William McInnes recalls moments in time and memories of summers past. He takes us back to the energy-sapping heat of Redcliffe in the 1960s and 70s, ruminates on budgie smugglers, remembers holiday road trips that went on forever and epic Boxing Day Tests that stopped fans in their tracks. This is a book about the Australia we are and the Australia we were - and the magic of those boiling-hot days when you wake up and know . . . it's going to be a scorcher!
About the author:
William McInnes is established in his ability both as a columnist and author in writing pieces that celebrate life whilst encompassing the wide emotions and situations being human can bring. His bestselling titles are A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, Cricket Kings, That'd Be Right, and The Making of Modern Australia.
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