Resuming the Tuesday Book Club November 2024, with guest authors!

While we're still recovering from having to close Dymocks Camberwell, and Henk's health is still not the best, we're going to do a trial event to see if we can resume our First Tuesday Book Club events, with Dymocks Tooronga as the organiser.

We have kept the price as low as possible, in fact we're taking a hit even at this price, but we hope we can still count on our fantastic customers, supporters, and author fans, to book and join us for these previously hugely popular events, at the Rivoli Cinemas.

We would love to restart this event regularly, but that will depend on the support we get for this November one! So please book and share, invite your friends and family - there's fiction, non-fiction, young adult fiction, and a picture book, so it's autographed books for everyone this Christmas!

We are thrilled to be able to restart our First Tuesday Book Club, in conjunction with Rivoli Cinemas, for 2024. Obviously because of Cup Day, as usual, we're unable to do the actual First Tuesday in November, so please excuse the anomaly.

Kate Mildenhall is an author, writing teacher and podcaster. Her debut novel Skylarking was longlisted for Debut Fiction in the 2017 Indie Book Awards and the 2017 Voss Literary Prize.

Hummingbird Effect:

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread and their determination to shape their own stories, from the acclaimed author of The Mother Fault.

To Stir With Love:

From the acclaimed author, and bestselling illustrator, this beautiful, heartfelt collaboration celebrates the magic of grandmothers (and their secret recipes).
‘It’s my everything cake,’ Grandma says. ‘My grandmother’s grandmother gave it to her, and my grandmother gave it to me.’

Kathy Mexted is a writer, photographer and editor. Inspired by her father, she learnt to fly in 1991, before she became a writer.

In Take Flight, author and pilot Kathy Mexted celebrates the determination, skill and expertise of ten women who have beaten the odds to find success and joy in our skies.

From balancing on a wingtip to circling with eagles, Take Flight tells the stories of Australian women who have leapt, tumbled and dived, and reached for the stars.

Mark Mupotsa-Russell is a writer living on Wurundjeri Country in the Yarra Ranges. His debut novel, The Hitwoman's Guide to Reducing Household Debt, won the 2023 Affirm Press Mentorship Award. Before writing novels he was a screenwriter, film reviewer, cocktail columnist, PR consultant and communications adviser in the suicide prevention sector. He lives among the trees with his art therapist superstar wife, hilarious son and a moodle majestically named 'Mufasa'.

'I met my husband on the same day I committed my very last M**der. There's a joke in there somewhere, about ending two men's lives.'
Olivia Hodges used to do horrible things – back when she worked for a Spanish crime syndicate – but she fled that life and moved home to Australia, building a family in the hipster community of the Dandenong Ranges.

Katerina Gibson was born in 1994. She is a writer and a bookseller living in Naarm. Her stories have appeared in Granta, Overland, The Lifted Brow, Island Online, Going Down Swinging, the Meanjin blog andK*ll Your Darlings'New Australian Fiction 2020 anthology. Her short story 'Fertile Soil' was the Pacific regional winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Katerina is a 2021 Felix Meyer Scholar and a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2023. Her short story collection Women I Know won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2023.

The Temperature: A tweet. A storm. A secret. A revelation. In this age of isolation, what brings six very different people together?

Written with an extraordinary range of understanding, The Temperature is a compelling portrait of life in our fracturing society. Following the award-winning Women I Know, it confirms Katerina Gibson as one of the most ambitious, engaging and significant of our emerging writers.

Michael Earp is a non-binary writer living in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), the editor of Everything Under The Moon: Fairy tales in a queerer light, Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories and co-editor of Avast! Pirate Stories from Transgender Authors with Alison Evans. With a teaching degree and a Masters in Children’s Literature, they have worked between bookselling and publishing for over twenty years!

Avast: This treasure trove collection of stories from transgender authors unites characters who wield courage and creativity in exhilarating escapades, all in search of a place to call home.

Everything Under the Moon: Some damsels don't want to be rescued. Some curses don't need to be broken. And some of the best happy ever afters won't be found in storybooks.

Dymocks Tooronga

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (03) 9045 9845

There will be no door sales, so please secure your tickets early to avoid disappointment. Book with confidence, knowing that a full refund will be provided if we need to postpone or cancel the event for any reason. (Unless the event is cancelled, refund requests are only available until 24 hours before the event. Tickets are not transferable to later dates.)

Sign-in will start 6.15pm, for everyone to be seated by 7pm for the author presentations to start.

We look forward to seeing you at the Rivoli Cinemas.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Cinema 8, Rivoli Cinemas, 200 Camberwell Rd, Hawthorn East, Australia