Kate Grenville at Bookoccino Kate will be coming on monday November 14 at 10:30 to talk about her new book, Sarah Thornhill. Tickets $15 and we’ll be having morning tea.  Call us on 9973 1244 to book.
	John Bell John Bell will be coming to the Newport Rec Centre, 11 The Boulevarde, Newport on wednesday November 30 at 6:30.  He’ll be talking about his new book, On Shakespeare. Tickets:  $15, refreshments provided. Date:      November 30, at 6:30 pm To book, call Bookoccino on 9973 1244

In April we’ll be starting a new series of events in the cafe courtyard. Conversations in the Courtyard will launch with John-Paul Bell talking about his book Laughter is the Best Medicine, life with Australia’s clown doctors. As Jean-Paul says Ýou see, I’m not really a doctor. Not a medical doctor, that is. I’m something a bit more unusual. I reckon I have the best job in the whole world - I’m a clown doctor!’ Come and here Jean-Paul tell us about his life visiting sick children in hospital, bringing laughter and fun to more than 100,00 patients and families each year. Cost is $5 which includes coffee, and we’ll start at 10:30am. Bookings essential, call us on 9973 1244.

Clive Small at Manly Library

Date: Wednesday April 14

Time: 6:30pm

Cost: $5

Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, the sale and stockpiling of dangerous weaons, extortion and large-scale fraud; the outlaw motorcycle gangs with their fortified club houses and amphetamine labs; and the Calabrian Mafia, always dangerous and opportunistic. Even more frightening, through the influence of radical Islam, organised crime and terrorism have begun to merge. Our jails are turning drug dealers and car thieves into holy warriors willing to kill indiscriminately for their cause. Clive Small and Tom Gilling will take us deep into this new, dark and violent Australian underworld.

/td>	Literary Lunch with Lyndey Milan and Ian Hemphill Venue: Manly Golf Club, 38-40 Balgowlah Rd, Manly Date: Monday March 29 Time: 12 noon Cost: $85
	Literary Dinner with Ray MartinVenue: Manly Golf Club, 38-40 Balgowlah Rd, Manly Date: 10th November, 2009 Time: 6.30pm Cost: $85 per person
	Lunch with Bill GrangerVenue: Manly Golf Club, 38-40 Balgowlah Rd, Manly Date: 6th April, 2009 Cost: $85
	Lunch with Wendy HarmerVenue: Manly Golf Club, 38-40 Balgowlah Rd, Manly Date: 5th May, 2009
	Dinner with peter FitzSimonsVenue: Manly Golf Club, 38-40 Balgowlah Rd, Manly Date: 9th June, 2009
	Author Talk with Bob Ellis Venue: Manly Library, Market Place, Manly Date: 24th June, 2009