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Some of the invited readers
Tony Marshall, Collector
read from ABC for Book Collectors
by John Carter
Amy Jackett
read from The God in the Ink
by Kathryn Lomer
Jeff Malpas, Philosopher
read from Helen’s Exile
in Lyrical and Critical Essays
by Albert Camus
Isabel Howard
read from Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
Craig Judd
read from Travels in Hyperreality
by Umberto Eco
Lucia Usmiani
read in Italian from The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
Constantine Koukias, Composer
read from The History Of Byzantine Music and Hymnography
by Egon Wellesz
Anne Mestitz, Artist and Mother
read from We all Self-Conscious (First Poems)
by Oliver Mestitz
Pat Brassington
read from Good Bones
by Margaret Attwood
John Xintavelonis
read from Willis and the Echo
by Craig Wellington
illustrated by Cheryl Lloyd
Danielle Wood and Finn Godfrey
read from Obstreperous
by Ted Greenwood
Nick McKim MP
Greens Leader and Minister for Education
read from The Lorax
by Dr Seuss
Chalit Kongsunan (Num)
read in Thai from Sustainable Development
by Phar Dhamma Pidok, Po Payudto
Lucy Frost, Writer and Academic
read from Collected Poems
by E E Cummings
Lily Walker
read from Whose Eggs?
by Jeannette Rowe
Airlie Ward, ABC Broadcaster
read from Marley & Me
by John Grogan
Morgan Hart
read from The Lost Thing
by Shaun Tan
Mary Scott
read from The Third Policeman
by Flann O’Brien
Dereham Scott
read from La Bella Lingua
by Dianne Hales
Lara Giddings, Premier of Tasmania
read from Caddie
by Caddie
Ben Joseph
read from Hover Car Racer
by Matthew Riley
Lucy Hawthorne
read from Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Cassy O’Connor, Greens’ Minister
read from Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
Ralph Crane, Professor of English
read from The Siege of Krishnapur
by J G Farrell
Bill Bleathman
Director Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
read from Coorinna:
A Novel of the Tasmanian Uplands
by Erle Wilson
The Lord Mayor of Hobart
Alderman Rob Valentine
read from Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales
Journals of His Tours In New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land, 1810 – 1822
Julie Gough
read from Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829 – 1834
edited by N J B Plomley
His Excellency
The Honourable Peter Underwood AC
Governor of Tasmania
read from Wanting
by Richard Flanagan
Darren Cook
read from Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
Sarah Day
read The Ox
from The Trees: Selected Poems 1967 – 2004
by Eugenio Montejo
translated by Peter Boyle
Senator Christine Milne
read from Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Juliet Beale, Librarian
read from Restoration
by Rose Tremain
Clive Tilsley
read from Frank Auerbach
by Robert Hughes
Noel Frankham
read from Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
Catherine Schulz, Bookseller
read from The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Reverend Professor Michael Tate AO
read from War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Josef Klementovics
read in German from Frost
by Thomas Bernhard
Rosemary Miller
Director Salamanca Arts Centre
read from Clara Morison
by Catherine Helen Spence
Suan Lee
read from Alias Grace
by Margaret Attwood
Pete Smith
read from Picnic At Hanging Rock
by Joan Lindsay
Claire Krouzecky
Artist and MFA Candidate
read from The Gift
by Vladimir Nabokov
Natasha Cica
read from A View from Afar:
Jewish Lives in Tasmania from 1804
edited by Peter & Ann Elias
Llewellyn Negrin, Academic
read from The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
Will Hodgman, MP
read from Born to Win
by John Bertrand
Heather Rose, Author
read from The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
Kevin Redd
read from Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls,
by Edward Leslie
Jonathan Holmes, Art Historian
read from Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
by Richard Holmes
Peter Gee, ABC Broadcaster
read from The Outsider
by Albert Camus
Emma Howard
read from The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
Michael Edwards
read from The Library
by Brigita Ozolins
Kevin Johnson (Johnno), 7HoFM
Breakfast with the Stars
read from The Book Thief
by Marcus Zusak
Leigh Hobba
read an extract from his father’s notebook (RIP)
Jane Turner, 7HoFM
Breakfast with the Stars
read from April Fools Day
by Bryce Courtenay
Amanda Carmen Cromer, Writer
read from The Bell Jar
by Silvia Plath
Adrian Franklin, Anthropologist
read Business Girls
by John Betjeman
from The Best of Betjeman selected by John Guest
Ieva Šaulis
read in Latvian from Mārīte
by Ruta Skujiņa
Brigita Ozolins
read from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari
Zack Stephenson,
School Student
read from Deltora Quest: City of the Rats
by Emily Rodda
Ryk Goddard
read from Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
Will Joseph
read from Have a Nice Day
by Spike Milligan
Jeffrey Scott Blake
read from Archaeology and the Pan Romanesque
by Tadhg O’Keefe
Raef Sawford
Artist, Videographer and PhD Candidate
read from The Catcher in the Rye
by J D Salinger
Bruno B Kunda
read from Where’s the Green Sheep?
by Mem Fox
Lauren Miller
read from Ten Little Fish
by Audrey and Bruce Wood
Annie Chessells
read from The Peace Book
by Todd Parr
Olivia Bowman
read from Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jude
read from The Friendship Book
by Francis Gay
Rebecca
read from The Ginger Bread Man
by Folk Tale
Meg and Lilian
read from The Dream Time Book
by Charles P Mountford and Ainslie Roberts
Hunter Sweet
read from Dunbi the Owl
by Daisy Utemorrah
Mia Sweet
read from Little Bear’s Trousers
by Jane Hissey
Saz Newbery
read from Almost French
by Sarah Turnbull
Kaitlyn Brooke Pickett
read from Kisses for Daddy
by Francis Watts and David Legge
Janet Cahill
read from When we have Wings
by Claire Corbett
Victor Medrano
read from Don Quixote
by Cervantes
Terry Hampson and Ella
read from The Story of Dolly Duck
illustrated by Suzy-Jane Turner
Molly McCausland
read from The Web
by Nette Hilton
Serena Rule
read from Croatia, by Rebecca West
in Journeys, edited by Robyn Davidson
Elizabeth Woods
read from Frightmares
by Peg Kehret
Neil Haddon
read from Austerlitz
by W G Sebald
Nikki Barr
read from A book of Luminous Things
by Elizabeth Bishop
Gil Sawford
read from Corporate DNA
by Ken Baskin
Craig and Rex Maddock
read from Maisy’s Pool
by Lucy Cousius
Eliza Marshall
read from Ella Kazoo will not Brush her Hair
by Lee Fox and Cathy Willcox
Katelyn ten Bensel
read from A clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Toni ten Bensel
read from The Lost Thing
by Shaun Tan
Phillipa Foster
read from The Surgeon of Crowthorne
by Simon Winchester
Stella Sawford
read from Mog’s Christmas
by Judith Kerr
Jude Sawford
read from Rainbow of Thoughts
Karen Laura-Lee Wilson
read from Gaining a sense of self
by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson
Luca Nunn
read from Charlie and the chocolate factory
by Roald Dahl
Thomas Magor
read from Why cities change
by R Cardew, J Langdale & D Rich
Jan Colville
read from By and large
by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Valerie Baxter
read Gerard Manly Hopkins: a selection of his poems and prose
edited by W H Gardner
Jason Tall
read from The chronicles of Narnia: the voyage of the Dawn Trader
by C S Lewis
Melody E Douglas-Cameron and Penelope Kinghorn
read from Mouse
by Fiona Watt
Penelope Kinghorn
read from Pooh and the millennium
by John Tyerman Williams
Mary Jenkins
read from Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
Roderick Cheyne
read from A new earth
by Eckhart Tolle
John Smythe
read from Hornet flight
by Ken Follett
Jacqui Noonan
read from Darker than night
by Tom Henderson
Robyn Cheyne
read from At the beach
by Roland Harvey
Mitchell Guyatt
read from Gaining a sense of self
by Karen Laura-Lee Wilson
Riley Guyatt
read from Willie the wimp
by Anthony Browne