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Some of the invited readers

Some of the invited readers

 

INVITED READINGS

in order of appearance

 

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

 

PUBLIC READINGS

7 August 2011

in order of appearance

 

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

PUBLIC READINGS

11 September 2011

in order of appearance

 

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