Child Migrant Story - The Long Way Home Book Launch

A book launch for The Long Way Home - by Jo Bailey with Ronnie Sabin will be held in these locations tomorrow Friday 12 March: Meet the authors at the front of Jayes Gallery and Cafe from 10am - 12 noon, 31 - 33 Gidley Street, Molong or Boomers' Bookshop, City Centre, Orange 2pm - 4pm. The book is promoted as the story of Fairbridge Farm School that needs to be told. "At last a balanced account of life at Fairbridge through the eyes of Ronnie Sabin, who for six years in the 1950s called Fairbridge Farm School at Molong home. Often hilarious, sometimes heart-wrenching, The Long Way Home adds a positive perspective to the Child Migrant Scheme debate. It pays tribute to Fairbridge and details Ronnie's delight as finally being reunited with his family in England after 55 years." It retails for $29.95

Turning Life into Memoir with She Played Elvis

American immigrant to Australia, Shady Cosgrove, undertook a pilgrimage across American to Graceland for the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death in the hope of rediscovering her homeland. Shady will share with us the story of this journey, why she sang Elvis songs at cities and towns along the way, and then how she came to write the memoir She Played Elvis. A moving, witty and original meditation on the idea of pilgrimage, family, home and loss, and a classic road story and a journey of self-discovery set to an Elvis soundtrack; a story told with a clear-eyed, intelligent, unforgettable grace.

Shady teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2006, Antipodes, Southerly and Overland.

You are invited to meet Shady at Parkes Library, Bogan Street, Parkes, located behind the Post Office ph: 6861 2309 on Friday 8 January 2010 at 2pm. This is free event and includes afternoon tea

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