Bookshop, Library & Festival Events – December 2025
| Date | Host | Event Details | ||
| 2nd | Deep See Survey | Poetry Circle Time: 6.45pm Venue: Deep See Survey, Shoreham | ||
| The Bookshop at Queenscliff | The Slip Miriam Webster Time: 6pm Venue: in store, Queenscliff | |||
| Dymocks Tooronga | First Tuesday Book Club with Sofie Laguna, Jess Racklyeft, Nova Weetman, Antonia Pont, David Mitchellhill-Green, Mal Walden, Jeff Steel, Rick Wilkinson Time: 6.15pm Venue: Rivoli Cinema | |||
| Sorrento Writers Festival | Don Watson How America became the United States Divided in convo with Corrie Perkin Time: 6pm Venue: Gasworks Art Park, Albert Park | |||
| BMI Ballarat | An evening with William McInnes It’s a Scorcher Time: 6pm Venue: BMI Library | |||
| Northern Books | Books at the Brewery – A double bill with R J Murdoch Finchie and The Missing Men and Coleen Clare Minoan Footsteps Time: 6.30pm Venue: Shedshaker Brewer | |||
| Glen Eira Libraries | In conversation with Gabriel Bergmoser High Rise Time: 6.30pm Venue: Bentleigh Library | |||
| 4th | Paperback Bookshop | Salon Series with Pip Finkemeyer, Eartha Davis, Jennifer Mackenzie, Sinead Stubbins, Lili Ward, Miriam Webster Time: 4pm – 8pm Venue: Coats Community Arts, Collins St. Melb | ||
| Ink Bookshop Mansfield | A Christmas Evening with Alli Parker Until the Red Leaves Fall and Marion Taffe By Her Hand Time: 6pm Venue: in store, Mansfield | |||
| Merribek Libraries | Helen Garner, Chloe Hopper & Sarah Krasnostein The Mushroom Tapes Time: 6.30pm Venue: Coburg Town Hall | |||
| GV Libraries | Author Talk: James Noller Voices of the Future Time: 6.30pm Venue: Shepparton Library | |||
| 5th | Bendigo Library | Author Talk: Michael J Leach Chords in the Soundscapes Time: 5.30pm Venue: Bendigo Library | ||
| 6th | Girls Night Book Club | Book Swap with book chats, drinks & nibbles Time: 3pm – 5pm Venue: Lilac Wine Bar, Cremonre | ||
| Book Launch | The Lost Children by Susan McDonald Time: 10am Venue: 453 Victoria Street, Brunswick | |||
| Brunswick Bound | The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project Readings Music and More! Help Robert Skinner get his razzle-dazzle back, with readings from Any Griffiths, Cate Kennedy, Michael Winkler and more… Time: 7pm – 11pm Venue: Coburg RSL | |||
| 8th | The Shameless Book Club | Sally Hepworth Mad Mabel in convo with Zara McDonald Time: 6pm Venue: Urban Alley, Chadstone | ||
| 9th | Bookatini | Killer Conversations with Christian White, Laura McCluskey, JP Pomare, Matt Rogers Time: 6.30pm Venue: The Pharmacy at Hotel Esplanade, St. Kilda | ||
| Writers Victoria | Open Mic Night Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm Venue: Writers Vic, Melbourne | |||
| Antipodes Bookshop | Styled By Sally with Sally Mackinnon Time: Venue: in store, Sorrento | |||
| 10th | The Book Deal Podcast | ONLINE Spoiler Book Club The Hiding Place Madeleine Cleary will chat LIVE with Kate Mildenhall for this free, spoiler-ridden book club Time: 7pm Venue: online – Zoom | ||
| Indigenous Literacy Foundation | Trivia Night Fundraiser with Brian Nankervis Time: 6.00pm -9.00pm Venue: Collingwood Town Hall | |||
| Hill of Content | Summer Jamboree with Tony Birch, Antonia Pont & Angus Keech Time: 6.30pm Venue: in store, Bourke Street, Melbourne | |||
| 11th | The Bookbird Geelong | Christmas Party with live jazz, bubbles, nibbles, gift wrapping and 20% off all books! Time 6pm – 8pm Venue: in store | ||
| Melton City Libraries | An evening with Carly Findlay OAM Time: 6.30pm Venue: Melton Library | |||
| 12th | Merribek Libraries | Queering Home, a storytelling and spoken word event with Jax Brown, Kanika Chopra, Darcy Green & Elijah Money Time: 6pm Venue: Brunswick Library | ||
| 16th | Northern Books | Books at the Brewery – Christmas 2025 This year we celebrate the latest Anthology from Fremantle Press: Rivers Flow: Reflections on the songs of Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter To celebrate the release of this beautiful collection of stories which are a wonderful tribute to the strength, artistry and enduring spirit of two of Australia’s most cherished artists and cultural leaders, we will be asking a number of guests to do a reading from the book. More on who those guest readers will be is to come. We will also welcome Carmel Bird and Sofie Laguna to The Taproom to chat about their new books. Time: 5.30pm Venue: Shedshaker Brewery |