

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Steve Toltz at the Constant Reader!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (+10:00)
- **Event Description**: Join us to hear Steve discuss his brand new book A Rising of the LightsAbout this EventWine and nibbles will be served.ABOUT THE BOOKFrom the Booker-shortlisted author, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself.'The cure for loneliness causes loneliness. That's the human condition.'In a reeling world of fraudsters and hypnotists, sleep talkers and estranged twins, false alibis and second chances, Rusty Wilson is beset on all sides by mysteries. Why was his childhood decided by a throw of dice, why has his wife confessed to a lover, and why do his parents no longer wish to see him?When Rusty loses his job to an AI system, Edwina, the mercurial friend of his youth, finds him a new role as an oracle to the young. But how can he advise anyone on what it means to be human when artificial consciousness appears within reach? If it's all just one more con, it's not clear who's scamming who. Besides, should any of it matter to Rusty, when all he wants is for those he loves to love him back?What holds a life together when everything is coming apart?'Truly wondrous. Nobody on this troubled, glorious planet writes, thinks, feels, amuses, surprises, dazzles quite like Steve f-ing Toltz! I was left awed and, yet again, bloody envious.' Trent Dalton'Brilliant, hilarious, eccentric and beautiful. A surfacing story unlike anything I've read. I need two copies of this book. One to keep on my shelf, and a sacrificial one so I can cut out paragraphs and frame them.' Tim Minchin'A brilliant tragicomic howl to the moon of loneliness in our modern time. Toltz's humour and intelligence swim from the slapstick shallows to the philosophic depths with a mastery of language and storytelling to be treasured. Oh to get to read it for the first time all over again!' Andrew Sean Greer'Evelyn Waugh at his most playful, Saul Bellow at his most propulsive, Kingsley Amis at his funniest - these could all be forebears of the fabulously gifted Steve Toltz. But he is also a true original, giving rise perhaps to a new adjective, Toltzian. This new book burns through the aether, it goes its own unique way, it conflagrates and triumphs.' Sebastian Barry'A wildly imaginative, deeply hilarious and surprisingly tender story of the paths life takes when you don't take a life path. Morbid, insane, brilliant and packed with the kind of darkly funny philosophical insights that make sense of an increasingly terrifying, tech-dominated world.' Lexi Frieman, author of The Book of AynABOUT THE AUTHORSteve Toltz was born in Sydney, Australia in 1972. His first novel, A Fraction of the Whole, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. His second novel, Quicksand, won the 2017 Russell Prize for Humour.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/crows-nest/steve-toltz-at-the-constant-reader/100001984591102411
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com.au%2Fe%2Fsteve-toltz-at-the-constant-reader-tickets-1984591102411
- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10, max: 34.99, currency: AUD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Crows Nest
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Constant Reader Bookshop
- **lat**: -33.8269218
- **long**: 151.2009604
- **full address**: Constant Reader Bookshop, 27 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest, Australia

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Constant Reader  Kids (https://allevents.in/org/constant-reader-kids/23675465)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (+10:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Constant Reader Bookshop, 27 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest, Australia
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 10 up to 34.99 AUD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Constant Reader  Kids
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Steve Toltz at the Constant Reader! ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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