# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Literary Salon: Laura McPhee-Browne and Maria Takolander
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join two acclaimed authors after hours at The Book Bird as they discuss their latest books, 'Worry Doll' and 'The End of Romance'About this Event***Visit The Book Bird on Thursday 3rd September, 6pm, to hear from two novelists about their new works: Laura McPhee-Browne on Worry Doll (Scribe) and Maria Takolander on The End of Romance (Text Publishing). Enjoy wine, nibbles, readings and conversation, plus 10% off any other purchases made on the night.Laura McPhee-Browne is a writer, social worker, and counsellor living in Melbourne on Wurundjeri land. Her short stories have been published widely in Australia. Her first two novels, Cherry Beach (2020) and Little Plum (2023), were published with Text Publishing to critical acclaim."Intense and uneasily claustrophobic … McPhee-Browne captures how a particular kind of sexual desire obliterates everything else extremely effectively, plunging the reader into Heloise’s increasingly unsettled — and unsettling — interior world." The Saturday Paper on Worry DollMaria Takolander is an award-winning Finnish-Australian fiction writer and poet. She is the inaugural winner of the Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley short-story prize, and her debut collection of short fiction, The Double (Text 2013), was a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s ‘Best New Writing Award’. Maria is also the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which, Trigger Warning (UQP 2021), won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for an Association for the Study of Australian Literature Gold Medal. As a public artist, her words can be found at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in Melbourne and in Geelong, where she lives with her husband and son."A tense, engrossing and deeply uncomfortable novel that speaks in urgent tones to our complacent moment."The Guardian onThe End of Romance  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/a77314f0-a669-11f1-8990-5d04d231a2dd-rimg-w1200-h600-dce8a8e8-gmir.jpg
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/geelong-west/literary-salon-laura-mcphee-browne-and-maria-takolander/100001995292785433
- **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art
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## Ticket Details

- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 17.19, max: 17.19, currency: AUD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Geelong West
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: The Book Bird
- **lat**: -38.1384145
- **long**: 144.34853339999995
- **full address**: The Book Bird, 1/111 Pakington Street, Geelong West, Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Literary Salon: Laura McPhee-Browne and Maria Takolander being held?
  - **A:** Literary Salon: Laura McPhee-Browne and Maria Takolander takes place on Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 08:00 pm at The Book Bird, 1/111 Pakington Street, Geelong West, Australia.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Literary Salon: Laura McPhee-Browne and Maria Takolander?
  - **A:** Literary Salon: Laura McPhee-Browne and Maria Takolander is organized by The Book Bird.

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