Author talk: Toni Jordan, 9 September | Event in Victoria Point | AllEvents

Author talk: Toni Jordan

Libraries - Redland City Council

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Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 am

Victoria Point, Library

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Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 am (AEST)

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7-13 Bunker Rd, Victoria Point QLD 4165, Australia, Victoria Point

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Author talk: Toni Jordan
Molecular biologist turned award-winning author, Toni Jordan is the author of the international bestseller 'Addition', which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and has been adapted into a feature film set to be in cinemas in 2025. Join her at our Victoria Point Library to hear all about her powerful new novel 'Tenderfoot'.

FREE EVENT. BOOKINGS MUST BE MADE VIA THE LIBRARIES WEBSITE (select the tickets link above to proceed to the libraries website)

About the book:
'Tenderfoot' is an exhilarating novel about coming of age in 1970s Australia.

Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer, with dogs of her very own.

But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complicated than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about – her family, her friends, the dogs – it's up to Andie to reclaim her future. She will need all her wits to survive this new reality of secrets and half-truths, addictions and crime. With luminous, aching prose, Tenderfoot will move you like no other story this year.

About the author:
Toni Jordan has worked as a molecular biologist, quality control chemist, TAB operator and door-to-door aluminium siding salesperson. She is the author of the international bestseller 'Addition', which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and has been adapted into a feature film, in cinemas in 2025. Her novel 'Nine Days' was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards and was named in Kirkus Review's top 10 Historical Novels of 2013; Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award; and her two Schnabel family novels, 'Dinner with the Schnabels' and 'Prettier if She Smiled More', were critically acclaimed. Toni has been published widely in newspapers and magazines. She holds a Bachelor of Science in physiology and a PhD in Creative Arts and lives in Melbourne. Tenderfoot is her eighth novel.


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Author talk: Toni Jordan, 9 September | Event in Victoria Point | AllEvents
Author talk: Toni Jordan
Tue, 09 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 am