Wakefield Press

15/02/2025

Thanks, you marvellous souls at Dillons Norwood Bookshop!

14/02/2025

Join us for the first IAF Literary Dinner of 2025 next week! Guest speaker John West-Sooby will discuss What Have the French Ever Done For Us?, a collection of essays that examine French influences and contributions to Australian life and culture.

Event info:
> Tuesday 18 February
> 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm
> Osmond Terrace Function Centre - The Norwood Hotel

Tickets are $40 for IAF members, and $45 for non-members. Tickets available through our website.

12/02/2025

Gee, Honey Possum, no need to get all dramatic. The people cannot come if you haven't given them the details to book yet!

Mount Gambier Library | Saturday March 15 --> https://mountgambier-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_8d6b677ba5d141a4900f0389301da102

West Torrens Library | Saturday March 22 --> https://www.westtorrens.sa.gov.au/Events-directory/Honey-Possums-Bush-Cafe-book-launch

Would love to see you there!

12/02/2025

ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK SPOTLIGHT––

Wakefield author Stephen Orr discusses the complex interconnections of family and community, memory and place, commitment and contribution in 2024 title Shining Like the Sun with Walter Marsh.

Event info:
* Wed 05 Mar
* 1:15pm
* , Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, North Stage

09/02/2025

Click the pic for the latest Wakefield Weekly!

A roundup of the past week at Wakefield Press, including events, blog updates, news and reviews.

07/02/2025

Adelaide Modernism: 101 houses
by Tim Reeves

This book explores 101 Adelaide modernist houses over 35 years from 1939 to 1974, many of them outstanding examples of the style. Featuring over 50 suburbs and over 70 architects - with nearly half their own home - designs comprise stunning bespoke houses but also blocks of flats as well as public and project housing, and competition entries.

Available now!

05/02/2025

ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK SPOTLIGHT––

Can a literary journal help us understand or even change our reality? Editor of new Tarntanya-based journal Splinter, Farrin Foster, and issue one writers Hossein Asgari, Karen Wyld and Anthony Nocera, discuss the evolving purpose of literary journals and how it dovetails with their work in Splinter.

Event info:

* Wed 05 Mar
* 9:30am
* , Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, North Stage

02/02/2025

Thanks for your interest in local publishers, Walter Marsh and InReview!

A wave of high-profile acquisitions stokes uncertainty about the future of Australian books and South Australian indie publishers.

31/01/2025

HOT OFF THE PRESS –

Adelaide Modernism: 101 houses

By Tim Reeves

Modernism was a movement that swept the world and dramatically impacted Australia’s built environment in the process.

This book explores 101 Adelaide modernist houses over 35 years from 1939-74, many of them outstanding examples of the style. Featuring over 50 suburbs and over 70 architects - with nearly half their own home - designs comprise stunning bespoke houses but also blocks of flats as well as public and project housing, and competition entries.

With more than 300 floor plans and images, this richly illustrated book from an award-winning author is a must-read for all devotees of modernist architecture.

30/01/2025

ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK SPOTLIGHT––
Wakefield author Natalie Harkin speaks with Jackie Huggins and Jo Case about her forthcoming title Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign-Tea, a history of Aboriginal domestic service and unwaged labour in South Australia that is imbued with the concept of archival justice.

Event info:
* Mon 03 Mar
* 1:15pm
* , Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, North Stage

Keep your eyes peeled for Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign-Tea on our socials and website in the coming weeks.

24/01/2025

HOT OFF THE PRESS –

First Breath / Last Breath

By Gabriella Bisetto, Grace Cochrane, Stephen Atkinson, Shaw Hendry.

South Australian glass artist Gabriella Bisetto has always had an abiding interest in the inconceivable complexities of the human body. Growing up on a farm where the circle of life and death played out naturally, Bisetto developed an inordinate appreciation for the physicality and vigour of ‘being’ that has remained with her throughout her life.

Drawing from the ancient Roman adoption of the term ‘memento mori’ (‘remember that you must die’), the works in this book reference and acknowledge the changing boundaries of our bodies as we enter new phases of our lives.

Available now.

23/01/2025

Did you love GUS AND THE MISSING BOY by as much as we did? Perhaps you’d consider including this cracking book on your top ten list in the Top 101 reading list - we know we will! Scroll to the second slide for tips to make voting even easier.

22/01/2025

‘Somebody has to be Peter Goers’

Join in hosting Peter Goers as he shares an overview of his career to date, unpacks his book ‘In the Air of an Afternoon Almost Past’ and holds a live Q&A tomorrow evening.

Details
- Thu 23 Jan
- 6 pm – 7 pm
- Victor Harbor Library, 1 Bay Road, Victor Harbor SA

20/01/2025

At #12 QWS with Troy Hunter & RWR McDonald on Gus and the Missing Boy.

‘ I've got this quite complex family background. I have thought about the nature of family, of nature versus nurture, and those nuances around being adopted, and also how parents aren't perfect.
When you're looking at a crime novel that's talking about a kid being kidnapped, you can see the connection. I also think maybe growing up gay in the country had its own challenges, and times are pretty different now, thank God. But I think a lot of those teenage feelings about being gay and coming out, everything like that, remain. There's an element of that in the writing.’

The BEST OF SERIES is curated from Soundcloud, these episodes had to be released in 2024 and have had the most downloads. This episode was originally uploaded on 10 April 2024. This is 12/30 of the BEST OF SERIES ⭐️⭐️⭐️

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/words-and-nerds-authors-books-and-literature/id1303440513?i=1000684230327

20/01/2025

📚✨ Join us for a fascinating look into South Australian history!

Local author and historian John Davis shares the riveting story of Harry Hodgetts, Adelaide's former leading stockbroker, in his book: Harry Hodgetts – The Flawed Broker Behind Donald Bradman’s Move to Adelaide.

🌟 Discover the rise and fall of Hodgetts, from his influential role in Adelaide’s stock market and sports scene to his scandalous conviction in 1945. Learn how this complex figure shaped South Australia’s history—and even impacted the great Don Bradman’s career.

📅 When: Tuesday, 20 February | 2 – 3 PM
📍 Where: Burnside Library
☕ Tea and coffee provided
🎟 Bookings essential – link in bio to book

📚 Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

Don’t miss this captivating historical talk!

17/01/2025

We’ve just received a proof of Gina Inverarity’s ‘Snow in the Sky’, due to venture out of the cot and into the schools’ marketplace in a couple of months’ time. It’s a second book from Gina Inverarity featuring the characters – and her distinctive, partly created language – we encountered in her successful 2020 prequel Snow (still available in store and online).

Read our latest newsletter to find out more ✨