Bookshop Events
teachers afternoon
SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH
LAST DATE FOR THE YEAR - 8 NOVEMBER 2022
TIME: 3.45PM - 5PM
Calling all teachers and educators. You are invited to My Little Bookshop for coffee/tea, cake, chat and a look at some of the great range of educational books we have on offer. Here at MLB we thrive on what's different.
Showcasing our range of educational, diverse and inclusive books from Pre-Primary to Young Adult.
Some of our books are written by our very talented local authors and on occasion will be here to talk about their book, share their experience and background of the stories.
We would love to see you here, just send an email or phone the shop on 9524 6438 to book your spot. Just for catering purposes.
LAST DATE FOR THE YEAR - 8 NOVEMBER 2022
TIME: 3.45PM - 5PM
Calling all teachers and educators. You are invited to My Little Bookshop for coffee/tea, cake, chat and a look at some of the great range of educational books we have on offer. Here at MLB we thrive on what's different.
Showcasing our range of educational, diverse and inclusive books from Pre-Primary to Young Adult.
Some of our books are written by our very talented local authors and on occasion will be here to talk about their book, share their experience and background of the stories.
We would love to see you here, just send an email or phone the shop on 9524 6438 to book your spot. Just for catering purposes.
in conversation with rebecca raisin friday 28 october 6.30pm
The wonderful Rebecca Raisin will be at My Little Bookshop to discuss her latest book, Elodie’s Library of Second Chances.
A local Perth author who has many books published by Harper Collins.
Books are available to purchase at the event.
Please join us for conversation, book signings, Q&A, tips on writing and a glass of wine.
Tickets only $15 includes glass wine
ABOUT THE BOOK:
An uplifting story about fresh starts, new beginnings and the power of stories, from the bestselling author of Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop!
When Elodie applies for the job of librarian in peaceful Willow Grove, she's looking forward to a new start. As the daughter of a media empire, her every move has been watched for years, and she longs to work with the thing she loves most: books.
It's a chance to make a real difference too, because she soon realises that there are other people in Willow Grove who might need a fresh start - like the homeless man everyone walks past without seeing, or the divorcée who can't seem to escape her former husband's misdeeds.
Together with local journalist Finn, Elodie decides these people have stories that need sharing. What if instead of borrowing books readers could 'borrow' a person, and hear the life stories of those they've overlooked?
But Elodie isn't quite sharing her whole story either. As the story of the library's new success grows, will her own secret be revealed?
A local Perth author who has many books published by Harper Collins.
Books are available to purchase at the event.
Please join us for conversation, book signings, Q&A, tips on writing and a glass of wine.
Tickets only $15 includes glass wine
ABOUT THE BOOK:
An uplifting story about fresh starts, new beginnings and the power of stories, from the bestselling author of Rosie's Travelling Tea Shop!
When Elodie applies for the job of librarian in peaceful Willow Grove, she's looking forward to a new start. As the daughter of a media empire, her every move has been watched for years, and she longs to work with the thing she loves most: books.
It's a chance to make a real difference too, because she soon realises that there are other people in Willow Grove who might need a fresh start - like the homeless man everyone walks past without seeing, or the divorcée who can't seem to escape her former husband's misdeeds.
Together with local journalist Finn, Elodie decides these people have stories that need sharing. What if instead of borrowing books readers could 'borrow' a person, and hear the life stories of those they've overlooked?
But Elodie isn't quite sharing her whole story either. As the story of the library's new success grows, will her own secret be revealed?
board games night saturday 29 october 6.30pm
Board Games Night - 29 October at 6.30pm at the bookshop. Come join us for a fun fab evening of board games. Games include Yahtzee, Cards against Humanity, Movie Trivia, Trivial Pursuit and more. As we are playing for sheep stations *eye roll* prizes of packets of Smarties will be gloriously and with full pomp and ceremony be awarded to the winner on each table. BYOD. Snacks provided Feel free to your own boardgames if you wish. Only $10 a ticket. BUY TICKETS HERE |
ART & WINE EXHIBITION FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER 6PM
Join us for a wonderful evening at the bookshop showcasing our local regions talent.
Local producer and distributor St Johns Wines will have wine sampling, including their marvellous Grenache, Rose, cab savs, Shiraz and more.
As you enjoy the local wine, be inspired by two of our very own local artists.
Kreations by Kerry is a local artist. Kerry Davies who's love for fabric has bloomed into mixed media art works.
Using fabrics to create texture and detail, combined with acrylic paints leaves you wondering where the fabric ended and the painting started.
Kerry's style is colourful and fun. Her artworks have a quality about them that radiates joy.
Nicole Steenhof is an oil painter, focusing on life scenes and landscapes. Her paintings are a contemplation on how our humanity impacts the way we engage with nature.
The minimalist scenes are painted with a generous sense of space and moody light. She is a Western Australian artist, currently living in Shoalwater with her young family.
All artwork will be available to buy.
ONLY $5 A TICKET BUY HERE
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR CATERING PURPOSES.
Local producer and distributor St Johns Wines will have wine sampling, including their marvellous Grenache, Rose, cab savs, Shiraz and more.
As you enjoy the local wine, be inspired by two of our very own local artists.
Kreations by Kerry is a local artist. Kerry Davies who's love for fabric has bloomed into mixed media art works.
Using fabrics to create texture and detail, combined with acrylic paints leaves you wondering where the fabric ended and the painting started.
Kerry's style is colourful and fun. Her artworks have a quality about them that radiates joy.
Nicole Steenhof is an oil painter, focusing on life scenes and landscapes. Her paintings are a contemplation on how our humanity impacts the way we engage with nature.
The minimalist scenes are painted with a generous sense of space and moody light. She is a Western Australian artist, currently living in Shoalwater with her young family.
All artwork will be available to buy.
ONLY $5 A TICKET BUY HERE
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR CATERING PURPOSES.
an intimate evening of jazz music with libby hammer saturday 19 november 7pm
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A beautiful sultry evening event, not to be missed.
Libby Hammer has been performing professionally since she was a child, and without giving away her very youthful age, that’s over forty years of performance experience. She is best-known to Perth audiences as a jazz singer - one of Perth’s finest - and those who have followed her career will know that she is also a composer, a bandleader and an in-demand vocal coach. Only stalker-type fans will know that she is also a stilt-walker and ukulele-playing novelty costume performer.
Tonight, Libby performs in solo mode, and will share renditions of a variety of repertoire, from her favourite childhood songs, to songs she has written herself and of course, the jazz music that has made up much of her career so far. Libby will also share a few stories from her journey so far - sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and hopefully always relatable. Come and join us for a unique and exclusive concert-slash-chitchat in this intimate setting.
Wine and Snacks included.
BUY TICKETS HERE FOR ONLY $50
Libby Hammer has been performing professionally since she was a child, and without giving away her very youthful age, that’s over forty years of performance experience. She is best-known to Perth audiences as a jazz singer - one of Perth’s finest - and those who have followed her career will know that she is also a composer, a bandleader and an in-demand vocal coach. Only stalker-type fans will know that she is also a stilt-walker and ukulele-playing novelty costume performer.
Tonight, Libby performs in solo mode, and will share renditions of a variety of repertoire, from her favourite childhood songs, to songs she has written herself and of course, the jazz music that has made up much of her career so far. Libby will also share a few stories from her journey so far - sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, and hopefully always relatable. Come and join us for a unique and exclusive concert-slash-chitchat in this intimate setting.
Wine and Snacks included.
BUY TICKETS HERE FOR ONLY $50
in conversation with Rachael johns wednesday 23 november 6pm
HEADS UP RACHAEL JOHNS FANS!!
Rachael will be here at the bookshop to discuss her latest novel, The Work Wives. Interviewed by the amazing Monique Mulligan, its sure to be an unmissable evening. A Q&A will be held after the conversation.
Signed copies will be available on the night.
In honour of Rachaels obsession with Diet Coke, each guest will be given a can of Diet Coke on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOK - For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case of opposites attract. They are each other's lifelines as they navigate office politics and jobs that pay the bills but don't inspire them.
Outside work, they are also friends, but where Quinn is addicted to dating apps and desperate to find love, Deb has sworn off men. Although Deb is not close to her own mother, her teenage daughter is her life and there's nothing she wouldn't do to protect her. But Ramona has other ideas and is beginning to push boundaries.
Life becomes even more complicated by the arrival of a new man at the office. One woman is attracted to him, while the other hoped she'd never meet him again.
But when Deb, Quinn and Ramona are forced to choose between friends, love and family, the ramifications run deeper than they could ever have expected.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Rachael Johns is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a Diet Coke addict, a cat lover and chronic arachnophobe. She rarely sleeps and never irons. She is also the bestselling, ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls and a number of other romance and women’s fiction books, including her recent bestseller, Something to Talk About. Rachael is currently Australia’s leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’.
Rachael has finaled in a number of competitions, including the Australian Romance Readers Awards. Jilted (her first rural romance) won Favourite Australian Contemporary Romance in 2012, and The Patterson Girls won the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award and also the 2015 Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction. She continually places in Booktopia’s Top 50 Aussie Authors poll.
Rachael lives in the Swan Valley with her hyperactive husband, three mostly-gorgeous heroes-in-training, two ravenous cats, a cantankerous bird and a very badly-behaved dog.
TICKETS ONLY $15 AND INCLUDE A GLASS OF WINE
BUY TICKETS HERE
Rachael will be here at the bookshop to discuss her latest novel, The Work Wives. Interviewed by the amazing Monique Mulligan, its sure to be an unmissable evening. A Q&A will be held after the conversation.
Signed copies will be available on the night.
In honour of Rachaels obsession with Diet Coke, each guest will be given a can of Diet Coke on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOK - For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case of opposites attract. They are each other's lifelines as they navigate office politics and jobs that pay the bills but don't inspire them.
Outside work, they are also friends, but where Quinn is addicted to dating apps and desperate to find love, Deb has sworn off men. Although Deb is not close to her own mother, her teenage daughter is her life and there's nothing she wouldn't do to protect her. But Ramona has other ideas and is beginning to push boundaries.
Life becomes even more complicated by the arrival of a new man at the office. One woman is attracted to him, while the other hoped she'd never meet him again.
But when Deb, Quinn and Ramona are forced to choose between friends, love and family, the ramifications run deeper than they could ever have expected.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Rachael Johns is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a Diet Coke addict, a cat lover and chronic arachnophobe. She rarely sleeps and never irons. She is also the bestselling, ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls and a number of other romance and women’s fiction books, including her recent bestseller, Something to Talk About. Rachael is currently Australia’s leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’.
Rachael has finaled in a number of competitions, including the Australian Romance Readers Awards. Jilted (her first rural romance) won Favourite Australian Contemporary Romance in 2012, and The Patterson Girls won the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award and also the 2015 Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction. She continually places in Booktopia’s Top 50 Aussie Authors poll.
Rachael lives in the Swan Valley with her hyperactive husband, three mostly-gorgeous heroes-in-training, two ravenous cats, a cantankerous bird and a very badly-behaved dog.
TICKETS ONLY $15 AND INCLUDE A GLASS OF WINE
BUY TICKETS HERE
BOOK LAUNCH - THE WORDS THE CATERPILLAR ATE WITH BELLE LOCKERBY-thursday 24 november 6.30pm
We are thrilled to be able to host the Book Launch of Belle Lockerbys latest book, The Words the Caterpillar Ate.
Come join us for this special event and listen to Belle's wonderful words of wisdom from her latest book.
A Q&A will be after her interview and signed copies available on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Put yourself on a word diet
It's The Very Hungry Caterpillar with a personal development spin for women.
Belle breaks down why words are key to enabling rich and rewarding change in this book which seeks to give age-old dictionaries an opportunity for a makeover - starting with our internal ones.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR -
It’s been touted as “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” for perimenopause.
In Belle Lockerby’s new book, The Words The Caterpillar Ate, she provides practical tools to navigate “change” blended with her trademark warmth and wit to help women find their new edition of self for this hormonally humbling stage of life.
A TEDx speaker, change strategist & best selling author, Belle has locally helped over 1000 women redefine ways of working to launch & grow their business (some multi 7 figure) in a way that works for them, and now she’s tackling the next big impact for women - becoming “the hot chick” & what it means for who and how we show up in business and life.
Belle is prone to dropping f-bombs - both the faith and the fork kind, Belle brings her whole self to the table, not just the highlight reel.
TICKETS ONLY $15 BUY HERE
Includes a glass of wine and grazing platters.
Come join us for this special event and listen to Belle's wonderful words of wisdom from her latest book.
A Q&A will be after her interview and signed copies available on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOK - Put yourself on a word diet
It's The Very Hungry Caterpillar with a personal development spin for women.
Belle breaks down why words are key to enabling rich and rewarding change in this book which seeks to give age-old dictionaries an opportunity for a makeover - starting with our internal ones.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR -
It’s been touted as “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” for perimenopause.
In Belle Lockerby’s new book, The Words The Caterpillar Ate, she provides practical tools to navigate “change” blended with her trademark warmth and wit to help women find their new edition of self for this hormonally humbling stage of life.
A TEDx speaker, change strategist & best selling author, Belle has locally helped over 1000 women redefine ways of working to launch & grow their business (some multi 7 figure) in a way that works for them, and now she’s tackling the next big impact for women - becoming “the hot chick” & what it means for who and how we show up in business and life.
Belle is prone to dropping f-bombs - both the faith and the fork kind, Belle brings her whole self to the table, not just the highlight reel.
TICKETS ONLY $15 BUY HERE
Includes a glass of wine and grazing platters.