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Dinner with Bonnie Garmus: Lessons in Chemistry

Best-selling author Bonnie Garmus unpacks her captivating debut novel, <em>Lessons in Chemistry</em>, over an intimate two-course dinner and drinks at the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins.
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Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Wednesday 22 May
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Location

Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, West Tower Suite

Sofitel Melbourne on Collins (West Tower Suite), 25 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000

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Accessibility

Accessible toilets available

Auslan interpreting available by-request

Wheelchair accessible

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Additional Notes

The bookseller for this event is Neighbourhood Books.  
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About the Event

At this exclusive dinner event, acclaimed novelist Bonnie Garmus will be in conversation with broadcaster and Lessons in Chemistry superfan Virginia Trioli. Together, they will take audiences behind the scenes of this breakthrough novel, as they discuss how Lessons in Chemistry examines the gender pay gap, misogyny in the workplace and women’s rights. Hear from a literary great while enjoying stunning views of Melbourne’s city skyline and a delicious two-course dinner with wine, beer and soft drinks included. Bonnie Garmus’s debut novel transports readers to 1960s California. Elizabeth Zott – single mother and brilliant chemist – unexpectedly finds herself hosting a television cooking show, and changes hearts and minds in the process. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist. Gather your book club for this unique opportunity to hear from one of the most extraordinary literary success stories of recent years.   Supported by the Sofitel Melbourne on Collins

Featuring

Bonnie Garmus

Bonnie Garmus is the author of Lessons in Chemistry, a number-one global bestseller and winner of several national and international awards, including Barnes & Noble’s Book of the Year, Hay Festival’s Book of the Year, Goodreads Choice Award Debut of the Year, British Book Awards Author of the Year, Waterstones Author of the Year, Books are My Bag Author of the Year Award and Readers’ Choice Award, Germany and Australia’s Booksellers Book of the Year, Australia’s International Book of the Year, and many more. It was also selected by Queen Camilla for the Queen’s Reading Room and has been on the New York Times, Sunday Times and Der Spiegel bestseller lists for nearly two years. Currently published in forty-two territories, it has sold almost seven million copies.
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Virginia Trioli

Two-time Walkley Award winner, Virginia Trioli has an established reputation as a radio host, television presenter, news reporter, features writer and columnist. She currently anchors ABC News Breakfast on ABC 1 and ABC News 24. Virginia is an honours graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and in 1996 published Generation F, her celebrated response to Helen Garner’s The First Stone. In 1995 she won Australian journalism’s highest honour, the Walkley Award, for her business reporting and in 2001 Virginia won a second Walkley for her landmark interview with the former defence minister, Peter Reith, over the notorious Children Overboard issue. In 1999 she won the Melbourne Press Club’s Best Columnist award, The Quill. In 2006 she won Broadcaster of the Year at the ABC Local Radio Awards. Virginia has held senior positions at the Age newspaper and the Bulletin magazine For eight years she hosted the Drive program on 774 ABC Melbourne, and the Morning program on 702 ABC Sydney. She has been the host of ABC TV’s premiere news and current affairs program, Lateline, and a presenter on ABC TV’s Sunday Arts.
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