WEDNESDAY 24th JULY 2024 | INSTORE EVENT
6.00pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Join us for the launch of Blokeland by John Toohey
ABOUT THE BOOK
A boy faces the randomness of life, a soldier makes a difficult choice, a migrant seeks new chances, an academic loses something precious, an ageing monk can’t escape his past. These are some of the stories of the boys and men of Blokeland. From their first decade to their eighties, these males chart passages through this land of curiosity and hope and loss and sometimes death. Blokeland needs no passport. Vaccination is unnecessary. You map your journey in your mind.
At his first offence hearing, the Childrens’ Court magistrate gave him a pep talk and a warning. Staffy told his foster mother he’d been ‘abolished and discharged’. The social worker later explained the legal difference between ‘admonition’ and ‘abolition’. He’d not be executed … well, not yet. - A Bloody Good Job.
A monastery can spurn you like a heretic. It can scrub you from its story and cut you from its body of believers. It can be unforgiving. A monastery seeks no self-reflection. It demands no soul-searching. A monastery is right and infallible. - Into the Breeze.
Ian winced at the trigger words, ‘structure’, ‘loads’ and ‘plans’ and especially at the phrase, ‘research opportunities’. He knew the university code words for work-harder-for-less and understood the three Rs of chaos – reorganisation, relocation and redundancies. – Parking Problems
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Toohey grew up in West End, Brisbane in the 1950s and 60s, where several of his stories are set. He began writing fiction after an academic career at universities in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne where his last appointment was Professor of Business Psychology and Dean of the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University. His stories are influenced by an Irish Lebanese upbringing and experiences in boarding schools, monasteries, universities, and various places where uniforms are worn.
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