Alyx Gorman: An Evening with the Author

Join Alyx Gorman, in conversation, to celebrate the release of her new book All Women Want, in-store at Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore.

WHEN: Thursday, 27th of March 2025, at Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore. Please arrive at 6:45pm for a prompt 7pm start.

TICKETS: 

1 x Admission: $25.00 (excluding external fees), includes admission for one, a glass of wine and nibbles upon arrival.

1 x Admission + 1 x Book Tickets: $56.00 (excluding external fees), includes admission for one, a copy of All Women Want (RRP: $36.00), a glass of wine and nibbles upon arrival.

The truth about why straight women aren't satisfied in the bedroom – and what to do about it.

About All Women Want:

Pleasure should be a simple thing, but straight women are at the statistical bottom of the pile when it comes to finding a happy ending. There's a name for this phenomenon: it's called the pleasure gap. And when tracked against other gains in women's freedom, like pay or education, it is still alarmingly wide.

All Women Want is about that gap, the methods women use to try to bridge it (spoiler: they don't always want to do it solo), and why physical pleasure might be a final frontier for gender equality.

Written with candour, wit, and insights from over 130 interviews and 'field reports', Alyx Gorman's probing investigation shows sex as it really is, not as we think it should be. Free from the moralising, marketing and misinformation women are fed, it's a groundbreaking book that will educate, illuminate and, above all, satisfy.

'Alyx Gorman's state of the union on female pleasure is also an impassioned and galvanising rally-cry against mediocre sex. Riveting, compassionate, brilliantly researched and honkingly funny, reading this will feel like the best late-night conversation you can have with a smart and sex-positive friend. I suspect women will feel empowered and consoled; men will feel cared-for and educated. In other words, a win-win, as every sexual exchange should be' - Benjamin Law

About the Author:

Alyx Gorman is an editor and journalist. She has worked in digital and print lifestyle media for 15 years in Sydney, Melbourne, New York and London.

Alyx is currently the Lifestyle Editor of Guardian Australia and has been writing on the topics of sex, relationships and dating her entire career. She is also the co-author of a weekly pop culture newsletter, Saved for Later. Alyx is a frequent guest across the ABC's radio network, and has worked as a moderator and panelist for Sydney Writers' Festival, Vivid Ideas, the Powerhouse, design conference Semi-Permanent and more.

Alyx holds a bachelor of social sciences from the University of Sydney, where she majored in Political Economy. She won the university's John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for Economics in 2008.

About Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore

Rated as one of the top 10 bookstores in the world by National Geographic, Gertrude & Alice Cafe Bookstore is an oasis for writers, readers, and coffee lovers. Books overflow from the shelves of their store, featuring a mix of new, second-hand, antiquarian and rare books. Stay a while & enjoy some homemade chai, and amazing coffee, and unearth a book treasure or two. Read more about the bookstore's story here, and about the real Gertrude & Alice here.

'All Women Want is a pleasurable guide to navigating pleasure industries: this book tells you how' - Dr Hilary Caldwell