Author Talk with Sally Piper + Dinner at North Stores in Mt Tamborine

Come along to The Back Room at North Stores in North Tamborine and join us for an evening of conversation as Sally Piper discusses her new novel Bone Memories with Janene Gardner from Under the Greenwood Tree bookstore. Ticket includes a glass of wine and cheese board.

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

For those who would like to stay on for dinner after the talk, Sally will be joining guests at 6:30PM for a special 2-course dinner at Picnic Real Food Bar.

About Sally

Sally Piper’s debut novel Grace’s Table was shortlisted for a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and she was awarded a Varuna Publishing Fellowship for her manuscript. Her second novel The Geography of Friendship was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award and will be developed into a limited TV series by Aquarius Films and Dollhouse Pictures. She has had short fiction and non-fiction published in various online and print publications in Australia and the UK, including Griffith Review, The Saturday Paper, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Weekend Australian. Bone Memories is her third novel.

About the book

Even though sixteen years have passed, Billie will never recover from the murder of her daughter, Jess, and clings to her memory — and the site of her death — like a life raft. Daniel, who was a toddler when his mother was killed, can recall little of what happened but knows if he’s to have any chance of a better future he needs to move on from that defining event – if only his grandmother would let him. Meanwhile Daniel’s stepmother, Carla, also feels trapped by Jess’s legacy but has a plan that she believes will help everyone to escape from the long shadow of the past.

Deeply human, evocative and beautifully written, Bone Memories explores themes of human connection and the memorialisation of place.

Praise for Bone Memories

'...a poised, perceptive and exquisitely written meditation on grief and the emotional legacy of violence.' The Sydney Morning Herald

'Piper's writing goes straight to the heart of things; how we grieve, love, survive and remember.' Holly Ringland

'A tender wise and forensic examination of our relationship with the natural world. And an elegy to its loss.' Kristina Olsson

'Piper is such a vivid and acute observer of people and place that Bone Memories seems both perfect and, when it ends, a personal loss. I loved it.' Lucy Treloar

'Tense and compelling, Piper has written a page-turner that is an elegant meditation on memory, grief and the ground we tread.' Kate Mildenhall

About the venue

North Stores is an environmentally sustainable and architecturally designed food, art and nature precinct in the heart of Tamborine Mountain, high in the Gold Coast hinterland.

Picnic Real Food Bar, located in the grounds of North Stores, offers delicious food that favours local and seasonal produce. They serve natural Australian wine, craft beer, mountain cider, organic kombucha and micro roastery Reuben Hills coffee.