The Thursday Book Club
Description
Richard Osman's series of novels follows the residents of a retirement centre as they solve cold case murders (and tangle with current-day villains). These books have achieved remarkable success. Do their representations of aging ring true? Do the characters spark recognition, offer new ways to consider one’s own aging, or is something else going on? We will meet in a book club environment to talk through the first novel, The Thursday Murder Club (2020), and our own responses to that story.
Author, academic and critic Jen Webb will facilitate the conversation, with novelist/academic Tony Eaton, poet/editor Anita Patel, and members of the audience.
Lineup
Jen Webb
Jen is Professor Emerita of Creative Practice at University of Canberra. She is co-editor of the literary journal Meniscus and the scholarly journal Axon: Creative Explorations, and her most recent poetry collections are Flight Mode (with Shé Hawke, 2020), and The Daily News (2024).
Anita Patel
Anita Patel is a Canberra writer who was born in Singapore. Her two collections of poetry are: Petals Fall (Recent Work Press, 2022) and A Common Garment (Recent Work Press, 2019). She has collaborated with artist, Annie Franklin to produce three books: Heart Stitched (2019), Grief and Beauty (2022) and Familiar Fragments (2025).
Tony Eaton
Anthony is a novelist and Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Canberra. He has published eleven novels, twice won the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award for young adult fiction, and twice been awarded the Honour Book prize in the Children’s Book Council of Australia annual Book of the Year awards.
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