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9 Oct

Book Launch: A Midsummer Party, by Antoni Jach

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Celebrate the launch of A Midsummer Party by Antoni Jach, in conversation with the novelist Toni Jordan.

In A Midsummer Party, cosmopolitan Rome is entwined with Melbourne, as the novel flashes backwards and forwards between a party in Rome, a train trip to Milan, and memories of Melbourne, Panton Hill and Far North Queensland. Embedded in the book are 107 photographs that bring to life the magical and mysterious world of the novel.

Antoni Jach is a novelist, painter and playwright. His previous novels are Travelling Companions, Napoleon’s Double, The Layers of the City and The Weekly Card Game. He writes about travel, history, art, friendship and storytelling.

Toni Jordan is the award-winning author of eight novels, including the international best-seller Addition. Her latest novel, Tenderfoot, is about growing up in the 1970s.

Presented by CO.AS.IT. and Transit Lounge.

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Fri 9 Oct
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Carlton 3053

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The Next Big Thing: Hot Desk 2026 Edition #2

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The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

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