Fri 9 Oct · 6:30pm
CO.AS.IT. · Carlton
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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.
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When is Book Launch: A Midsummer Party, by Antoni Jach?
Fri 9 Oct 2026, 6:30pm.
Where is it?
CO.AS.IT., Carlton, VIC.
How much is it?
It is free.
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