As part of the Positive Ageing Festival, we’re delighted to bring you not one, but two authors to the Traralgon Library!

Listen to best-selling authors Lisa Ireland (The Studio Girls, The One and Only Dolly Jamieson) and Kylie Ladd (I’ll Leave you with This, The Way Back) as they talk about their novels, characters and writing practices.

Enjoy a delicious light lunch, join the conversation, buy their books and get them signed.

About Lisa

Lisa Ireland is an Australian author and writing mentor. She writes across several genres including modern historical fiction, contemporary fiction and rural romance. Her novels include The One and Only Dolly Jamieson, The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan, The Shape of Us, and the Australian bestseller, Feels Like Home. Her eighth novel, The Studio Girls, was released in April 2024. Lisa lives in a tiny town in Gippsland, Victoria. When she’s not writing, she can be found drinking copious amounts of coffee at her local coffee shop, walking her boxer, Lulu, or on the couch binge watching her favourite character-driven TV shows.

Website: https://www.lisairelandbooks.com/

About Kylie

Kylie Ladd is a novelist, psychologist and freelance writer. Her novels have been published in Australia and overseas, and The Way Back, has been optioned for film. She has also co-edited and co-authored two non-fiction books, and her essays and articles have been published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin, O Magazine, Good Medicine, Kill Your Darlings and Reader’s Digest, amongst others. Kylie holds a PhD in neuropsychology and lives in Melbourne with her husband and two children.

Website: https://www.kylieladd.com.au/