Tom Keneally is launching my new novel tonight

Tom Keneally is launching my new novel this evening and I'm so excited about it! Tom has long been one of my writing heroes and it's such an honour to have him launch The Watchful Wife. Hope you can come - email me for the details.

This means that Thursday Book Club won't be on tonight. For those of you who can't make the book launch, the speeches will be recorded and published on my website. My thanks to Orange (Shiang-Yuan) Kao and Hazel Hogarth for making this possible.

I've also got a number of events coming up over the next week.  On Saturday afternoon, I'll be at Gordon Library, on Tuesday evening at Leichhardt Library, on Wednesday evening at Margaret Martin Library in Randwick and on Thursday evening I'll be at Woollahra Library.  It would be lovely to have your company!

Thanks so much for taking the time to vote in the Better Reading Top 50 Kids' Books The fifty books chosen will be stocked in Big W for the next year. This gives books like my novel Running with Ivan a new lease of life and the chance to find new readers. Voting closes on Sunday. If you are yet to vote, you can do it here. I really appreciate your support.

Many of you will know Jacinta Parsons as the host of Afternoons on ABC Melbourne.  I've just read her book A Question of Age, which came out late last year.  It's the most thoughtful, intimate and beautifully written work on women, ageing and those two selves; the inside self and the outside self. I found it fascinating - let me know what you think.