8.00, Thursday 9 December The Bookshop's CHRISTMAS BREAK-UP PARTY All welcome to our break-up party - volunteers, customers, supporters, inquisitive people, kids and pets The break-up will follow the talk at 7.00pm by DICK GROSS, mayor of Port Phillip, about his new book, THE GODLESS GOSPEL. Expect the unexpected! We've got some great new novels, non-fiction, cards, t-shirts, t-towels etc for Xmas pressies, and if you're not sure what to get, how about a book voucher ($10, $15, $20, $25 or $50) XXXXXX KEEP IN MIND THE FOLLOWING:- 4.00, Sunday 12 December - Exhibition opening PETER EWER's photographic exhibition THE NATURE OF PLASTIC (commission proceeds to the bookshop co-operative and Earthworker) 7.30 Monday 13 December ROD QUANTOK will read from DOUBLE DISILLUSION his totally irreverent new book - alight with revolutionary zeal, undiluted vitriol and outright silliness 6.00 Friday 17 December BOOK LAUNCH - JOHN TULLY's DEATH IS THE COOL NIGHT The book will be launched by Tony Dewberry. rsvp [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] They were schoolfriends in a small Bavarian town, but during the early 1930s their lives took on different paths. Death is the Cool Night traces the life of the main character Otto Mehring through the deep south of America and Australia. Family history, political turmoil, love and much else. LL.VL