Meet ‘The Beauty and the Ghost’, for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the unique and often intimate process of ghost writing.

Meet the faces behind 'The Beauty and the Ghost' as they join us in conversation at Broadbeach Library. Felicia Djamirze, the former Miss Australia, convicted drug trafficker and gangland girlfriend turned women’s justice advocate. Her searingly honest tale of an extraordinary life is the subject of a brand new book Accessory, written with seasoned journalist Erin O'Dwyer.

Behind every criminal man is a young, glamorous woman profiting from his crimes. Or, at least, so the media suggests. Entering this shadowy world, she became both a perpetrator and a victim, an accessory and a rebel. But eventually, the law would catch up with her in spectacular and violent ways - and it would make her rethink everything.

No. 1 bestselling author Michael Robotham returns with a nail-biting PC Phil McCarthy novel, and joins us live at the library!

As the daughter of a London crime boss, Police Constable Philomena McCarthy walks a thin blue line keeping the two sides of her complicated life apart.

On patrol one night she discovers a child in pyjamas, wandering alone. Taking Daisy home, Phil uncovers the aftermath of a deadly home invasion, as three miles away a prominent jeweller is found strapped to an explosive in his ransacked store. The crimes are linked, and all the evidence points to Phil’s father as the mastermind.

As Phil’s two worlds collide, she’s trapped in the middle of a vicious gang war that will threaten her career and everyone she loves. Who can she trust – the badge or her own blood?

Join us alongside our friends at Words on the Waves for their next Central Coast Reads event, this time featuring author Julie Janson.

Central Coast Reads is an annual coast-wide reading program where organisations, local libraries, book clubbers and individuals are all encouraged to read the one book to foster larger conversations about reading, important themes and to engage with others in the community.

Julie will be in conversation at Brentwood Village, Kincumber, and will discuss her novel Benevolence.

BOOK FACE Erina will have copies available to purchase at the event, which will feature a signing after the discussion.

This event is hosted by Words on the Waves and is free to attend. RSVPs are essential - to reserve your seat, please visit their website here.

Join us online via Zoom at 10am, Thursday 31st July as we discuss The Names by Florence Knapp.

Our book club is a free monthly event and all are welcome.

If you’d like to join in, send us an email at erina@bookfacestores.com.au for more details, or call the store on (02) 4365 5288.

Join us as Australian BookTok Star Stacey McEwan chats to fellow fantasy author Sarah A. Parker about her new slow burn romantasy novel.

Nina and Patrick are 12 years old when they’re whisked to the dazzling Belavere City to be tested for their magical abilities. Nina’s lifelong dream is to become an Artisan, a powerful elemental mage, while Patrick only wants to return to his family of Craftsmen.

Years later, their paths cross again, and despite the years, they haven’t forgotten each other and are forced to make decisions that will change the fate of the world.

Meet the bestselling author of 'Invisible Boys', as he joins us in person to talk about his new gritty and heartfelt queer coming-of-age story

Giacomo Brolo, aka Jack, is a mess, working in piecemeal construction and estranged from his family and friends. But when he returns to his hometown for a family wedding, his past soon catches up with him.

As he grapples with his deeply conservative family, the news that he conceived a son with his teenage girlfriend, and an old love who rejected him, Jack has to decide whether he can open himself up to the possibility of love, found family and connection.

Bestselling crime and thriller author Matt Rogers is joining us live at the library!

For ten years, Logan Booth served as a contract killer for the CIA, he just never knew it. Only in the twilight of his career does Logan learn how he’s been used for furthering government interests.

When one of Logan’s oldest friends, an investigative reporter, is brutally and inexplicably murdered, Logan goes to war with the dark and powerful forces at work behind the scenes in order to deliver justice.

Byron Bay author P.A. Thomas joins us to chat about The Sunbaker, his new beachside page-turner, the follow-up mystery to The Beacon.

When overworked forensic pathologist Nicola Fox arrives at her Brunswick Heads holiday house for a long-overdue break, she’s shocked to discover a sunbaker in her backyard who’s been dead for some time.

With rumours circling that the victim took some dark secrets to the grave that people were keen to bury, Nicola finds herself a suspect. She turns to Jack Harris, a local journalist at The Beacon, for help. But with threats escalating, will Jack uncover who really killed the sunbaker?

Join us for a fun-filled kids author talk with Tina Strachan featuring a lively book reading, wild games and a creative craft session. 'Wilder Zoo' is Tina’s debut series for middle-grade readers, consisting of Neeka and the Missing Key and now Neeka and the Storm.

Eleven-year-old Neeka Wilder has always loved animals and is lucky enough to live at Wilder Zoo, where her mum is head vet. The deadline for the school reading challenge is only a few days away and Neeka has a lot of reading to do.

When a wild storm hits, Emergency evacuation plans are put in place and even Neeka's bedroom turns into an animal nursery. But when the rain stops and the clean-up begins, focusing on reading becomes Neeka's biggest challenge.

Join us for a fun-filled kids author talk with Tina Strachan featuring a lively book reading, wild games and a creative craft session. 'Wilder Zoo' is Tina’s debut series for middle-grade readers, consisting of Neeka and the Missing Key and now Neeka and the Storm.

Eleven-year-old Neeka Wilder has always loved animals and is lucky enough to live at Wilder Zoo, where her mum is head vet. The deadline for the school reading challenge is only a few days away and Neeka has a lot of reading to do.

When a wild storm hits, emergency evacuation plans are put in place and even Neeka's bedroom turns into an animal nursery. But when the rain stops and the clean-up begins, focusing on reading becomes Neeka's biggest challenge.

Join us as bestselling author Meg Bignell talks about her heartfelt and hilarious new novel 'The Good Losers'.

Set in Tasmania, The Good Losers is a boisterous tale of music, friendship, rowing and women’s rights. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the bestselling author of The Angry Women’s Choir Meg Bignell, as she shares the inspiration behind her heartwarming novels and her mission to put women’s voices and rights in the spotlight.

Please join us at Hideaway Kitchen and Bar for the Gold Coast launch of Young Adult author Carla Salmon's debut novel We Saw What You Started.

Books, bubbles, great food and friends - now that’s a perfect recipe for a Saturday afternoon! Join us with your teens and tweens for a long lunch.

Local radio personality Emily-Jade O'Keefe will host an in conversation with Carla asking anything and everything about becoming an author, what inspired the novel and how she fits it all in! Carla is a mum to her very own tweens, is a High School Teacher and is currently writing her second novel. Carla will share more about the book and her writing process. There will be an audience Q&A at the end and a chance to get your book signed.

You can find tickets here.

Backed by scientific research, The Liver Repair Plan offers a step-by-step 4-week program to help repair your inner health.

Revitalising your liver health can help you increase energy, aid weight-loss, improve sleep, slow aging, and improve skin health.

Well-known from Channel 7’s Sunrise, Sarah Di Lorenzo’s guidance helped hundreds of her patients improve their health, and she’s joining us live in conversation at Robina Library to share practical tips and recipes from her new book and tell us why good liver health is vital to our overall wellbeing.

Join us online via Zoom at 10am, Thursday 26th June as we discuss Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent.

Our book club is a free monthly event and all are welcome.

If you’d like to join in, send us an email at erina@bookfacestores.com.au for more details, or call the store on (02) 4365 5288.

Join us at Helensvale Library as Maya Linnell discusses all things rural Australia, including how she gathers inspiration from her rural upbringing and the small communities she has always lived in and loved.

Featuring her trademark style of a rich Australian rural landscape and community spirit, Cockatoo Cove follows the story of Maggie and Fergus, two people who seemed destined to never be in the right place at the right time. Set in the picturesque Limestone Coast, this tale of family, secrets, misunderstandings, and love, will pull at your heartstrings and have you dreaming about a rural life of your own.

Our book for May is Theory & Practice by Michelle De Kretser.

Join us in store at 6pm on Friday 30th May to discuss this Stella shortlisted title. Feel free to bring along snacks, friends, or recommendations for your favourite books.

One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on what fiction can be and do.

It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students-and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray.

Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes fiction as we read, expanding our notion of what a novel can contain.

Michelle de Kretser, one of Australia's most celebrated writers, bends fiction, essay and memoir into exhilarating new shapes to uncover what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art.

Join us online via Zoom at 10am, Thursday 29th May, as we discuss our book club picks, ‘Lyrebird’ by Jane Caro and ‘One Hundred Years of Betty’ by Debra Oswald.

This month you can choose to read one, or both, of the picks - the choice is yours!

Our book club is a free monthly event and all are welcome.

If you’d like to join in, send us an email at erina@bookfacestores.com.au for more details, or call the store on (02) 4365 5288.

It’s time for our second Speak Up poetry night of 2025!

Speak Up is a spoken word poetry event, hosted by Will Small from Lead By Story and held at BOOK FACE Erina.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to come along and share a poem with the group. This is a free to attend evening with sign ups starting at 6:45pm and the night kicking off at 7pm.

Any questions? Simply email us at erina@bookfacestores.com.au