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

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEEN CANCELLED, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

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Join us at BOOK FACE St Ives as we enter the apocalyptic world of Landfall by James Bradley.

In an already swamped city, a disastrous weather system looms, making the search to find a missing child urgent.

A missing child.

A city on edge.

Time is running out…

The world is in the grip of climate catastrophe. Sydney has been transformed by rising sea levels, soaring temperatures and rocketing social divide and unrest.

When a small girl on the margins goes missing, Senior Detective Sadiya Azad is assigned to find her. She knows exactly what it is to be displaced, and swallowed by the landscape. A murder at the site of the child’s disappearance suggests a connection and web of corruption, but fear keeps eyes turned and mouths closed.

With few leads to go on and only days until a deadly storm strikes the city, Sadiya and offsider Detective Sergeant Paul Findlay find themselves locked in a race against time.

Chilling and utterly compelling, Landfall is crime writing at its best – and a terrifying vision of the future bearing down on us.

‘Australia’s literary Nostradamus’ – The Weekend Australian

When: Thursday, 8 May

Where: BOOK FACE St Ives

Cost: FREE, RSVPs are essential

Join us online via Zoom at 10am, Thursday 24th April, as we discuss our book club pick, ‘The Women’ by Kristin Hannah.

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.

Award-winning journalist and author Jane Caro returns with her latest unputdownable thriller, Lyrebird.

Lyrebirds are brilliant mimics, and when young ornithology student Jessica hears one mimic the sound of a woman screaming in terror and begging for her life, she’s convinced they’ve witnessed a violent crime that must have taken place nearby. However, with no body or missing person, despite the support of a newly minted detective Megan, her evidence is dismissed.

Twenty years later, when a body is unearthed exactly where Jessica said it would be, Jessica - now an associate professor - and Megan - recently retired - reunite and join forces to head up the investigation, and find the killer.

Lyrebird combines the perfect mix of ingredients for crime fiction readers: a retired detective lured back into an irresistible case, a cold case, a missing teenager and a watcher who may or may not be a serial killer.

Known for her straight-talking style, social commentary and fearless attitude when it comes to discussing the big issues, in Lyrebird, Jane Caro shines a light on the tragedy of domestic violence, and illuminates the injustices perpetrated against women.

In conjunction with CBCA Central Coast, BOOK FACE Erina are excited to host the Central Coast book launch for ‘Tubowgule: A Sydney Opera House History’, written by Melissa-Jane Fogarty and illustrated by Dylan Finney.

About the book:

A fascinating and inclusive history of one of Australia's greatest landmarks, the Sydney Opera House, and the land on which it is built. This is the story of Tubowgule.

The Sydney Opera House is an Australian icon and a building recognised all around the world, but the land on which it stands has a long history. We step back in time to when Tubowgule was a ceremonial place for the Gadi people and we follow along as the land is claimed by the colonisers and then takes on various forms and uses before it comes back around again as a place to gather and share song, dance and culture.

About the event:

Melissa-Jane Fogarty and Dylan Finney will be in conversation with author Fiona Lloyd, as they discuss their new picture book and the Indigenous history of an iconic landmark.

This is a free to attend event and all are welcome. RSVPs are essential - you can RSVP by emailing us at erina@bookfacestores.com.au or by calling us on (02) 4365 5288.

We can’t wait to support this fantastic children’s picture book, and hope you can join us in celebrating here in store. Copies will be available for purchase on the night, with a signing to follow.

Author and award-winning journalist Grantlee Kieza shares the inspiring true story of a swimming champion and Hollywood star in AnAnnette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid.

From musical beginnings, to becoming a swimming champion and Hollywood sex symbol, Annette Kellerman’s story and spirit is one that inspired millions.

Born in 1886, Annette Kellerman was always ahead of her time. When a childhood illness saw her take up swimming as therapy, she discovered an ability that led to her becoming an Australian champion and attempting to cross the English Channel at only 18 years of age.

Scandalising the public with a one-piece swimming costume that exposed her legs and arms, Annette’s promotion of the outfit changed fashion forever and popularised the sport for women who were empowered to wear more liberating outfits.

Although Annette also went on to find Hollywood fame, her Annette’s greatest achievements are her promotion of health, fitness and independence for women, living out her later years right here on the Gold Coast.

All of It is a collection of essays written with honesty, humour and empathy, and invites readers into Brooke’s world as she reflects on different aspects of her life and will appeal to fans of Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love.

In All of It, Brooke discusses the various forms of love – romantic, familial and platonic to concerns that make up your early 30s – fertility, ageing, career progression, to her identity as an Indigenous woman.

Brooke Boney is a proud Gamilaroi woman, and journalist who has worked in radio, print and television, including Triple J, and most recently on Nine’s Today show.

As a journalist and storyteller with a background in political journalism, Brooke has covered everything from federal election campaigns, the awards season in LA, the death of basketball star Kobe Bryant, to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

Join us at Erina Library as historian Patricia Skehan reveals riveting secrets from the diaries of James Armitage, a young Sydney man, as well as the writings of General Sir John Monash, the military mastermind leading the Anzac troops.

The impact of World War I still ripples through time. In 'The Secrets if Anzac Ridge: Flanders 1917' Patricia Skehan brings to light secret details of Anzac experiences on the Western Front.

'The Secrets of Anzac Ridge' shows us how much humans care for each other even when the world is at its darkest, illuminating the courage and heart of those living in the trenches.

You can RSVP to this event by visiting the library’s website here.

BOOK FACE Erina will be there on the day if you’d like to purchase a copy. We look forward to seeing you there.

Join us at Erina Library as Janette Paul presents her latest novel, 'The View from the Balcony.'

Following three women in various life stages, 'The View from the Balcony,' tells an uplifting story of these women as they navigate different life challenges. Celebrate the healing power of friendship in Janette's heart-warming and evocative novel about love, friendship, and family.

You can RSVP by visiting the library’s website here.

BOOK FACE Erina will be there on the day if you’d like to purchase a copy. We look forward to seeing you there!