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Brisbane launch of Chalk and Cheese

29 July 2025 No Comment

Brisbane launch of Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyen’s  CHALK & CHEESE: A Fabrication .

AVID READER BOOKSHOP West End. Brisbane  
Sunday 2 November 2pm for 2.30pm

Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication – Ross Fitzgerald & Ian McFadyen

SUNDAY 2 NOVEMBER | INSTORE EVENT
AVID READER BOOKSHOP
193 Boundary Street, West End QLD 4101 (07) 3846 3422 
2pm for a 2.30pm start | 60 mins

Join us for the launch of Chalk and Cheese: A Fabrication
 by Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Ross Fitzgerald and Ian McFadyen’s powerful new fiction, Chalk and Cheese, is a tale of two 80-year-old former radio stars, Bill and Ben, who hate each other, but who end up in the same nursing home. Even though Chalk & Cheese can be seen as a wry comedy using clear-eyed satire, it is also a compelling story which challenges our views on life in nursing homes and how the elderly are treated.
This revealing novel explores elder issues and shows how (with the aid of their grandchildren), Bill and Ben join together to protect and enhance the lives and circumstances of the elderly.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ross Fitzgerald AM is Emeritus Professor of History and Politics at Griffith University. He is the author, co-author or editor of forty-six books, including a memoir Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholics Journey and the political satires Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure, So Far, So Good: An Entertainment, The Dizzying Heights, The Lowest Depths, Pandemonium and The Ascent of Everest, all published by Hybrid Publishers. His previous publication was My Last Drink: 32 stories of recovering alcoholics, co-edited with Neal Price. Ross Fitzgerald lives in Redfern, Sydney.
Ian McFadyen is a multi-award winning writer, actor and television producer who has created a number of successful television series, books and plays. He has previously collaborated with Ross Fitzgerald in writing several books in the Grafton Everest series.


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