SVENGALI PRESS BOOK LAUNCHES
We can organise book launches for our authors. The venue for a launch could be at a bookshop, a restaurant, or at a private place such as a home or business. Depending on the author's requirements, we can also arrange a speaker to launch the book and we can provide suitable refreshments for the occasion.
Below are some photos of launches we have held. (Click HERE for how to purchase the books featured below.)
LAUNCH OF THE 2017 REPORTS OF THE UUSC'S FRIDAY GROUP
...and Bring Your Opinions With You...
Graham Bates, author of the reports of the meetings of the Friday Group, addressing the launch of the book at the Union, University & Schools Club (UUSC) Sydney, on Friday April 6, 2018.
THE VIRGIN OF ROOTY HILL
LAUNCHED AT GLEEBOOKS, GLEBE, SYDNEY
The "Courtier", who illustrated The Virgin of Rooty Hill ( left), and the Lounge Lizard (right), author of this book of amusing stories from the Media, Clubland, and elsewhere. The pair wore masks at the launch at Gleebooks on November 16, 2017, - to hide their real identities.
ARTEMISIA AN THE MAN OF TARENTUM
Dr Ian S. Collins, the author of Artemisia, has written a novel based on his deep knowledge of Roman history.
His book was launched at the UUSC on March 16, 2018.
JUST PUBLISHED
Finding the Right Peson for the Job
This useful guide to interview techniques will be of great use to personnel managers and others who are looking for the right peopke to work in their businesses or organisations.
The author, Graham Clinch, graduated from Sydney University in 1974 with a Masters degree in Psychology and went on to head the HR departments of a number of leading multinationals before setting up his own consulting business.
Publication details and availablity to be announced shortly.
LEGAL EAGLES' BOOK LAUNCH
Keith Mason (l) and John Bryson (at lectern)
A distinguished group of Sydney's legal leaders joined Club Members at the Union, University and Schools Club on Friday August 9, 2017, to celebrate the launch of former Appeals Court Judge John Bryson's book Bar, Bench & Land Law.
Keith Mason QC, AO, launched the book, telling some very funny stories about Gough Whitlam and Sir John Kerr.
LAUNCH OF ASSASSINATIONS AT GLEEBOOKS BY FILM DIRECTOR BRUCE BERESFORD
Bruce Beresford launching Assassinations
A well-attended launch of Renate Yates's latest collection of short stories was held at Gleebooks on December 8, 2017. The audience enjoyed Australian film director, Bruce Beresford's anecotes as he launched the book. After the launch, many attendees went on to dinner at nearby Glebe restauran, Otto Noorbat.
IT WAS WORTH IT!
VOLUME 2 LAUNCH
Christopher Dawson addresses the audience at the launch of Ian's Volume 2
THE launch of Volume 2 of Ian Collins's memoirs, titled It was Worth It! was held at the Union University and Schools Club on Friday August 19 - the second book launch for The Svengali Press in August, with another one to come on August 25
THE SYDNEY & LONDON LAUNCHES OF GARSINGTON REVISITED
GARSINGTON REVISITED, a revised and updated version of Sandra J. Darroch's original biography of Lady Ottoline Morrel, had two launches in Sydney and one in London.
The first Sydney launch was at Gleebooks in Glebe on August 11, 2017, where the book and author were introduced by artist Paul Delprat aka Prince Paul of Wy, and on August 18, 2017, at the Union, University and Schools Club, where, once again, the book was introduced by Paul, who is an old friend of Sandra’s and who accompanied her on several of the interviews she did over 40 years ago for her original biography of Ottoline Morrell.
The book was launched in London on July 1, 2017 in an elegant reception room in William Goodenough House in Bloomsbury, not far from Ottoline's forermer residence at 44 Bedford Square.
THE AUSTRALIAN AND UK LAUNCH OF ROBERT DARROCH’S DH LAWRENCE’S 99 DAYS IN AUSTRALIA
Former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs (and former Premier of NSW) Bob Car, launched Robert Darroch's DH Lawrence’s 99 Days in Australia, Vol 1, The Quest for Cooley and Vol 2: The Silvery Freedom…and the Horrible Paws” at the State Library of NSW on Thursday August 25, 2016.
Bob Carr
Video of Bob Carr launching D.H. Lawrence's 99 Days in Australia
Robert Darroch
President of the D.H. Lawrence Society of Australia, Robert Darroch, addressing the audience at the London launch of his books
SANDRA J. DARROCH
Sandra Jobson (Darroch) delivered her paper on September 14, 2016, at the D.H. Lawrence International Conference at St Ives, Cornwall, UK. She spoke about her literary discovery that Lawrence had based part of his character Alvina in his novel The Lost Girl on the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, who had lived next door to him in Cornwall in 1916.
After the Conference, Sandra's book was launched in London and Sydney in October 2016..