Sanctuary by Garry Disher ISBN:9781922790620

book launch: danielle binks

six summers of tash and leopold

Join us for this free event to celebrate the launch of the new Middle Grade novel Six Summers of Tash and Leopold by local author Danielle Binks. After two failed attempts at hosting book launches for Danielle, once in 2020 for The Year the Maps Changed and again in 2022 for Monster of Her Age due to lockdowns, we are delighted to finally be able to welcome Danielle back for our third-times-a-charm book launch this August! Bring the kids and enjoy a festive afternoon with us.
  • Danielle Binks in conversation with Jaclyn Crupi (Pasta Love, Garden Like a Nonno & Nonna Knows Best).
  • Author Q&A and book signing.
  • Exclusive pre-release of Six Summers of Tash and Leopold.
  • Prizes for best questions for Danielle and best book week dress-up, come dressed in your favourite book themed costume!
  • Time Capsule tutorial and sweet treats for all purchases of Six Summers of Tash and Leopold.

saturday 24 august ||  3:00pm

In store  |  Free event  |  Bookings essential

Six Summers of Tash and Leopold

Available 24 August

Alytash and Leopold – Tash and Leo – are neighbours who used to be best friends, but aren’t anymore, for reasons that Leo doesn’t entirely understand. But now it’s the last week of Year Six and Tash is standing in Leo’s front yard with a misdelivered letter – and a favour to ask.

It’s a request that will set off a chain of events in their little crescent in Noble Park, a suburb that is changing, and fast.

As they solve an unfolding neighbourhood mystery and help Ms. Shepparson, a reclusive neighbour with a tragic past, Tash and Leo each has to confront fault lines in their own recent histories and families.

They will discover that friendships can grow and change, that bravery takes many forms, and that, most of all – whatever the future holds – friends and family are what matter.

about the author

Danielle Binks is a Melbourne-based writer and literary agent with Jacinta di Mase Management. In 2017, she edited and contributed to Begin, End, Begin, an anthology of new Australian young adult writing inspired by the #LoveOzYA movement, which won the ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children (Ages 13+). The Year the Maps Changed, Danielle’s bestselling middle-grade novel, was a 2021 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Notable Book, and released in North America in 2022 with Harper Collins. Her first solo YA novel The Monster of Her Age released in 2021, won the Young Adult category of the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Danielle is also teaching Fiction & Young Adult Writing in the Associate Degree of Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT University.