Books at the Brewery: Toni Jordan + Jayne Tuttle
A double bill at The Taproom with two fabulous Australian authors,
Toni Jordan and Jayne Tuttle. Double the conversation, double the stories, double the talent - this will be a not-to-be-missed event.
Toni Jordan
About the book
'Tenderfoot is magnificent. Deeply moving. Beautiful. Powerful' - TRENT DALTON
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By the bestselling, award-winning author of Addition, an exhilarating novel about coming of age in 1970s Australia
Wait for the boxes to open, wait for the race to begin. Wait, and your greyhound will cease to be the dog you know and become an entirely different kind of animal.
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Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer, with dogs of her very own.
But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complicated than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about - her family, her friends, the dogs - it's up to Andie to reclaim her future. She will need all her wits to survive this new reality of secrets and half-truths, addictions and crime.
With luminous, aching prose, Tenderfoot will move you like no other story this year.
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Toni will be in conversation with Kristin Gill
About the Author
Toni Jordan has worked as a molecular biologist, quality control chemist, TAB operator and door-to-door aluminium siding salesperson. She is the author of the international bestseller Addition, which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and has been adapted into a feature film, in cinemas in 2026. Her novel Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards and was named in Kirkus Reviews' top 10 Historical Novels of 2013; Our Tiny, Useless Hearts, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award; and her two Schnabel family novels, Dinner with the Schnabels and Prettier if She Smiled More, were critically acclaimed. Toni has been published widely in newspapers and magazines. She holds a Bachelor of Science in physiology and a PhD in Creative Arts and lives in Melbourne. Tenderfoot is her eighth novel.
Jayne Tuttle
About the book
From the critically acclaimed author of Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine comes a powerfully written and deeply personal story of ambition, art and human nature in Paris.
Jayne is a new mother in Paris trying to balance her creative ambition and lust for city life with the instinctual urges of motherhood - and failing.
As her relationship with her husband and the city strains, she searches for answers in a friendship with an older Frenchwoman, the streets, the crowds, in art and writing and new wave cinema… but finds only more questions. Something has to give, but what?
‘A whirlwind of longing – mother-longing, lover-longing, artist-longing – this book will sweep you off your feet.’ —Siang Lu, author of Ghost Cities
Jayne will be in conversation with Mel Fulton
About the Author
Jayne Tuttle is the author of the critically acclaimed books Paris or Die and My Sweet Guillotine. She has written for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Guardian and a host of international outlets.
Raised in Melbourne, Jayne moved to Paris in 2004 to take up a French Government Enseignement Supérieur scholarship to attend the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School. After graduating, she remained in France to work in theatre, and as a translator and bilingual copywriter. In 2021 Jayne and fellow Lecoq alumnus John Bolton developed Paris or Die into a solo stage play, touring Melbourne, regional Victoria and France. In 2023, Jayne was sponsored by the Ville de Paris to adapt and perform the play for an international audience.
Jayne has received fellowships from the La Napoule Art Foundation and Bundanon Trust, and is a long-term artist-in-residence at the Centre les Récollets in Paris. In 2021, she was awarded the Varuna Eric Dark Flagship Fellowship.
Jayne co-owns The Bookshop at Queenscliff.
Date:
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time:
5 30pm for a 6 00pm start and 8 30pm finish
Venue:
The Taproom, Shedshaker Brewery, 9 Walker Street, Castlemaine, 3450
Cost:
$20
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