A double dose of local heading to Portland library
Published on 13 November 2024
Author events are back with a bang at Glenelg Libraries this month, with two local writers with vastly different takes set to enthral their audiences.
Australia’s “granny square queen” Shelley Husband and corporate high-flyer Charles Tyler are headed to the Portland Library for Libraries After Dark events.
Shelley aims to get her audience hooked on crochet while talking about her latest book Corners and Curves on Thursday, 21 November.
The book aims to show that granny squares are so much more than a pretty pattern.
It contains 45 granny square designs, 12 projects, and guidance on how to create granny square projects of your own design.
You might think that once you’ve done one granny square project, you’ve done them all, but Shelley and her growing group of granny squarers will quickly tell you different.
From her first book, Granny Square Flair, which won UK’s Best Crochet Book in 2019, and nine since, Shelley enjoys giving her community what they want.
Now with an app, online group, and regular workshops across the country, she loves getting the curious hooked on granny squares.
When Shelley’s not running a retreat, working a workshop, or designing the next book from her hook, she’s enjoying the land she loves and lives on Gunditjmara Country.
Old and new crocheters won’t want to miss this event, as both fall in love with the way Shelley designs patterns to be practical and to grow their crochet confidence, one square at a time.
Meanwhile Charles Tyler is set to talk about his latest book, The Opposite of an Empath, on Thursday, 28 November, an event rescheduled from September.
Charles started his career as a corporate trainer, before moving into management and leadership roles in Australia and overseas, and eventually took up writing novels.
In addition to writing, Charles consults, coaches, mentors, and provides advice on organisational strategy and service design.
In 2010, Charles founded an art gallery for aspiring and emerging artists and launched his #skyart initiative during Victoria's COVID lockdowns.
Also in 2020, he put pen to paper to write his first novel, The Opposite of a Psychopath.
The novel tells the story of a man who, after the breakdown of a relationship, created his reality to be what he wanted it to be, what he needed it to be, and what he thought it ought to be; all by what he told himself.
It wasn’t a story about his actual reality, and it most certainly wasn't about the truth.
The Opposite of an Empath is part two of The Opposite of a Psychopath trilogy and was published on 1 July.
This novel is still a story about his storylines, and his storylines about his storylines.
It's a story about his relationships, and his relationship to relationships.
It's about his false beliefs and his false reality. He'd believed his feelings were his own, when perhaps they weren't.
This is a story about who he is and how he sees himself, but it still isn't about the truth.
Details – Shelley Husband
Portland Library
Thursday 21 November
6pm – 8pm
Details – Charles Tyler
Portland Library
Thursday, 28 September
6pm – 8pm
FREE events, with light refreshments provided
Bookings preferred. Phone 5522 2265, email library@glenelg.vic.gov.au, or send Glenelg Libraries a message on Facebook or Instagram to book.
Caption: Shelley Husband will talk about her new book Corners and Curves.