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AUTHOR PROFILES AUTHOR PROFILES TOWN HALL AND PETANQUE STAGES TOWN HALL AND PETANQUE STAGES LIBBY ANGEL is an Australian poet whose work has appeared in several journals. The Trapeze Act is her first novel. ‘An expertly layered, lyrical rumination on family and identity… Angel has a vivid imagination and poetic skill with language. Her prose is evocative, her strikingly original characters as bright and colourful as they are intense. The Trapeze Act is a compelling portrait of a highly dysfunctional but delightful family.’ THE HON TIM FISCHER AC was born at Lockhart on 3 May 1946, and was educated at Xavier College in Melbourne, was conscripted into the Australian Army in 1966 and served in The Vietnam War. He entered politics in 1971 and became Deputy Prime Minister in 1996, Ambassador to the Holy See in 2008 and is now a successful book author. His other interests are notably family, farming, charity work and biking and bushwalking in Bhutan. KATE GRENVILLE is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her most recent book, The Case Against Fragrance (2017), is an accessible and personal investigation into the science of scent and the power o