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This month's book: Mr Loverman
This month we are reading Mr Loverman by Bernardine Evaristo. Grab a copy and get reading.
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #Snap26
Snap a photo in 2012. The London Olympics are on the telly, Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America, and a Korean rapper called PSY is about to take the world by storm with a little tune called Gangnam Style. It’s a strange time. A different time, almost…
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Goon Profile - Cian Pearce
Name: Cian Pearce Chapter: Newcastle What is your story? I'm 26, originally a country boy from the Mid North Coast, NSW, who moved to Sydney as a young Goon. These days, I've split the difference and live in Newcastle. Between gym sessions and reading political philosophy, I'm…
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The Rain Heron - Robbie Arnott (2020)
Our review of this book will be up shortly.
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #BP26
Getting your blood pressure checked is one of the easiest, most effective things a man can do for his health. That is why it is one of our favourite challenges here at Tough Guy Book Club. It was the first one we issued, and we keep bringing it back because it’s that damn…
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TGBC x Wheeler Centre x Bakery Hill Distillery
Books, Whisky and Conversation: Tough Guy Book Club and The Wheeler Centre at Bakery Hill Distillery On a sunny Saturday afternoon in July, book lovers, whisky lovers, Goons (terms not mutually exclusive), and even some curious newcomers gathered at Bakery Hill Distillery in…
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The End of the Story - Lydia Davis (1995)
The End of the Story by Lydia Davis is the kind of novel that’s normally far from my cup of tea. Examining in obsessive detail a year-long relationship and its aftermath, it’s a book where very little happens in the way of plot. It might even be described as anti-plot…
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TGBC Hosts ABC RN Top 100 Australian Books Listening Parties
For more than 30 years, Australians have gathered in backyards, pubs, and around backyard BBQs with a cold drink in hand to listen to Triple J’s Hottest 100 . This October, Tough Guy Book Club is bringing that iconic tradition into the literary world with a nationwide pub event…
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #Grave26
Every month, the Tough Guy Book Club issues a challenge to its members. Something to push them, to challenge them, and to give them something interesting to add to their story. For this one, we sent the Goons somewhere a bit quieter than usual. This month's challenge: grab two or…
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Bourdain Day 2026
In June each year the Goons of Tough Guy Book Club meet up with their local Chapters for annual Bourdain Day dinners at their favourite restaurants, bistros, and watering holes. Anthony Bourdain believed that the best conversations happened over a fantastic meal, and it’s safe to…
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The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma (2018)
This is a tragic family story set in Nigeria in the 1990s. It follows a similar arc to traditional Greek tragedy in that events are set on an inexorable trajectory following a prophecy made during an innocent, if mischievous, boyhood adventure. I lived in Africa for almost twenty…
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TGBC Monthly Challenge - #Poem26
#Poem26 Each month at Tough Guy Book Club we issue a challenge to our members, it can push them outside their comfort zone, try something new and add a page to their story. This month’s challenge was #Poem26. The rule book stated that no limericks could stay, No haikus were…
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