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Simon Castles will be in conversation with Thornton McCamish, author of Our Man Elsewhere

In the 1980s there was a kind of magic to the mixtape. They could be anything its creator wanted. The mixtape was like a letter, but it was also a personal soundtrack. You wanted it to say something about you - to express in some abstract way how you felt about the world, life, hopes, dreams and love. This book is like a mixtape because it is a mixture of things, all of them touching in one way or another on life in the 1980s and music. Through a series of funny, heart-warming and incisive memoir pieces, stories and essays, the 1980s are brought back to life - the last decade before personal computers, the internet and mobile phones came along and changed everything. So hit rewind and then press play

Simon Castles is an editor at the Age and a former editor of the Big Issue. His writing has appeared in a range of publications including Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and Dazed & Confused.

Venue: Eltham Bookshop, 970 Main Road Eltham

Date: 16 May 2023

Time: 7.00pm until 8.00pm

Free Entry.