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Discuss art, life, culture and creativity at our monthly Book Club. This month's title connects to ideas and themes in ‘Justene Williams: Once We Were Mudskippers’.

Ticket includes light refreshments. Members receive 20% off current and past Book Club titles at the QAGOMA Stores.

Fugitive Blue (2008) by Claire Thomas

A beautiful, beguiling and multi-layered novel, Fugitive Blue tells the story of a young art conservator and her work on an unusual panel painting in striking ultramarine. As she restores the fragile artwork, she begins to speculate on its provenance - its controversial creation in Renaissance Venice and reappearance 300 years later during a young nobleman's Grand Tour of Europe, passing through nineteenth-century Paris before its eventual arrival in Australia as one of the scarce possessions of a post-war Greek migrant family. Threaded through the painting's progress is the story of the young conservator's own life in contemporary Melbourne, her developing passion for her work and the demise of her relationship with an actor named Mark. Captivating and intriguing, Fugitive Blue is a fluidly elegant novel that gets to the essence of love's fragility.

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September-November titles

• Jim Henson: The Biography (2025) by Brian Jay Jones
• Theory & Practice (2024) by Michelle de Kretser
• Fugitive Blue (2008) by Claire Thomas