Madame....

Ive been meaning to advertise this event on my blog for a while, but of course old Fuzz-Brain here didn't get around to it, and so the author talk was last night and it was great but I still wanted to spruik about his gorgeous little book Madame Brussels: this moral pandemonium by L.M. Robinson. All about Melbourne's "Queen of Harlotry", MB was a brothel owner in Melbourne in the 1880's and 90's and as much as I cant go past anything on this topic... This book is so much more than that!!! It's a great alternative history of Melbourne, delves into the Parliament of the time (MB was widely suspected of being the thief of the Victorian parliamentary mace... taken by some girls and some of her (many) politician clients for some... Hck Hmm... Parliamentary role play... By the way there is still a $50,000 reward out there for the Mace if anyone knows its whereabouts.



Anyways it's a fab little book by my new favourite publishers Arcade publications who are specialising in these quirky, local untold stories.

They have two new books coming out soon too which I'm really excited about. Our Girls: Aussie Pin-Ups of the 40's and 50's... I've already got the Librarian beauty pageant lined up for that one! and Hoax Nation which I think will be just fascinating.


It's just a pity that our Council's communications dept. didn't get behind us in advertising this event... apparently they "ran out of time" (hhmmmm... that's never happened before) which is why it didn't get into the local papers and council news things etc... guess it was all just a bit too saucy for them!