Book launch: The Montegiallo School of Swearing by Andrew HC McDonald is uncensored this April

Come along to the launch of the hilarious and heart-warming The Montegiallo School of Swearing by Andrew HC McDonald.

Held at the State Library of Western Australia on Thursday 24 April, Andrew will be in-conversation with Australian-Italian writer and journalist Chenée Marrapodi. Go behind the scenes into the book’s creation and be transported to the quaint – if cuss-filled – town of Montegiallo.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Accidentally buying a Sicilian villa for just one euro is not the great Eat, Pray, Love game-changer that Brian Chapman hoped it would be. Instead, tumbledown buildings, a shortage of plumbers, and resentful locals make Brian’s drunken whim look like the biggest mistake of his chequered career so far. Who could believe that an outbreak of swearing would lead not only to cultural reconciliation but to this very Australian fish out of water finding true love in Italy?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrew HC McDonald was born in the small town of Shackleton in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, moving to the foothills of Perth at an early age. He has been a photographer, a comedian, storyteller and is well known as a visual artist, particularly as a printmaker. He currently works at Curtin University.

ABOUT THE HOST

Chenée Marrapodi is an Australian journalist, writer and podcaster. She has worked in media for many years, currently for Channel Nine News, and formerly as a reporter for Channel Seven’s Today Tonight, as well as online news and radio. Chenée’s love of words is rivalled only by her love of dance. Her middle-grade novels, One Wrong Turn and Breaking Pointe, combine those two loves.

Copies of The Montegiallo School of Swearing will be available for purchase, with Andrew on hand to sign and stamp your book with a custom flourish.

The event is free to attend and bookings can be made via the Fremantle Press Humanitix.