On July 25, author and journalist Matthew Condon sat down in conversation with HPRC's Dr Geoff Ginn for a discussion about his latest book, Three crooked kings, which follows the career of former police commissioner Terry Lewis, exposing the story of how Queensland society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption.

For those lucky enough to be in Melbourne for rare book week, (18 - 28 July, 2013) there are a host of free exhibitions, talks, and the ANZAAB rare book fair.

During September 1967, Archdeacon Edward Leo Hayes made the arrangements which saw his vast collection of books, manuscripts, documents, anthropological and geological specimens and assorted realia sent to the University of Queensland. The collection left an invaluable legacy to UQ's Fryer Library and anthropology museum.

In which the Fryer library unearths five versions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and transcribes a holograph of a note about a piano.

Until recently, all collections belonging to Fryer Library have been stored in the same building as the library. Increasing space problems mean that some items have been moved out of the building, and now need to be requested in advance of a visit to Fryer Library.

June is the final month for entries in The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 2013, administered by the University of Southern Queensland. So for our June collection spotlight, biographer Stephany Steggall explores Fryer's Bruce Dawe papers...

During the week beginning 3 June, Fryer Library will be working with a moving company to relocate over 1500 boxes of manuscript material to a new store, located at the Gatton campus. We have taken this step due to space constraints, especially as our collections continue to grow.

During the move, there will be some delays in accessing materials, while the movers are working.

Arthur Upfield, known as Australia's first detective novelist, was the subject of discussion at a Friends of Fryer event on May 14.

For this month's Collection Spotlight, guest writer, Sue Bell, shares her experiences of researching her great-grandmother's letters in the Fryer Library's collection.

Records of women's lives in the 19th century are very sparse in comparison with those of men or at least 'important' men. Women were usually invisible with few or no signs that they had lived and even wives of 'important' men were only recorded when they were attending social occasions or accompanying their husbands to events.

Next Tuesday's Friends of Fryer Event is "Investigating Arthur Upfield": a panel discussion about Upfield, the first Australian professional writer of detective novels. Panellist and co-editor, Kees de Hoog, blogs about how his interest in Upfield developed...

My interest in Arthur Upfield really began in the 1960s when I was a teenager. I remember reading quite a few Bony novels over that time.