Join the Friends of Fryer to meet the author of Happily ever after: Celebrating Pride and prejudice and President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia (JASA), Susannah Fullerton, next Friday, 11 October, 2013.

The Fryer Library has a new website and we want to know what you think about the changes.

The new website aims to make it much easier to find information about visiting Fryer, the collections, and our community.

The 2013 issue of Fryer Folios has arrived! Focussing on art, the issue includes:

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.

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

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.

An almost capacity crowd attended the first Friends of Fryer event for 2013, "Antarctica: Bravery in the landscape" last week.

The panel discussion, hosted in conjunction with the UQ Art Museum, focused on the artwork of Linde Ivimey. In particular, her sculptures of ice warrior figures, which are a striking feature of the Art Museum's current exhibition "If Pain Persists… Linde Ivimey Sculpture".

The 2012 Friends of Fryer Christmas event struck a high note, with over fifty guests attending to hear Professor Peter Roennfeldt speak about his new book Northern Lyrebird: The contribution to Queensland's Music by its Conservatorium 1957-2007.

Fryer Library was delighted to recently add to its collection a silk theatre handbill. With black print on cream silk and a fringed edging, it is a very early example of this genre in Brisbane.

In conjunction with the Brisbane Writers Festival, on 7 September the University of Queensland Library hosted authors Drusilla Modjeska and Jon Doust in a discussion chaired by Professor <a href="http://www.brisbanew