Join a Salon of emerging writers in store at Avid Reader Bookshop – with the Courier-Mail's Phil Brown in-conversation with author James Jeffrey for the launch of his memoir "My Family and other Animus" - an ode to family life in all its glorious mess and chaos.

For the young James Jeffrey, the day his parents split was like the splitting of the atom. Life took on a seismic instability filled with madness and strain and vendetta and daftness and acts of love, both beautiful and misguided. Yet, what could have been a calamitous upbringing turned instead into an education. For better or worse, his family handed out lessons that would guide him through life, into marriage, and eventually parenthood. "My Family and Other Animus" is an ode to his family.

You can book your tickets online and purchase the book in store, or online! Tickets are available until 11 April 2018 6:00 PM.