The Full Report

Spotted at the A&U 20th Anniversary party:

• Champagne
• Large and billowy cockatoos
• Views of the harbour bridge
• Smashing frocks
• Seafood
• Champagne
• Small bowls of tasty noms
• Authors
• Agents
• Booksellers
• Directors and CEOs
• A Miles Franklin-winning author, an agent, a bookseller and a chairman each making an excellent speech.
• Editors
• Publicists
• Designers
• Illustrators
• Printers
• Typesetters
• Publishers
• IT dudes
• Publishing assistants
• Financial wranglers
• Rights managers
• Sales managers
• Office managers
• Media types
• Literary mag types
• Luminaries
  
• Name tags*
• Seafood
• Champagne
• A luminous white suit
• Delicious little mushroom tart things
• Champagne
• A contortionist, a hoop twirler, a juggler
• Floor-length gowns
• An author showing everyone her Spanx**
• A live band
• Animated conversations
• Beautifully be-suited gentlemens
• Hordes of literati at play
• Snappy moves on the dance floor
• Seafood
• Champagne***
• A long queue at the cloakroom
• Goodbye kisses

And photographers...




* And eyes angled furtively to enable reading of name tags without appearing to ogle bosoms.
** For the curious. (If you DARE.)
*** We believe there were other beverages available, but we chose to focus our attentions on the champagne.