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...
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* 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.
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