Bookneck events.
They’re what bookmarks were made for
Markets. Pop-ups. Author events. Weddings, parties, anything. Wherever there are readers, we just seem to manifest.
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2026
June
Sunday 21st, ScullyBug Markets at Seaford Hotel, 9am-2pm
July
Sunday 19th, ScullyBug Markets at Seaford Hotel, 9am-2pm
Winter Parlour Series: Keeping a Commonplace Book (details below)
August
Sunday 16th, ScullyBug Markets at Seaford Hotel, 9am-2pm
The Parlour Series - Winter 2026
The Bookneck Parlour Series is a season of intimate literary gatherings inspired by the slower social traditions of the Regency era. Think candlelit conversation, correspondence and creativity somewhere between a Jane Austen novel and a winter literary salon, culminating in a Regency-inspired Winter Assembly.
Launching Winter 2026 on the Mornington Peninsula, we're currently shaping the inaugural season, with gatherings expected to include:
commonplace books and literary correspondence
literary salons
watercolour and botanical evenings
parlour games
beginner-friendly social dance evenings
candlelit gatherings and a Winter Assembly
If this sounds like your kind of thing, be sure to sign up to our mailing list for early invitations and season announcements.
Winter Parlour No. 1: Keeping a Commonplace Book
Thursday 9 July 2026
Mount Martha House, Mount Martha
$39 | Limited to 12 guests
Join us for the first gathering in the Winter Parlour Series: an intimate evening exploring the lost art of the commonplace book.
Part literary journal, part scrapbook, part cabinet of curiosities, a commonplace book is a place to collect quotations, observations, poems, sketches and fragments worth keeping.
Over tea, conversation and candlelight, we'll create our own commonplace books and begin filling their pages together.
2027
February
Sunday 14th, Bookneck Literary Picnic at Mulberry Hill (time and tickets TBC)
