Come and meet the authors with in-store and outdoor main stage author signings throughout Manly! Plus legends of the surf past and present will be on hand to sign merchandise on The Corso stage, with book authors taking you through personal and photographic presentations of some of the greatest surf stories.
1:00pm Saturday 7 November
Make your way to The Corso main stage to meet, greet and purchase a copy of Bob McTavish new book Stoked!
Through his visionary imagination Bob has become a surfing household name and began the shortboard revolution. Bob MacTavish is an inspiration to surfing progression.
11:00am Sunday 8 November
Ranked third in the world at seventeen, winner of the Pipeline Masters at nineteen, Mark Occhilupo looked set to conquer all with his radical, spontaneous and irresistible brand of surfing. Yet by the age of twenty-two he'd quite the pro tour. His celebrated comeback to win the world title in 1999, sixteen years after his career began, is a sporting fairy-tale without equal.
Icon of Australian surfing, Mark Occhilupo 'Occy' together with biographer, and acclaimed surfing writer, Tim Baker will be in conversation with local filmmaker, John Meredith followed by a book signing in Billabong of his book the ‘Rise & Fall & Rise of Mark Occhilupo.’
4:00pm Sunday 8 November
Mick Fanning readiness to learn from each experience and use it as fuel to drive him provides lessons for the rest of us. Mick will be on The Corso Main Stage with author Tim Baker, in conversation followed by a book signing in Rip Curl his new book ‘Surf for your Life!’
