Vicky Tosh facilitates The Riverbend Readers book club. Vicky has also been events manager at Riverbend since 2015. Having lived in England and Canada for 16 years, where she worked in various fields (including optics and antiques), she returned to Australia and was thrilled to start working with her favourite things: books and readers. To find out about any of our bookclubs, you can contact Vicky at bookclubs@riverbendbooks.com.au.

Britt Knudsen facilitates the Riverbend Readers and Knits and Novels book clubs. She hails originally from Denmark and wears many mantles. These include a classical education, specialising in the arts and philosophy; she is multilingual and an accomplished textile artist. 

Pauline Mcleod facilitates the Teacher Librarians book club. She is Riverbend’s Children's and Young Adult Specialist. In 2015 Pauline was awarded the ABA Elizabeth Riley Fellowship for Children's Bookselling. A Teacher Librarian and former English and History teacher, Pauline worked for over a decade as coordinator of The University of Queensland Library's outreach program UQL Cyberschool. She has a Master of Arts in Children's Literature and a special interest in Young Adult fiction.

Laura Sweeney facilitates various Riverbend book clubs, though her favourite is the Classics Bookclub. She spent many years as a criminal lawyer before landing her ‘dream job’ at Riverbend.  She has been a voracious reader for more than 50 years and her literary interests span all genres including history, politics and all types of fiction. She is fascinated by people and their stories and the power those stories have to help us understand ourselves and others and to make sense of the world.  When she is not reading or talking about books you will find her in her garden. 

Chloe Townson runs our Down the Rabbit Hole Bookclub and is devoted to everything speculative fiction. (Speculative fiction is an umbrella term that encompasses all the weird and wonderful worlds of fantasy and science fiction). Chloe is from Cairns, QLD, and moved to Brisbane for University when she was 18. After numerous degrees she decided that bookselling was her one constant love, and has worked for Riverbend for 11 years. She is a member of the BookPeople board (formerly known as the Australian Booksellers Association).