September 26, 2022

Name: Chas Lang Chapter: Mornington Chapter Who are you: So who am I? I'm I pretty ordinary 30-something guy. It's hard for 30-something guys to make new friends, but I...

September 05, 2022

As Tough Guy Book Club slowly takes over the towns, cities, and suburbs of Australia, one area has been an unexpected focus of our expansion plans: Gippsland. For a relatively...

August 31, 2022

If you’ve been around Tough Guy Book Club for a while, you’ll know we do monthly challenges. These challenges range from something a little strange like our unusual reading challenge,...

August 17, 2022

Tough Guy Book Club brings deep discussion back to the pub- By Rowan Cowley Retiree Vince Bartilotta's life was missing something until he joined a blokey book club in an...

August 17, 2022

August 2022 saw one of our coolest challenges yet, with goons being encouraged to give blood as part of the TGBC Lifeblood donor team. Restrictions preventing former residents of the...

July 20, 2022

guer.ril.la (noun) A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces. From the Spanish, diminutive of guerra meaning 'war' +++ What's the...

July 13, 2022

In June 2022, ten goons from all points of the compass and all walks of life met in Sydney’s southwest for a two-day workshop in suicide first aid. The commitment...

June 22, 2022

The Tough Guy Book Club June #LastDrinks Challenge is a barrel aged kettle sour double dry hopped imperial triple india hazy pale oatmeal stout lager ale. It ranges anywhere from...

April 20, 2022

Is Tough Guy Book Club a drinking club with a reading problem, or the other way around? We get asked this question sometimes, but mostly because everyone’s mum used to...

April 20, 2022

Tough Guy Book Club takes January off (who wants to talk books when you're busy breaking your New Years resolutions?) so February is our first meeting of the year. That...

April 19, 2022

Make no mistake, Dudley gets into it.   We've heard that not all book clubs actually talk about books. Tough Guy Book Club could easily fall into that category. We're...

April 13, 2022

Say you're at home. Doing whatever it is you do at home. Reading, we hope. Or sprawling on the couch watching TV, that's fine too. Now, say something terrible comes...

April 02, 2022

To tell the story of the Camp of the Sun Burnt River, the 2022 Summer Camp, we have to travel all the way back to the before times of 2020,...

March 29, 2022

February-March 2022 brought some of the worst flooding in Australia's history. Massive areas of NSW and Queensland vanished underwater. Some of them haven't emerged yet, and there's more rain coming....

March 23, 2022

You know what's tough? Finding time to read. We get that. It's one of the reasons we exist. Life is complicated, responsibilities are many, and work is sometimes the only...

March 23, 2022

Do you have trouble explaining to other dudes what Tough Guy Book Club is about? Is it weird telling them you're in a book club in the first place? It...

March 08, 2022

Tough Guy Book Club is everywhere. You can find us in big cities and small towns, on the coast and in the hills. You can find us in pubs and...

February 20, 2022

The year was I can’t remember, but my girlfriend (now wife) and I had started a new yearly tradition of driving our campervan from Sydney to Melbourne (and back again)...

February 09, 2022

Years ago, when he was travelling in Canada, Daniel Westall went to a mate's house to see his new big screen TV. It was mostly for watching hockey (because Canada)...

January 12, 2022

There are eight million stories in the Naked City, and Tough Guy Book Club has an opinion on every single one of them. Naked City, the Big Apple, the City...

December 23, 2021

One of the best things about books is pushing your favourite ones on other people. Actually, that's not just true of books. Films, music, food, cars, sports, gadgets, places to...

November 24, 2021

As 2021 came to a close, we had our last TGBC meeting, and our last challenge of the year. It’s no secret that December and January are big recruiting drives...

November 14, 2021

Hey, remember when we got a writeup in Tradie magazine? Remember print magazines? Neither did we! But not only do they still exist, there's apparently more than one of them...

October 20, 2021

Every month at Tough Guy Book Club, we set ourselves a challenge. Not just the challenge of getting a bunch of men to read a piece of fiction, which is...

October 13, 2021

Another month, another new Tough Guy Book Club chapter. That’s not to say we’re only opening one new chapter a month (it seems like it’s been at least new one...