The Wheeler Centre

Sophie Cunningham November 26

I've just attended the launch of The Centre for Books and Ideas, which has been renamed, The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing, Ideas. This is because Tony and Maureen Wheeler, the couple who started Lonely Planet, have become partners in the centre. Until they sold half their shares in the company to the BBC in September 2007, Lonely Planet was Australia's largest (and most global) publishing house. After they stepped back at Lonely Planet they started up The Planet Wheeler Foundation.

The centre's website looks fantastic. It was designed by Inventive Labs, who, with Golden Grouse, designed the Meanjin site. (Declaration of interest -my partner, Virginia Murdoch, is one half of the labs). Meanland (Meanjin's joint project with Overland ) will be having it's first public event there in February.

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