• Dave Witty and more: Reading Nature – Walk & Talk

    Brimbank Libraries 704B Old Calder Highway, Keilor, VIC

    Explore the natural world with authors Darryl Jones, Dave Witty & artists, Callum Morton and Jen Berean. Audience: Adults Do you like looking at squiggly gums and listening to the...

  • Diana Thorp at the Manly Writers’ Festival

    Manly Life Saving Club Ashburner St &, S Steyne, Manly, NSW

    When institutions fail or protect themselves, the consequences are rarely shared equally. In this extended roundtable, Ainslie Harvey, Tracey Holmes, Ee Ling Quah, and Diana Thorp examine how power operates...

  • Nadia Wheatley at the Manly Writers’ Festival

    Sky Theatre 56 Raglan Street, Manly, NSW

    In very different places and circumstances, Clever Men by Martin Thomas and Strange New World by Nadia Wheatley begin at moments of supposed benevolence: a grand scientific expedition to Arnhem...

  • Lachlan Strahan at the Manly Writers’ Festival

    Manly Youth Centre Kangaroo Street, Manly, NSW

    What does diplomacy really look like behind closed doors? The former Foreign Minister and three former diplomats lift the veil on the pressures, responsibilities and moral complexities of representing Australia...

  • Sorrento Writers’ Festival: In Conversation: Nadia Wheatley

    The Ballroom, The Continental 1/21 Ocean Beach Rd, Sorrento, VIC

    Nadia Wheatley with Jane Sullivan Award-wining author Nadia Wheatley’s career spans 40 years and includes some fine biographies and non-fiction works, including books include The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift (2001),  Her...