With Beejay Silcox | Helen Elliott, a wonderfully perceptive literary critic, finally decided to write a memoir – a letter to eleven people who influenced her life. She explains why to Beejay Silcox.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 2:30pm

Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera and Karen Wyld | What remains after colonisation? After heartbreak? After protest? Like the rocks, First Peoples remain. Co-editors and contributors of The Rocks Remain anthology discuss continuation and the power of story. Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera, and Karen Wyld in-conversation.

Supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 2:30pm

With Sarah L'Estrange | Jonathan Lethem is a genre agnostic – from sci-fi to detective fiction. He explains to Sarah L’Estrange why he likes books in all their “homely actuality”.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 1:15pm

With Rachel Perkins | David Marr confronts uncomfortable truths with his customary courage and acuity in a conversation with Rachel Perkins.

Supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 1:15pm

With Jo Case | Lynne Malcolm spent many years presenting Radio National’s All in the Mind. Now she has distilled all she has learned in a book about neuroscience, psychiatry, mental health and human behaviour. She explores the issues with Jo Case.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 12:00pm

With Nicole Abadee | Kate Grenville has been delighting readers since her very first collection, Bearded Ladies, was published in 1984. Nicole Abadee takes the opportunity to talk to Grenville about her oeuvre.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 12:00pm

With Lisa Temple | Susanna Moore joins Lisa Temple via live stream to talk about her new novel, The Lost Wife, her memoir and ‘that novel’ – In the Cut.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 10:45am

With Jane Howard | Pip Williams, best-selling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, tells Jane Howard about her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – an encomium to the art and craft of making books.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 10:45am

With Sian Cain | Today the Spanish Civil War is remembered through writers like George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway. Anna Funder and Sarah Watling join Sian Cain to explore the stories of the courageous women who have been written out of this history.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 9:30am

With Nicole Abadee | Blake Morrison advises memoirists to remember god is in the details. Nicole Abadee tests this advice with Martin Flanagan and Polly Toynbee.

Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 9:30am