With Georgina Godwin.

Award-winning foreign correspondent and writer Peter Godwin and his sister Georgina Godwin discuss his memoir Exit Wounds, reflecting on their family’s legacy of exile and loss and his changing relationships with the women who have shaped his life.

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Mon 03 Mar, 5:00pm | North Stage

With Fran Kelly.

Author, essayist and journalist Lucia Osborne-Crowley talks to Fran Kelly about her new book, The Lasting Harm, her account of the Maxwell trial and a devastating critique of a criminal justice system that fails abuse survivors.

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Mon 03 Mar, 3:45pm | North Stage

With Amanda Vanstone.

After co-writing four memoirs, Christine Breen and Niall Williams decided to write In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden, an intimate, meditative account of a period in their lives when they confronted many challenges, from illness to wind turbines. They explain to Amanda Vanstone how tending to a small patch of land brought them peace, space for contemplation, and the inkling of a sense of control.

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Mon 03 Mar, 2:30pm | North Stage

Natalie Harkin talks with Jackie Huggins and Jo Case about her new work Apron-Sorrow/Sovereign-Tea, a history of Aboriginal domestic service and unwaged labour in South Australia that is imbued with the concept of archival justice.

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Mon 03 Mar, 1:15pm | North Stage

With Sue Turnbull.

Master storyteller Michael Robotham talks to Sue Turnbull about his latest thriller, Storm Child, in which a nightmare of buried memories and psychic wounds comes roaring back to life.

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Mon 03 Mar, 12:00pm | North Stage

With Maxine McKew.

Rebecca Huntley talks about her new memoir, Sassafras, an account of her quest to overcome trauma and the unconventional path she took towards healing. Join her in conversation with Maxine McKew.

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Mon 03 Mar, 10:45am | North Stage

Katrina Strickland talks to with Niall Williams, Christine Breen, Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion about the who, what, when, where and why of couples who write books together.

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Mon 03 Mar, 9:30am | North Stage

Join debut and NY Times best-selling author, Tigest Girma, as she shares her fantastical elements of her book Immortal Dark.

Event details: Sun 02 Mar, 3:45pm | North Stage

Step into the cut-throat Ravalian Court where alliances shift in a heartbeat and seduction is the prelude to murder. Join Alina Bellchambers as she discusses her debut novel.

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Sun 02 Mar, 2:30pm | North Stage

Sophie Gonzales and Erin Gough talk romance and very real feelings felt by characters in their books.

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Sun 02 Mar, 1:15pm | North Stage