Adelaide Writers' Week

With Jonathan Green.

Is there something special or distinctive about the child narrator? As readers, we can assume these characters are innocent and that their perspective is flawed or at least unreliable. What do their authors think? Join Tom Lamont and Téa Obreht in conversation with Jonathan Green.

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Thu 06 Mar, 5:00pm | East Stage

With Georgina Godwin.

Award-winning historian, author and broadcaster Bettany Hughes talks to Georgina Godwin about her journey by land and sea in search of the ancient “test cases of the human imagination.”

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Thu 06 Mar, 3:45pm | East Stage

With Wendy Harmer.

Ronni Salt talks to Wendy Harmer about her new book, Gunnawah, a crime thriller set deep in the heart of outback Australia during the era of Gough Whitlam, pub brawls and flared jeans.

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Thu 06 Mar, 2:30pm | East Stage

With Pip Williams.

Bestselling author Daisy Goodwin talks to Pip Williams about her epic novel Diva, on the love affair between the most celebrated opera singer of all time and one of the world’s richest men.

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Thu 06 Mar, 1:15pm | East Stage

With Rachel Perkins.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery and Rachel Perkins discuss the violent backlash that has ensued after every period of racial progress in the United States.

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Thu 06 Mar, 12:00pm | East Stage

With Robert Dessaix.

Award-winning author Orlando Figes hopes to remind us of “the unifying force of European civilisation, which Europe’s nations will ignore at their peril”. He discusses the place of Russia in the making of modern Europe with Robert Dessaix.

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Thu 06 Mar, 10:45am | East Stage

With David Penberthy.

Joe Aston, award-winning journalist and author of The Chairman’s Lounge, joins David Penberthy to discuss the delusion, greed and shameless profiteering that brought to ground one of the nation’s most iconic brands.

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Thu 06 Mar, 9:30am | East Stage

With Michael Robotham.

Nick Harkaway, the son of John le Carré, is the author of eight novels. His latest book, Karla’s Choice, continues George Smiley’s story. In conversation with Michael Robotham, Harkaway explores the challenge of writing in the shadow and light of his father’s literary legacy.

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Wed 05 Mar, 5:00pm | East Stage

Miranda Cowley Heller became an international bestseller in 2021 with her first novel The Paper Palace. But although she has had a success that most novelists can only dream of, Miranda was writing poetry long before trying her hand at fiction and really thinks of herself first and foremost as a poet. Her first collection, What the Deep Water Knows, will be published in May. Fellow novelist Daisy Goodwin talks to Miranda about her writing process and the deep connections between fiction and poetry. Miranda will read from her new book, which will be a World exclusive for Adelaide Writers' Week.

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Wed 05 Mar, 3:45pm | East Stage

With Susan Wyndham.

Writer, translator and broadcaster Robert Dessaix talks to Susan Wyndham about his book of memories, Chameleon, a personal history of what really matters in life – art, sex and death.

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Wed 05 Mar, 2:30pm | East Stage