Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Katherine Johnson's discussing her new novel Paris Savages.

Paris Savages tells the story of three Batdjala people who leave their home on K’gari and travel through Europe in the late nineteenth century. Bonangera, Jurano and Dorondera have agreed to travel with Louis Muller to highlight their culture and to petition the English Queen to intervene in the violence and calculated extinction of their people.