Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 25 November
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Novelist Andrea Goldsmith in conversation with James Ley will explore the poetically vivid fictional universe of an internationally revered Australian literary icon – Patrick White – in Riders in the Chariot.
Australian Literature 102
We’ve created an Australian Classics book club, just for you – with special writerly guests each month.
Last year’s hugely popular Australian Literature 101 set the scene by introducing ten texts our experts deemed unmissable Australian reading.
This year, we invite you on a brand new, leisurely stroll through our national literature, as we guide you through rediscovered classics and much-loved favourites alike.
Our host is renowned critic – and literature lover – James Ley, editor of the Sydney Review of Books.
Featuring
Andrea Goldsmith
The novelist, Andrea Goldsmith, met Dorothy Porter in 1992 on the Victorian Women's Writers’ Train. They were together until Dorothy’s death in December, 2008. Both writers were short-listed for the 2003 Miles Franklin award, Andrea for her fourth novel, The Prosperous Thief, and Dorothy for her verse novel, Wild Surmise. Andrea’s 6th novel, The Memory Trap, won the Melbourne Prize for Best writing in 2015.
Her most recent book is Invented Lives, a novel of exile and love set in Soviet Russia and 1980s Melbourne. Andrea also writes essays. These have been published widely both in Australia and overseas. Some of these essays plus many shorter articles can be found on her website at www.andreagoldsmith.com.au
View ProfileJames Ley
James Ley holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Western Sydney. He has been a professional literary critic for fifteen years.
His work has appeared in many publications, including the Age, the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Australian Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement. He is editor of the Sydney Review of Books.