Books, reading & writing

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Bret Easton Ellis / Books, reading & writing

With Bret Easton Ellis and Alan Brough

1 Aug 2017

Past event

The Fifth Estate

Immigration / Migration

With Sally Warhaft, Munjed Al Muderis, and Shen Narayanasamy

3 Aug 2011

News

Promo image for The End of a Short-Lived American Century

The End of a Short-Lived American Century / International relations & diplomacy

By Jon Tjhia

18 Nov 2010

Past event

Lloyd Jones / Books, reading & writing

With Ramona Koval and Lloyd Jones

27 Feb 2011

Past event

Promo image for Leaving Microsoft to Change the World

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World / Books, reading & writing

With John Wood

21 Mar 2018

Past event

Promo image for Barry Hill: Reason and Lovelessness

Barry Hill: Reason and Lovelessness / Books, reading & writing

With Barry Hill and Justin Clemens

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Griffith Review: Millennial Edition / Identity

With Jerath Head, Yassmin Abdel-Magied, Briohny Doyle and 1 other

6 Mar 2018

Past event

Promo image for Witnessing Climate Change

Witnessing Climate Change / Climate change & weather

With Andi Horvath, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Jim Robbins and 2 others

Coming of Age: Growing Up Muslim in Australia / Faith, religion & spirituality

Cory Doctorow / Science fiction

With Cory Doctorow and C.S. Pacat

14 Mar 2014

Past event

Alexander McCall Smith / Books, reading & writing

With Alexander McCall Smith and Robert Gott

14 May 2013

Past event

Texts in the City

Jane Eyre / Fiction

With Lili Wilkinson and Carmel Bird

18 Apr 2011

News

Promo image for Great Books From Beyond the Grave

Great Books From Beyond the Grave / Fiction

By Alex Landragin

29 Jun 2011

News

Promo image for So birds do grammar, but how's their algebra?

So birds do grammar, but how’s their algebra? / Words & language

By Alex Landragin

27 Feb 2012

Past event

Promo image for Alom Shaha: The Young Atheist's Handbook

Alom Shaha: The Young Atheist’s Handbook / Books, reading & writing

With Alom Shaha and John Safran

22 Mar 2015

Past event

Promo image for Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

Meet the Authors and Illustrators: Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton / Children’s books

With Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

15 Nov 2010

Past event

Promo image for Ranjana Srivastava, Peter Farrar, Barry Divola and Steve Holden

Debut Mondays

Ranjana Srivastava, Peter Farrar, Barry Divola and Steve Holden / New & emerging writers

With Peter Farrar, Barry Divola, Ranjana Srivastava and 1 other

3 Mar 2011

Kim Scott First Indigenous Commonwealth Winner / Australian stories

By Alex Landragin

Congratulations to Kim Scott, who has been named the winner of the southeast Asia and Pacific regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Nominated for his novel, That Deadman Dance, Scott thus becomes eligible to win the overall prize.

Scott is an indigenous Western Australian writer - a descendant of the Noongar people - and he previously won the Miles Franklin Award in 2000 for his…

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