W ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 3 – 8 MARCH 2018 FREE ENTRY PIONEER WOMEN’S MEMORIAL GARDEN

WIllustration © Anna-Wili Highfield 2017 Welcome LAURA KROETSCH Director, Adelaide Writers’ Week

Welcome to the 2018 program for Adelaide Writers’ Week. It is once again a pleasure to announce the 218 writers who will gather with us in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden.

This year the idea of change runs through the program, BOOK TENT be it in terms of the climate, personal transformations, coming-of-age stories, political strife, radicalisation

Where Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden and the changes which are happening within the When Sat 3–Thu 8 Mar, 9am–6.30pm natural world.

Together we will consider the American South, the future of Australian farming, the personal essay, the power of the photograph, and we will look back at Australia’s political history and take a fresh look at a queen. With our guest writers we will consider war and peace, poverty and wealth, youth and age as well as a bit of rock & roll.

On behalf of Adelaide Festival, I thank the staff and the many sponsors and patrons who make this event possible. We again thank Trees for Life for generously growing the native plants that populate the garden.

As this is my final Adelaide Writers’ Week I would especially like to thank the audiences, writers and publishers who have made my tenure here such a delight.

Thank you for your support.

WITH SPECIAL THANKS TO

Cover Illustration © Anna-Wili Highfield 2017

ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 3 JAY WEATHERILL PREMIER OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA/MINISTER FOR THE ARTS This year’s outstanding selection of international authors promises to make the 2018 Writers’ Week one of the most stimulating and enjoyable in the history of the event.

Political struggle, history, true and fictional crime, families and their secrets – these and many other themes will be explored in the pleasant and evocative surroundings of the Adelaide Parklands. Dedication The State Government has always been a strong supporter MEM FOX of Writers’ Week, and we hope to continue to be long into the future.

We see it as an essential component of the Adelaide Festival, as a world-class literary gathering, and as an invaluable forum n 2017 Mem Fox won the CBCA Nan for the discussion of ideas and solutions in a turbulent world. Chauncy Award for her outstanding contribution to children’s literature. The citation reads, in part, “Mem Fox has Ibecome ‘a household name’ with children, families, students of literature and literacy JUDY POTTER and the broad community, in a stellar career CHAIR, ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CORPORATION spanning nearly 40 years.”

A much-loved and key component of the Adelaide Festival, Born in and raised in what Adelaide Writers’ Week 2018 will be the 33rd edition and the was then Rhodesia, Fox studied drama seventh since it went annual in 2012. in London before returning to Africa and Where is the Green Sheep?, Hattie and the eventually returning to Australia. Her Fox, Time for Bed, and most recently I’m Adelaide Writers’ Week is among the great literary festivals professional life began at Flinders University of the world, adored by readers and writers alike. It takes Australian Too. Her work for adults includes where she studied children’s literature and her best-selling Reading Magic. enormous levels of support to make this unique cultural event wrote the first drafts of Possum Magic. possible and we sincerely thank our government, corporate and philanthropic partners for their immense generosity. It is a great honour to dedicate Adelaide Fox has always maintained that teaching Writers’ Week 2018 to Mem Fox. She takes was her first love, writing second. She her place among past dedicatees Brenda The 2018 Adelaide Writers’ Week, Laura Kroetsch’s final spent 24 years at Flinders as an Associate event as Director, is looking set to be one of the best yet. We Niall, Robert Dessaix, Margo Lanagan and Professor in Literacy Studies. In that time . are grateful for the contribution Laura has made to Adelaide she also published over forty books for Writers’ Week – under her direction, it remains an event that children and adults. attracts some of the finest writers and thinkers in the literary community, dealing with ideas and issues that really matter. Fox’s award-winning and best-selling titles include Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, I invite you, our audiences from near and far, to join us for six wonderful days under the trees in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden.

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GREENHILL ROAD Crime Wave Where We Met War & Peace

It’s a great year for crime as we welcome Louise This year brings together three very different We continue to consider the complex realities of Penny and her latest Armand Gamache novel, Glass stories about people and animals. Set in a South war and peace this year. In Draw Your Weapons, Houses. This time Gamache is faced with a trial, a Australian community, Eva Hornung’s haunting novel theologian Sarah Sentilles explores the questions drug ring and mysterious stranger. Set in Ireland, The Last Garden tells the story of young man who through two men, a WWII conscientious objector Dervla McTiernan’s The Ruin sees a woman lose in his grief turns to animals for comfort. Science and Abu Ghraib guard. In his memoir Balcony Over her boyfriend to a seeming suicide by drowning writer Jim Robbins’ The Wonder of Birds, explores Jerusalem John Lyons writes a fascinating account and an investigating detective makes a connection the relationship between humans and birds and in of living in the Middle East and a searing indictment to a long ago crime. Thomas Mullen’s Darktown is particular the contributions of birds to our world. of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. In Kamila a chilling account of Jim Crow Atlanta, where two In Other Minds Peter Godfrey-Smith explores the Shamsie’s new novel Home Fire she tells a nuanced black officers investigate the case of a fatally beaten intelligent alien that is the octopus and what they story of a Muslim family in the increasingly hostile Summer black woman who was last seen with a white man. can teach us about consciousness. world of the United Kingdom. Reading

It’s time to start your Adelaide Writers’ Week reading. We have some great books on offer, and here are some suggestions across a range of titles. All should be for sale now, and if you can’t find something, don’t worry, it will be available at the Book Tent in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden during Adelaide Writers’ Week. The Self & The Story The Biographers

This year memoirs shine and offer up some Biographies are a perennial favourite and this extraordinary real life stories. Patricia Lockwood year sees some wonderful accounts of both the BOOK TENT offers a hilarious account of a year spent living with unknown and the famous. Sarah Krasnostein’s her father, a Catholic priest-by conversion and her The Trauma Cleaner, tells with great kindness the All proceeds from the book tent help fund Adelaide Writers’ Week. alarmed mother in Priestdaddy. Mandy Len Catron’s extraordinary story of Sandra Pankhurst, husband, How To Fall in Love With Anyone, is both a memoir father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, and an exploration of the influence of love stories small businesswoman, trophy wife. While in Our Where: Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden on the popular imagination. Alexandria Marzano- Man Elsewhere Thornton McCamish goes in search When: Sat 3 Mar – Thurs 9 Mar, 9am–6.30pm Lesnevich uses the real life case of a child murderer of the once very famous Australian writer and war to reveal her own story of abuse as a young child in correspondent Alan Moorehead. In The Enigmatic Thank you for your support. her often-harrowing The Fact of a Body. Mr Deakin, Judith Brett pulls back the curtain on Australia’s second Prime Minister and father of Federation.

8 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 9 Special Events Sport In Australia

Adelaide Writers’ Week Live Streaming

oin David Hill for lunch and a conversation about his recent book, The Fair and the delaide Writers’ Week has always been a community event, and it is in this spirit of Foul, an insider’s look at sport in Australia. From battles with big tobacco, to buying community that we are able to live stream the event from Monday 5 to Wednesday 7 the AFL broadcast rights for the ABC, to trying to clean up Soccer Australia, Hill March 2018. The service will run from the East Stage from 9:30am until 6 pm and is reminisces, remonstrates and considers the past, present and future of sport in Australia. absolutely free. A JJoin him for a conversation with sports journalist Tom Rehn as they consider our national obsession – the good, the bad and the ugly. In an effort to keep the community feel to the event we are inviting retirement villages, libraries and schools to offer the streaming service to their patrons, clients and students. Supported by Channel 9. Our hope is that Writers’ Week will reach a wider audience and that being part of that audience will mean that you can share ideas and stories with your friends and neighbours.

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Get ready for big fun at Kids’ Weekend – two magical days of stories, adventures, parades, paintings and performances. Story Tent Program The Story Tent with MC Sam McMahon This year the story hub of Kids’ Weekend will see an all-star line-up featuring Mem Fox, Sat 3 March Sun 4 March Jackie French, Kate and Jol Temple and the Little Big Book Club. Story Trove is also back with new story performances. 10.00am - 10.30am It’s Rhyme Time with Phil 9.30am - 10.00am It’s Rhyme Time with Mike Cummings Dumbleton Make sure you check out the blackboard as this year will see some very special surprise 10.30am - 10.50am Phil Cummings 10.00am - 10.20am Mike Dumbleton guest appearances. 10.50am - 11.00am My Favourite Story with Penny 10.20am - 10.30am My Favourite Story with Wong Rachel Khong Nest Studio Under the big blue sails Nest Studio will be helping your little artists publish a book, make 11.00am - 11.20am Mem Fox 10.30am - 10.50am Kate & Jol Temple posters and do a bit of painting. Drop by for a story and help us make the official Writers’ 11.20am - 11.50pm BREAK 10.50am - 11.20pm BREAK Week bookmark. 11.50am - 12.10pm Story Trove 11.20am - 11.50pm Story Trove Evelyn Roth’s Nylon Zoo 12.10pm - 12.30pm Kate & Jol Temple 11.50am - 12.10pm Jackie French It is time for a parade. This year Evelyn Roth brings a Quoll and an Echidna to the Garden. 12.30pm - 12.40pm My Favourite Story with 12.10pm - 12.20pm My Favourite Story with Sofie So get ready to grab a costume and be in a parade before climbing into a beautiful creature Maggie Beer Laguna for a story. 12.40pm - 1.00pm Story Trove 12.20pm - 12.40pm Story Trove Twins: Mural 1.00pm - 1.30pm BREAK 12.40pm - 1.10pm BREAK The Mural this year is all about Twins and their conversations. Join Indian designers Ragini Siruguri and Dhwani Shah to create your take on how the animals from their book Twins, 1.30pm - 1.50pm Kamishibai 1.10pm - 1.30pm Kamishibai talk to each other with stencils and speech bubbles. 1.50pm - 2.20pm Kate & Jol Temple 1.30pm - 1.50pm Kate & Jol Temple 2.20pm - 2.30pm My Favourite Story with Ali 1.50pm - 2.00pm My Favourite Story with Jane Clarke Doyle Free Nest Studio and Nylon Zoo bookings on site on the day. 2.30pm - 2.50pm Story Trove 2.00pm - 2.20pm Story Trove

12 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 13 Day One FEATURED Sat 3 Mar WRITERS Morning 1 9.30am 9.30am 10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm AUSTRALIA West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage Maggie Beer Mark Brandi Ceridwen Dovey Richard Fidler Anna George Kari Gíslason Sofie Laguna John Lyons Catherine McKinnon Dervla McTiernan Little Girls Friends The Memory Dark Heart Blind Spot Salt Fat Professor Ralph Martins Game Acid Heat Jane Rawson Anna George Alan Hollinghurst Ceridwen Dovey Teju Cole Sofie Laguna Sarah Winman Catherine Chidgey Lawrence Osborne Samin Nosrat INDIA Rachel Khong Vivek Shanbhag

MALAYSIA In Anna George’s In his new novel, The In her found novel, The In Ceridwen Dovey’s Teju Cole is a writer, Chef and writer, Samin poignant novel The Sparsholt Affair, Alan Beat of the Pendulum, novel In the Garden art historian and Nosrat, is a gifted Bernice Chauly Lone Child, an affluent Hollinghurst tells the Catherine Chidgey of the Fugitives two photographer. His teacher. Her students woman saves a little girl story of a group of chronicles a year people are united after fiction includes the have included kids, NEW ZEALAND she encounters on the friends, mostly gay of her life through a 20-year silence, he novella Every Day is teenagers and the Catherine Chidgey beach. In her harrowing men, whose lives have the language she a wealthy benefactor, for the Thief and the celebrated food writer novel, The Choke, Sofie been affected in some encountered daily. and she his one-time award-winning novel Michael Pollan. A UNITED KINGDOM Laguna tells the story way by the charming In Goodbye, Vitamin, young protégé. In Open City. He is the former Chez Panisse Alan Hollinghurst of a little girl abandoned David Sparsholt. Sarah Rachel Khong tells the Lawrence Osborne’s author of the essay cook, Nosrat comes Lawrence Osborne to a world she cannot Winman’s novel Tin story of a young woman novel Beautiful Animals, collection, Known and to Adelaide with Sarah Winman hope to understand. Man, tells the story of who returns home to two women discover a Strange Things and her revolutionary Both novels explore three friends and two help care for her father, Syrian refugee washed most recently he has cookbook, Salt Fat Acid UNITED STATES notions of class, great loves. Both of recently diagnosed with up on a Greek Island. published Blind Spot, Heat. After listening violence, longing and, in these exquisite novels Alzheimer’s. In very Join these two writers a book of photographs to her talk about food Teju Cole their own ways, hope. explore the complicated different ways, these for a conversation and accompanying movements, good Rachel Khong worlds of human love, two novels explore about greed, desire and texts. cooking and why you Samin Nosrat Chair Cath Kenneally loss and desire. family, friendship and manipulation. need salt, you’ll be Thomas Mullen memory. Chair Steven Gale happy in the kitchen like Sarah Sentilles Chair Caroline Beck Chair Michael Williams never before. Michael Farris Smith Chair Angela Savage Steven Gale is supported by the British Library, United Chair Simon Wilkinson Catherine Chidgey is Kingdom. supported by Creative New Zealand & the Publishers Association of New Zealand.

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Lost Things Brain Food Invented American Adelaide Small Towns War & Peace Saga Land Histories South Festival Bernice Chauly Maggie Beer Awards Michelle de Kretser Professor Ralph Catherine McKinnon Thomas Mullen Mark Brandi John Lyons Richard Fidler Vivek Shanbhag Martins Jane Rawson Michael Farris Smith Dervla McTiernan Sarah Sentilles Kári Gíslason

In Bernice Chauly’s There are few adages This session brings From the rich tradition The winners of the In Wimmera Mark In his memoir, Balcony Richard Fidler and Kári novel Once We Were as familiar as ‘you together two writers that is Southern 2018 Adelaide Festival Brandi tells the story Over Jerusalem, John Gíslason are good There a journalist finds are what you eat’ and who have taken literature come Awards for Literature of two boys growing Lyons chronicles the friends who share a herself in the Reformasi in their new book moments in Australian writers exploring will be announced up in a small town that six years he lived in passion for the sagas movement in Kuala Maggie’s Recipe for history and imagined different aspects including Fiction, harbours a secret. Israel and, in doing of Iceland. Filled with Lumpur. In her novel Life, the celebrated them into stories of of the American Children’s Literature, In The Ruin, Dervla so, offers a scathing the rough and tumble The Life to Come, cook teams up blood, bonds and South. With Darktown Non-Fiction, Young McTiernan’s small account of the of the Middle Ages – Michelle de Kretser with an Alzheimer’s memory. In Storyland and Lightning Men, Adult Fiction, John Bray town is in Ireland, region’s treatment blood feuds, fearless explores a community researcher, Professor Catherine McKinnon Thomas Mullen Poetry and Premier’s where a young of the Palestinians. women, murder – the scattered from , Ralph Martins, to connects Flinders’ writes crime novels awards. The winners doctor’s partner is In her book, Draw sagas are amongst Paris and Sri Lanka. explore why diet voyage to Illawarra to set in pre-Civil of the Jill Blewett found in a frozen Your Weapons, Sarah our greatest stories. In Ghachar Ghochar matters and how it a 19th century farm Rights Atlanta. While Playwright’s award river: an apparent Sentilles explores This fascination takes Vivek Shanbhag tells can be both healthy and then well into the with The Fighter and the Wakefield suicide. Join them for her response to Fidler and Gíslason the story of family and delicious. No future. In From the and Desperation Press Unpublished a conversation about photographs of Abu on an epic journey in Bangalore who matter your stage of Wreck, Jane Rawson Road, Michael Farris Manuscript award, as the uniquely sinister Ghraib. Together of their own across happen upon good life, or your skills in the connects the sinking Smith explores the well as the recipients place that is the small these two thoughtful Iceland in search of fortune. Join them for kitchen, this session of the steamship hardscrabble worlds of the Barbara town. writers explore making both sagas and a a conversation about will educate and Admella with a of the white poor. Hanrahan, Max Fatchen war and the principle family mystery. loss, displacement inspire. creature seeking Join them for a and Tungkununga Chair Steven Gale of peace. and rapidly changing refuge on Earth. conversation about Pintyanthi fellowships worlds. Chair David Sly a richly complicated will also be announced. Chair Peter Mares Chair Amy T place. Chair Laura Kroetsch Matthews Chair Victoria Purman

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ARGENTINA Samanta Schweblin

AUSTRALIA Felicity Castagna Rebekah Clarkson Michelle de Kretser A Hundred Glass Houses The Animals Murder/ Goodbye, Home Fires Ceridwen Dovey Small Memoir Vitamin Clive Hamilton Lessons Louise Penny Ceridwen Dovey Kamila Shamsie Ashley Hay Eva Hornung Alexandria Marzano- Rachel Khong Eva Hornung Fiona McFarlane Lesnevich Sofie Laguna Ashley Hay John Lyons Fiona McFarlane Ashley Hay is Louise Penny is Three writers explore With The Fact of a In Rachel Khong’s With her new novel Wendy Orr the author of the the author of the the relationship Body, lawyer turned stunning debut novel, Home Fires, Kamila novels The Body best-selling Armand between humans and writer Alexandria Goodbye, Vitamin, Shamsie has created Tim Rogers in the Clouds, The Gamache novels. animals. In Ceridwen Marzano-Lesnevich a young woman, a haunting re-telling Railwayman’s Wife Her most recent Dovey’s collection has written an utterly Ruth, returns home of Antigone. Her CANADA and most recently Glass Houses, sees Only the Animals, the compelling account to help her mother Antigone is Aneeka, Louise Penny A Hundred Small Gamache’s tiny souls of ten animals of her experience of care for her father, a Muslim girl living in Lessons. This new village under a threat tell their story. In Eva a death row case and recently diagnosed London. When she and UNITED KINGDOM novel takes place which begins as a Hornung’s The Last its retrial. In part what with Alzheimer’s. her twin discover their A. C. Grayling over a single hot cloaked man takes Garden a boy cohabits makes this book so Written as a diary, father died while en Kamila Shamsie summer in Brisbane. It up silent residence with horses and extraordinary are the Ruth’s account sits route to Guantanamo, tells the story of two in the village green. chooks after the loss painful memories of against one she finds her brother leaves to UNITED STATES women and a single Meanwhile in of his parents. In Fiona her childhood that written by her father work for ISIS. Once house. Beautifully Montreal, Gamache McFarlane’s The Night butt up against the as he chronicled her banished, it is up to Teju Cole observed, it is about is giving witness at Guest a tiger takes fate of a convicted early life. Together Aneeka to find a way Rachel Khong the moments and what may be the up residence with a child killer. Smart, the stories create a to bring him home. Alexander Maksik memories that make trial that ends his woman living alone. generous and utterly wry and generous Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich us human. career. Ambitious and compelling. meditation on Chair Georgina Sarah Sentilles thrilling, this is Penny Chair Laura Kroetsch memory. Godwin Chair Victoria at her best. Chair Steven Gale Purman This session is supported Chair Rebekah Chair Robert Gott by the Copyright Agency’s Clarkson Cultural Fund. Supported by Canada Council for the Arts.

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Free Speech Kinds of The Book Words Boat People Middle East Democracy Detours in a Chinese Madness That Changed & Images Memoir and its Crisis World My Life

Clive Hamilton Alexander Maksik Rebekah Clarkson Teju Cole Felicity Castagna John Lyons A. C. Grayling Tim Rogers Samanta Schweblin Sofie Laguna Sarah Sentilles Michelle de Kretser Wendy Orr

In 2017 the In Alexander Maksik’s We all have a book that Writer and In her novel No More Award-winning Prompted by Brexit and In his memoir Detours, international media was novel Shelter in Place we love but for writers photographer Teju Boats, Felicity Castagna journalist John Lyons the US election, A. C. Tim Rogers writes full of stories about a young man begins to that relationship can Cole has written widely explores the tensions spent six years Grayling considered with grace and insight the spread beyond suffer the symptoms of be that much more on photography, surrounding new covering the Middle why the institutions as he explores the China’s borders of the bipolar disorder after complicated. This politics and his own refugees through East. One result is of democracy are complicated man Communist Party’s his mother kills a man session brings together experiences, most an Italian migrant his memoir Balcony seemingly unable to that he is – and in this campaign against with a hammer. In Fever novelist and short recently in Blind Spot. convinced he can help Over Jerusalem, an protect themselves. account the emphasis free speech. Clive Dream by Samanta story writer Rebekah Sarah Sentilles is a stop the boats. In the account of both life The result is Democracy is on the man almost Hamilton became Schweblin a woman lies Clarkson, Miles Franklin writer and theologian novel The Life to Come, with his wife and son and Its Crisis, where more than the musician. a victim of it when in a hospital bed telling winning novelist and who in Draw Your Michelle de Kretser as well as a searing Grayling looks at history That said, this is a book his book examining a young boy a story that children’s writer Sofie Weapons weaves explores the stories indictment of 50 years in an effort to make about a musician, so the influence of the sounds like a dream. Laguna, and children’s together a story that we tell about ourselves of Israeli occupation sense of today’s threats there is a dark journey Chinese government in In both novels the book writer Wendy considers photography, and the ways we invent of the West Bank. His to representational here – drink, fights and Australia was dropped characters are unable Orr for a conversation Abu Ghraib, and peace. both the past and the book is a wonderful democracy. Compelling real regret. by his publisher for to escape the story. about just that book. Join two of our most future. Join them for blend of the delights and often deeply fear of retaliation from original thinkers for a a conversation about of everyday life and disturbing, Grayling’s Chair Chris Flynn Beijing. In this session Chair Caroline Beck Chair Adam Suckling conversation about immigration, identity an insightful political message is ultimately he exposes the full words and images. and human folly. commentary. one of hope. scope of the threat. This session is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Chair Geordie Chair Angela Savage Chair Jon Jureidini Chair Peter Mares Chair Tory Sheperd Cultural Fund. Williamson This session is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. 20 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 21 Day Three Mon 5 March Morning 3 FEATURED 9.30am 9.30am 10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm WRITERS West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage

ARGENTINA Samanta Schweblin

AUSTRALIA Pamela Brown Mem Fox Jackie French George Megalogenis Tin Man Democracy Missing Up Draw Your Poet First, Making Fiona McFarlane and Populism Weapons Then... History Dervla McTiernan Sarah Winman Pamela Brown Jennifer Mills Sarah Schmidt A. C. Grayling Sarah Sentilles Patricia Lockwood Thomas Mullen George Megalogenis Ashleigh Young Sarah Schmidt CANADA Cory Doctorow The author of When God In Democracy Written over three Sarah Sentilles’ Both Patricia Lockwood In See What Have I Louise Penny Was A Rabbit and A Year and its Crisis AC years, Pam Brown’s extraordinary book and Ashleigh Young Done, Sarah Schmidt of Marvellous Ways has Grayling makes a new collection of Draw Your Weapons began their writing offers a thrilling new NEW ZEALAND recently published Tin compelling case for poems Missing Up is a is a meditation on war, lives as poets. Both look at Lizzie Borden, a Ashleigh Young Man, an exquisite love why the institutions reflection on the peace, art history, have produced terrific young woman famously story about two boys of representative absurdities of photography, violence books of non-fiction, charged with murder NORWAY and a girl. At the heart democracy are materialism, one that and faith. It tells the for Lockwood a memoir in 1892. In Darktown of the novel are the seemingly unable to begins in the everyday story of two men, one a Priestdaddy and for and Lightning Men Maja Lunde childhood friends and cope with the rise – a fridge, a bus stop, conscientious objector Young a collection Thomas Mullen creates one-time lovers Ellis and of populism. With surf music on the radio. from World War II and of essays, Can You two ‘Negro Officers’ UNITED KINGDOM Michael. As the novel Australia’s Second Witty, urbane and the second a soldier Tolerate This? The negotiating the fierce A. C. Grayling opens we meet the Chance George optimistic her who served at Abu former is an hilarious restrictions of Jim Crow Lawrence Osborne widowed Ellis looking Megalogenis makes a collection is lyrical, Ghraib. Through these account of Lockwood’s laws in 1950s Atlanta. Sarah Winman back, longing for his lost case for how Australia political and a stories and others, return to live with her Join these two writers loves. will survive the era formidable read. she makes a quietly parents, and the latter for a conversation UNITED STATES of Trump. Join them compelling argument a clever coming-of-age about reinventing the Patricia Lockwood Chair Kate De Goldi for a wide-ranging Chair Peter Rose for peace. story told through one past. Thomas Mullen conversation on writer’s preoccupations. Sarah Sentilles democracy at home Chair Jon Jureidini Chair Robert Gott Michael Farris Smith and abroad. Chair Ashley Hay

Chair Tory Shepherd Ashleigh Young is supported by Creative New Zealand & the Publishers Association of New Zealand.

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Dedication Strange Honorary Desperation MUD Club Beautiful Dust Devils Into the Houses Wombat Road Prize Animals Woods Mem Fox Cory Doctorow Fiona McFarlane Jackie French Michael Farris Smith Lawrence Osborne Maja Lunde Dervla McTiernan Samanta Schweblin Jennifer Mills Louise Penny

For over 34 years, In Fever Dreams, Jackie French is an Michael Farris Smith The MUD Club is Lawrence Osborne Cory Doctorow’s novel Beware what lurks in children have been Samanta Schweblin’s award-winning writer is the award-winning an Adelaide-based has been described Walkaway is about isolated places. Dervla reading Mem Fox’s first novel to appear for children and adults author of the novels philanthropic group as a modern Graham tribes of people who McTiernan’s The Ruin iconic creation Possum in English, a woman of all ages. She is an Desperation Road, who raise money to Greene. His novels are attempt to walk away tells the story of a Magic. Today, Mem Fox in hospital tells the historian, ecologist and Rivers, and most send Australian writers set in exotic locations from society. Jennifer suspicious suicide is the award-winning story of a fantastical honorary wombat. Her recently The Fighter. to literary festivals and tell the stories Mills’ novel, Dyschronia and a twenty-year-old author of over 40 encounter with a many award-winning What his books share including Adelaide of wealthy white is about a town that overdose in country books, most recently neighbour. In Fiona books include Diary of is the broken-down Writers’ Week. This Europeans trapped in awakes to find the sea Ireland. In Louise I’m Australian Too. In McFarlane’s The Night a Wombat, A Waltz for landscape of the new venture, the MUD difficult circumstances has disappeared. Maja Penny’s Glass Houses, addition to her writing, Guest an elderly woman Matilda, and Pennies for American South, the Literary Prize is a prize often of their own Lunde’s The History a hooded figure Fox is a long-time believes there is a tiger Hitler. Her most recent hardscrabble lives of for a debut novel by making. His novels of Bees is a novel that takes up residence in advocate for literacy. in her house. In both books are Facing the its inhabitants and the an Australian writer. include The Forgiven, chronicles a history Chief Superintendent novels the women are Flame, Barney and the inevitable violence of The aim of the prize The Ballad of a Small of beekeeping. Join Gamache’s home Chair Ruth Starke unsure what to believe, Secret of the French its men. Described at is both to celebrate Player, Hunters in the them for a conversation village in Quebec. Join both are fearful, and Spies and The Lily and times as Southern noir, and encourage fiction Dark and most recently about our coming them for a conversation both inhabit lonely the Rose. Farris Smith’s prose is writers. This session Beautiful Animals. worlds. about corruption and landscapes. spare and beautiful. will see the prize crime in isolated places. Chair Danielle Clode announced and will also Chair Georgina Godwin Chair Angela Meyer Chair Steven Gale Chair Chris Flynn feature a conversation Chair Kerryn with the winner. Cory Doctorow is supported Goldsworthy by the Canada Council for the Arts. Maja Lunde is supported Louise Penny is supported by by Norwegian Literature Canada Council for the Arts. Abroad/NORLA

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West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage 9.30am Little Girls Anna George & Sofie Laguna Friends Alan Hollinghurst & Sarah Winman 9.30am The Life to Come Michelle de Kretser The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst

The Memory Game Catherine Chidgey & The Burbs Melanie Cheng & Rebekah 10.45am Dark Heart Ceridwen Dovey & Lawrence Osborne DAY 10.45am Darktown Thomas Mullen DAY Rachel Khong Clarkson F The Self in the Story Sarah Krasnostein, O 12 pm Blind Spot Teju Cole Salt Fat Acid Heat Samin Nosrat 12 pm Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich & Ashleigh Young The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver Lost Things Bernice Chauly, Michelle de O N 1.15pm Brain Food Maggie Beer & Prof Ralph Martins 1.15pm Krester & Vivek Shanbhag U Faulty Pilgrims Laleh Khadivi Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag E Invented Histories Catherine McKinnon 2.30pm American South Thomas Mullen & Michael Farris Smith 2.30pm Whipbird Robert Drewe On Bees & Birds Maja Lunde & Harriet McKnight & Jane Rawson Sat R 3 Mar 3.45pm Berlin Stories Catherine Chidgey & David

3.45pm 10am-3pm Kids’ Weekend My Sister Rosa Justine Larbalestier Adelaide Festival Awards Small Towns Mark Brandi & Dervla McTiernan Tue Foenkinos 6 Mar 5 pm War & Peace John Lyons & Sarah Sentilles Saga Land Richard Fidler & Kári Gíslason 5 pm Poetry Reading Craphound Cory Doctorow

9.30am A Hundred Small Lessons Ashley Hay Glass Houses Louise Penny 9.30am Moorehead Thornton McCamish Mr Deakin Judith Brett

The Animals Ceridwen Dovey, Eva 10.45am Murder/Memoir Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich 10.45am The Hazards Sarah Holland-Batt Charlotte David Foenkinos Hornung & Fiona McFarlane DAY DAY Homegrown Laleh Khadivi & Kamila 12 pm F 12 pm Shelter in Place Alexander Maksik T Goodbye, Vitamin Rachel Khong Home Fires Kamila Shamsie Shamsie 1.15pm Free Speech in a Chinese World Kinds of Madness Alexander Maksik & Samanta I 1.15pm Taboo Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood W Clive Hamilton Schweblin The Book That Changed My Life Rebekah V Seeking Refuge Claire G Coleman & Jane O 2.30pm Words & Images Teju Cole & Sarah Sentilles 2.30pm Natural Wonders Peter Godfrey-Smith & Jim Robbins Clarkson, Sofie Laguna & Wendy Orr Rawson Sun E Boat People Felicity Castagna & Michelle Griffith Review: Colonialism Judith Brett, 4 Mar 3.45pm Middle East Memoir John Lyons 3.45pm Call of the Reed Warbler Charles Massy de Kretser Wed Bernice Chauly & Graeme Smith Kids’ Weekend 9.30am-2.30pm Kids’ Weekend 7 Mar 5 pm Democracy and its Crisis A. C. Grayling Detours Tim Rogers 5 pm Miss Muriel Matters Robert Wainwright Robert Dessaix Robert Dessaix

Democracy and Populism 9.30am Tin Man Sarah Winman 9.30am Mr Showbiz Stephen Dando-Collins Victoria Julia Baird DAY A. C. Grayling & George Megalogenis T 10.45am Missing Up Pamela Brown Draw Your Weapons Sarah Sentilles DAY 10.45am The Vandemonian War Nick Brodie The Trauma Cleaner Sarah Krasnostein

Poet First, Then... Patricia Lockwood & 12 pm Anaesthesia Kate Cole-Adams How To Fall In Love Mandy Len Catron H 12 pm Making History Thomas Mullen & Sarah Schmidt S Ashleigh Young R I 1.15pm Lost in Time Eva Hornung & Jennifer Mills Woman of Substances Jenny Valentish 1.15pm Dedication Mem Fox Beautiful Animals Lawrence Osborne E X 2.30pm Other Minds Peter Godfrey-Smith Beyond the Veil Manal al-Sharif & Amal Awad 2.30pm Honorary Wombat Jackie French Desperation Road Michael Farris Smith E Thu 8 Mar 3.45pm The Wonder of Birds Jim Robbins What Is Lost Sarah Holland-Batt & Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 3.45pm MUD Club Prize Strange House Fiona McFarlane & Samanta Schweblin Mon 5 Mar 5 pm Dust Devils Cory Doctorow, Maja Lunde & Danger Music Eddie Ayres Love and Tartan Alexander McCall Smith 5 pm Into the Woods Dervla McTiernan & Louise Penny Jennifer Mills

26 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 27 Day Four Tue 6 Mar FEATURED Morning 4 WRITERS 9.30am 9.30am 10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage AUSTRALIA Melanie Cheng Rebekah Clarkson Michelle de Kretser Robert Drewe Alison Flett Nelson Hedditch Sarah Krasnostein Justine Larbalestier Harriet McKnight Rachel Mead The Life The Sparsholt The Burbs Darktown The Self in the The Rob Walker Manal Younus to Come Affair Story Poisonwood Melanie Cheng Thomas Mullen Bible CANADA Michelle de Kretser Alan Hollinghurst Rebekah Clarkson Sarah Krasnostein, Alexandria Cory Doctorow Marzano-Lesnevich Barbara Kingsolver Ashleigh Young FRANCE David Foenkinos With her first novel From wartime Oxford This session brings Thomas Mullen has Some of today’s Barbara Kingsolver has since her Miles Franklin to today’s London Alan together two writers written about the flu most inventive new been called one of the INDIA winning Questions Hollinghurst’s new who explore the twilight epidemic, dystopian writing is nonfiction most important writers Vivek Shanbhag of Travel, Michelle novel, The Sparsholt world of the suburb. In futures and Depression with the writer in the of the 20th century. Her de Kretser returns Affair tells the story Barking Dogs, Rebekah era bank robbers. But story. Sometimes that many books include NEW ZEALAND to Adelaide with The of a group of friends, Clarkson offers a wry most recently he has presence is largely as The Poisonwood Catherine Chidgey Life To Come. Set in mostly gay men, who and often intimate been writing about the an observer as in Sarah Bible, Prodigal Ashleigh Young Sydney, Paris and Sri have some connection look at a regional town Jim Crow era Atlanta Krasnostein’s The Summer, The Lacuna Lanka, this new novel is to the charming David in transformation. In and the story of two Trauma Cleaner, or it and most recently NORWAY about history, houses, Sparsholt. Told in Australia Day, Melanie black men new to the can be more intimate as Flight Behaviour. Her and the stories we tell five parts, the novel Cheng explores a police force. The books in Alexandria Marzano- experiences from living Maja Lunde ourselves. Told through tells the story of richly diverse group of Darktown and Lightning Lesnevich’s The Fact all over the world have a handful of characters, three generations of characters, all longing Men are both crime of a Body or Ashleigh informed her writings UNITED KINGDOM the novel is wry, wise Sparsholts, and hinges to belong. Join them for novels and a startling Young’s Can You as has her deep Alan Hollinghurst and often very funny. on an affair that takes a conversation about examination on the Tolerate This? commitment to the place in 1966. the burbs. eve of the Civil Rights environment. UNITED STATES Chair Georgina Godwin movement. Chair Laura Kroetsch Laleh Khadivi Chair Angela Meyer Chair Kate De Goldi Chair Claire Nichols Barbara Kingsolver Chair Steven Gale Ashleigh Young is supported Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich by Creative New Zealand & Supported by the Consulate Thomas Mullen the Publishers Association of of the United States. New Zealand.

28 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 29 Day Four Tue 6 Mar Afternoon 4 1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 5.00pm 5.00pm West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage

Faulty Pilgrims Ghachar Whipbird On Bees Berlin Stories My Sister Poetry Craphound Ghochar & Birds Rosa Reading

Cory Doctorow Laleh Khadivi Vivek Shanbhag Robert Drewe Maja Lunde Catherine Chidgey Justine Larbalestier Alison Flett Harriet McKnight David Foenkinos Nelson Hedditch Rachel Mead Iranian born American Vivek Shanbhag is Set at a winery in One time metaphor Catherine Chidgey’s Author of Liar, Zombies Rob Walker Cory Doctorow is a Laleh Khadivi is the one of India’s most Victoria, Robert Drewe’s for sex, the birds and novel The Wish Child vs. Unicorns and How Manal Younus science fiction writer, author of an incredible celebrated writers, and new novel, Whipbird, bees are increasingly tells the story of to Ditch Your Fairy, journalist, blogger, trilogy of novels that with the translation tells the story of the a harbinger of doom. two families living in Justine Larbalestier’s creative commons include The Age of of his novel Ghachar Cleary family. The event In Harriet McKnight’s Hitler’s Germany. Told most recent novel is My Each year Adelaide activist and co-editor of Orphans, The Walking Ghochar we can now is a family reunion novel Rain Birds, by children, the novel Sister Rosa, a chilling Writers’ Week hosts Boing Boing. His most and A Good Country. read him in English. His celebrating 160 years two women in a explores the war from story about seventeen- a poetry reading with recent books are the Together the novels brilliant novel tells the since the arrival of the remote community behind the domestic year-old Che and his Peter Goldsworthy. The YA novels Walkaway tell the story of three story of a poor family first Irish relation – think find themselves at curtain of those trying psychopathic younger event is intended to pay and Homeland, the generations of Kurdish who experience sudden grievances and grog. odds over a flock of to survive. David sister Rosa. By turns a homage to the event’s adult novel In Real Life, Iranian men coming-of- wealth, only to discover Wonderfully satiric and cockatoos. In Maja Foenkinos’ Charlotte reflection on morality, long association with and the nonfiction age. The last of these that wealth is not epic in scope, the novel Lunde’s novel The is an imaginary faith, identity and race, poets and to celebrate business book is a young man growing always as it seems. Join has great fun with class, History of Bees, a biography-as-novel of the novel is a riveting contemporary poetry. Information Doesn’t up in California, who, in him in conversation ambition and other century of beekeepers Charlotte Salomon, a read by a writer well This year’s poets Want To Be Free. Join spite of his father’s best about the new India. human foibles. is lost to the future. For German Jewish artist versed in the unreliable include Alison Flett, him for a conversation efforts, is becoming both writers, nature is who died at Auschwitz. narrator. Nelson Hedditch, about art, writing, radicalised. Chair Michael Williams Chair Caroline Beck a place to consider our Rachel Mead, Manal the environment, future. Chair Geordie Chair Scott Westerfeld Younus and Rob Walker. publishing, and Chair Jon Jureidini Williamson Join them for readings technology. Chair Jane Rawson that will be followed by Catherine Chidgey is a book signing. Chair Chris Flynn Maja Lunde is supported by supported by Creative New the Norwegian Literature Zealand & the Publishers Host Peter Supported by the Canada Abroad/NORLA Association of New Zealand Goldsworthy Council for the Arts. David Foenkinos is supported by Institut Français.

30 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 31 Day Five Wed 7 Mar Morning 5 FEATURED 9.30am 9.30am 10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm WRITERS West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage

AUSTRALIA Judith Brett Claire G Coleman Robert Dessaix Peter Godfrey-Smith Sarah Holland-Batt Charles Massy Thornton McCamish Moorehead Mr Deakin The Hazards Charlotte Homegrown Shelter in Jane Rawson Kim Scott Place Graeme Smith Thornton McCamish Judith Brett Sarah Holland-Batt David Foenkinos Laleh Khadivi Robert Wainwright Kamila Shamsie Alexander Maksik FRANCE David Foenkinos In the not too distant As he emerges in Judith Sarah Holland-Batt is David Foenkinos is a Among the great fears Alexander Maksik is the past Alan Moorehead Brett’s biography, The quickly becoming one writer and scriptwriter of contemporary author of You Deserve MALAYSIA was a famous Australian Enigmatic Mr Deakin, of the most important whose novels in culture is that of the Nothing, A Marker Bernice Chauly writer, an inspiration Australia’s second poets of her generation. English include homegrown terrorist. to Measure Drift and to Robert Hughes Prime Minister was Her collections to date Delicacy and the Prix In both Laleh Khadivi’s most recently, Shelter UNITED KINGDOM and Clive James, and solitary and religious; include the award- Renaudot winning A Good Country and in in Place. In this new Kamila Shamsie a war reporter who he found the business winning Aria and more Charlotte. Charlotte Kamila Shamsie’s Home novel Maksik tells the wrote bestselling of politics distasteful recently The Hazards. is a heartbreaking Fire, young Muslim story of a young man, UNITED STATES histories. And then he but he made it his life’s Her often-haunting account of the life of men are radicalised, whose life explodes Laleh Khadivi disappeared. Thornton work. Brett’s biography poems take up subjects German Jewish artist the former in California as his mother beats a Patricia Lockwood McCamish is the sheds new light on as diverse as history, Charlotte Salomon, who the later in London. stranger to death with Alexander Maksik author of Our Man the gifted man who art and haunted was killed at 26 while Both are good boys, a hammer. Join him for Jim Robbins Elsewhere: In Search helped create modern landscapes here in pregnant at Auschwitz, both have families a conversation about of Alan Moorehead, a Australia. Join her for a Australia and around leaving behind over determined to protect love, memory, madness must read for those conversation about the the world. 700 paintings produced them, and both choose and ruin. interested in Australian public and the private as an autobiography. to believe. literary history. man. Chair Peter Rose Foenkinos’s novel Chair Geordie comes from her work Chair Michael Williams Williamson Chair Steven Gale Chair Kerryn and his own obsession. Goldsworthy Chair Caroline Beck

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32 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 33 Day Five Wed 7 Mar Afternoon 5 1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 5.00pm 5.00pm West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage

Taboo Priestdaddy Seeking Natural Griffith Review: Call of the Miss Muriel Robert Refuge Wonders Commonwealth Reed Warbler Matters Dessaix Kim Scott Patricia Lockwood Claire G Coleman Peter Godfrey-Smith Judith Brett Charles Massy Robert Dessaix Robert Wainwright Jane Rawson Jim Robbins Bernice Chauly Graeme Smith

Kim Scott is the author When poet Patricia In Claire G Coleman’s In Other Minds: The With the With Call of the Reed Born in the Adelaide Days are to be happy of the Miles Franklin Lockwood and her novel Terra Nullius, she Octopus and the Commonwealth Games Warbler, farmer and suburb of Bowden in, not just to fill with winning novels Benang husband went, by creates a world where Evolution of Intelligent on the Gold Coast writer Charles Massy and educated at the work. In The Pleasures and That Deadman necessity, to live the Settlers are eager Life Peter Godfrey- in April, the Griffith is calling for a new University of Adelaide, of Leisure Robert Dance. With Taboo, he with her parents, to settle the savages. Smith considers what Review brings together way of farming and Muriel Matters later Dessaix invites us to remains in Noongar they returned to the In Jane Rawson’s From we can learn from a host of writers to growing food. His is a became one of London’s think imaginatively about country. Set in the Church. Lockwood’s the Wreck a mysterious one of earth’s most consider the future of personal story, one that most famous suffragists. how we spend our free present, Taboo tells father is a Lutheran creature survives the remarkable creatures. the Commonwealth. sees a chemical-using Her career highlights time - and how to get the story of a group priest converted to 1859 sinking of the In The Wonder of Birds This session features farmer transformed include chaining herself more of it. Join him of Noongar people Catholicism, and Admella and attaches Jim Robbins examines biographer Judith Brett into a radical-ecologist to the British House of for a stimulating and who return to the site Lockwood’s chronicle herself to a young our unique relationship on Deakin, novelist and farmer. Part memoir, Commons, a stint in thoughtful conversation of a massacre for the of the year they boy. Join them for a with these wild poet Bernice Chauly part exposé of Holloway Prison and about dog-walking, opening of a ‘Peace spent together is conversation about creatures and what it on the Batang Kali industrial agriculture, a tour of England in a travel, hang-gliding, Park’. insanely funny and how the fantastical is birds bring to us and Massacre and writer Massy’s book is a call to horse-drawn caravan. reading and simply doing brilliantly observed. helps make sense of the planet. and researcher Graeme arms for Australia and Join award-winning nothing as a tonic in our Chair Jane Gleeson- This unsparing and Australia’s colonial past. Smith on China’s the world. biographer Robert too busy, too shallow White affectionate story Chair Ashley Hay influence in the Pacific. Wainwright for a world. involves, among other Chair Kate Cole-Adams Chair Tania Meyer conversation about a things, a priest who Chair Julianne Schultz ‘daring Australian girl’. Chair Georgina Godwin plays guitar in his underwear. Chair Sandy Verschoor

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34 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 35 Day Six Thu 8 March Morning 6 FEATURED 9.30am 9.30am 10.45am 10.45am 12.00pm 12.00pm WRITERS West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage

AUSTRALIA Manal al-Sharif Amal Awad Eddie Ayres Julia Baird Nick Brodie Kate Cole-Adams Stephen Dando-Collins Mr Showbiz Victoria The The Trauma Anaesthesia How to Fall Peter Godfrey-Smith Vandemonian Cleaner in Love Sarah Holland-Batt Stephen Julia Baird War Eva Hornung Dando-Collins Kate Cole-Adams Sarah Krasnostein Sarah Krasnostein Mandy Len Catron Jennifer Mills Nick Brodie Jenny Valentish

CANADA Stephen Dando-Collins’ Crowned Queen at 18, Nick Brodie is a writer The subtitle of Sarah One of the most Mandy Len Catron’s Mandy Len Catron Mr Showbiz, tells Victoria would go on to and historian. He is Krasnostein’s brilliant astonishing facts in essay ‘To Fall in Love the story of Robert rule for an astounding the author of 1787: book The Trauma Kate Cole-Adams’ with Anyone, Do This’ MARSHALL ISLANDS Stigwood. Born in Port 64 years. She would The Lost Chapters of Cleaner about Sandra Anaesthesia, is that was one of the most Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner Pirie, Stigwood left marry happily, have nine Australia’s Beginnings. Pankhurst reads One doctors don’t actually read articles in the New Adelaide for the UK in children, be widowed More recently he Woman’s Extraordinary know how anaesthetics York Times in 2015. UNITED KINGDOM the 1950s and by the and, by the time of has published The Life in Death, Decay & works. Cole-Adams It lead to two TED Alexander McCall Smith 1970s was managing her Diamond Jubilee, Vandemonian War, an Disaster. The title could book is a fascinating Talks and her recent the careers of the Bee reigned over 400 million account of the largely go on to add – husband mix of reporting, book How To Fall in UNITED STATES Gees, Cream, Eric subjects. Hers was a untold story of how and father, drag queen, medical history, Love with Anyone: Jim Robbins Clapton and went on to reign that saw the rise the British colonial gender reassignment philosophy and memoir. A Memoir in Essays. produce films including of movements including government occupied patient, sex worker, At its heart is the idea of Catron examines the Gallipoli, Saturday Night suffrage, anti-poverty Van Diemen’s Land by small businesswoman, consciousness not only power of romantic Fever and Grease. Join and anti-slavery. deploying regimental trophy wife and deeply under anaesthesia but myths and their real life Dando-Collins for a Join Julia Baird for a soldiers and special compassionate human in our everyday lives. implications. conversation about an conversation about forces, armed convicts being. Krasnostein’s What she discovers will entertainment legend. her timely biography and mercenaries. book is also about appeal to professionals Chair Victoria Purman Victoria: The Queen. hoarders and trauma and patients alike. Chair David Sly Chair Jane Gleeson- cleaners and loneliness Supported by the Canada Chair Caroline Beck White and hope. Chair Ashley Hay Council for the Arts.

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36 adelaidefestival.com.au ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 37 Day Six Thu 8 Mar Afternoon 6 1.15pm 1.15pm 2.30pm 2.30pm 3.45pm 3.45pm 5.00pm 5.00pm West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage West Stage East Stage

Lost in Time Woman of Other Minds Beyond the The Wonder What is Lost Danger Music Love and Substances Veil of Birds Tartan Eva Hornung Peter Godfrey-Smith Sarah Holland-Batt Eddie Ayres Jennifer Mills Jenny Valentish Manal al-Sharif Jim Robbins Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner Alexander McCall Amal Awad Smith

Eva Hornung’s novel Across the developed With Other Minds: In 2011 Manal al-Sharif Birds are everywhere. In Sarah Holland- In 2014 Emma Ayres Alexander McCall The Last Garden world substance use the Octopus and the was jailed for driving a We watch them, keep Batt’s collection The was depressed Smith, one of the tells the story of a among women is on Evolution of Intelligent car in Saudi Arabia. Her them as pets, we Hazards we encounter and so quit radio world’s most beloved young man living in the rise, and in Woman Life, philosopher memoir, Daring to Drive, even talk to them. a convict transported and embarked on a and prolific writers a community in exile of Substances, Jenny and scuba diver is an account of her For generations they to Botany Bay, six men surprising path to returns to Adelaide with whose father kills his Valentish explores Peter Godfrey-Smith arrest and her political have helped us as we lost in the Mekong, a salvation – teaching three new books. Join wife and then himself, women’s addiction and invites us to consider campaign. Australian- learned to fly, they bestiary and a lost love. cello to orphans and him for conversation and the young man’s how those experiences the octopus, one born Amal Awad set provide us with food In Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s street kids in Kabul. about misadventures subsequent experience are different from of Earth’s most out to explore the and clothing and they collection Iep Jaltok His memoir Danger in Italy with My Italian of grief. In Jennifer men’s. Drawing on intelligent creatures. By lives of Arab women in help us understand the we encounter voices Music chronicles Ayres’ Bulldozer, join Pat Mills’ novel Dyschronia neuroscience, she comparing us to one of Australia and the Middle human brain, body and protesting colonialism, chaotic joy of teaching Macgregor at the an isolated seaside explains why other self- our most remarkable East, the result was mind. With The Wonder a rising sea, American Afghan children and an Elephant House in A community awakes destructive behaviours animal relatives, Beyond Veiled Clichés. of Birds, Jim Robbins nuclear testing. Join eventual decision to Time of Love and Tartan to find the sea has – eating disorders, Godfrey Smith sheds Join them as they invites us into the realm these two poets for return to Australia to and then spend some disappeared. Join compulsive shopping new light on both. You consider the worlds of these extraordinary a conversation about begin transitioning from time with Precious them for a conversation and high-risk sex – are won’t look at dinner the of contemporary Arab creatures. the damages we do female to male. Ramotswe in The House about time, place and often interchangeable same way again. women. to ourselves and the of Unexpected Sisters. loss. with substance use. Chair Michael Williams natural world. Chair Georgina Godwin Hers is both a personal Chair Danielle Clode Chair Lur Alghurabi Chair David Sly Chair Rebekah and timely book. Chair Jill Jones Clarkson Chair Farrin Foster

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al-Sharif, Manal 38 French, Jackie 13, 24 Mead, Rachael 31 Government Partners Awad, Amal 38 George, Anna 14 Megalogenis, George 22 Ayres, Eddie 39 Gíslason, Kári 17 Mills, Jennifer 25, 38 Baird, Julia 36 Godfrey-Smith, Peter 34, 38 Mullen, Thomas 16, 23, 29 Beer, Maggie 13, 16 Grayling, A. C. 21, 22 Nosrat, Samin 15 Brandi, Mark 17 Hamilton, Clive 20 Orr, Wendy 20 Brett, Judith 32, 35 Hay, Ashley 18 Osborne, Lawrence 15, 25 Major Partners Brodie, Nick 37 Hedditch, Nelson 31 Penny, Louise 18, 25 Brown, Pamela 23 Hill, David 11 Rawson, Jane 16, 34 Castagna, Felicity 21 Holland-Batt, Sarah 33, 39 Robbins, Jim 34, 39 Catron, Mandy Len 37 Hollinghurst, Alan 14, 28 Rogers, Tim 21 Chauly, Bernice 16, 35 Hornung, Eva 19, 38 Schmidt, Sarah 23 Cheng, Melanie 29 Jetñil-Kijiner, Kathy 39 Schweblin, Samanta 20, 24 Partners Chidgey, Catherine 15, 31 Kamishibai 13 Scott, Kim 34 Clarke, Ali 13 Khadivi, Laleh 30, 33 Sentilles, Sarah 17, 20, 23 Office for the Ageing, Clarkson, Rebekah 20, 29 Khong, Rachel 13, 15, 19 Shah, Dhwani 12 SA Health Cole, Teju 15, 20 Kingsolver, Barbara 29 Shamsie, Kamila 19, 33 Cole-Adams, Kate 37 Krasnostein, Sarah 29, 37 Shanbhag, Vivek 16, 30 Coleman, Claire G 34 Laguna, Sofie 13, 14, 20 Siruguri, Ragini 12 Cummings, Phil 13 Larbalestier, Justine 31 Smith, Alexander 39 McCall Dando-Collins, 36 Lockwood, Patricia 23, 34 Stephen Smith, Graeme 35 Foundation, Charity and Government Partners Lunde, Maja 25, 30 de Kretser, Michelle 16, 21, 28 Smith, Michael Farris 16, 24 Lyons, John 17, 21 Dessaix, Robert 35 Story Trove 13 McCamish, Thornton 32 Doctorow, Cory 25, 31 Temple, Kate & Jol 13 McFarlane, Fiona 19, 24 Dovey, Ceridwen 15, 19 Valentish, Jenny 38 McKnight, Harriet 30 Doyle, Jane 13 Wainwright, Robert 35 McKinnon, Catherine 16 Drewe, Robert 30 Walker, Rob 31 McTiernan, Dervla 17, 25 Dumbleton, Mike 13 Winman, Sarah 14, 22 Maksik, Alexander 20, 33 Fidler, Richard 17 Wong, Penny 13 Martins, Professor 16 Flett, Alison 31 Ralph Young, Ashleigh 23, 29

Foenkinos, David 31, 33 Marzano- Lesnevich, 19, 29 Younus, Manal 31 Thank you to Hills Cider, Adelaide Hills Distillery, Mount Franklin and Mayfair Hotel. Fox, Mem 5, 13, 24 Alexandria Massy, Charles 35

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