Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
And it's funny, when I started out, I really felt like I had a handle on Australian literature, past and present, European literature and translation, Anglosphere literature, particularly, you know, 20th century UK and US.
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
And in particular, I'm looking at two books written by Australians that they will be appearing at the festival that are both quite strange and slightly askew to the usual run of books that I review.
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
And the first of those is by an activist and author named Alexis Wright, who is a one-year woman from Gulf of Carpentaria, based down south most of the time these days, but keeps one foot in home country, basically.
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
And she said to me once years ago that her job was, when she went home, is to do the kind of the transcribing work for those people who couldn't write for themselves.
Alan Hollinghurst's The Sparsholt Affair, Eleanor Limprecht's The Passengers and reviewers Nicole Abadee, Frank Bongiorno and Geordie Williamson
But there was also a larger project where she sought through her work as an author to tell the story of many First Nations people who didn't necessarily have a voice themselves.