AWW23: Food for Thought or Thought for Food
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Louise Adler & Amanda Vanstone. Claudia Roden was scheduled for livestream but was unable t...
AWW23: Russia Now and Then - Alhierd Bacharevič, Sheila Fitzpatrick & Anatol Lieven
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Monica Attard As the war in Ukraine drags on, cities are destroyed and people’s lives are d...
AWW23: Why Books About Politics Matter - Laura Tingle & John Warhurst
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Once upon a time the publishing mantra was that books about politics only sell if written by progres...
AWW23: An Australian Publishing Icon - Hilary McPhee
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Anne Summers Hilary McPhee, together with her business partner Di Gribble, established Austra...
AWW23: Meet the Cohens - Josh Cohen & Joshua Cohen
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jon Faine “No matter what arguments I’d advance, I’d be the loser and murdered." T...
AWW23: The Irish Question - John Boyne, Esther Freud & Louise Kennedy
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Claire Nichols James Joyce in Ulysses wrote: “Every life is many days, day after day. We ...
AWW23: Hype, Hypocrisy and History Speeding Up - David Hare
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Bob Carr Sir David Hare, one of the greatest British playwrights of our time, explores his an...
AWW23: Literary Lives - Bernadette Brennan, Heather Clark, Samantha Rose Hill, Sean O’Beirne & Brigitta Olubas
26 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Catriona Menzies-Pike According to one critic: “Biography is a very definite region bounded...
AWW23 Middle Grade & YA Day: Runt - Craig Silvey
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sarah Ayoub In Runt, Craig Silvey has written a book for the whole family – and for all th...
AWW23 Middle Grade & YA Day: My Spare Heart - Jared Thomas
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Clare Sawyer Jared Thomas goes straight to the heart with his powerful new YA novel, My Spar...
AWW23 Middle Grade & YA Day: The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat - Kate Temple
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Clare Sawyer Enter a world of adventure where the stakes are high and danger lies around ever...
AWW23 Middle Grade & YA Day: Cop & Robber - Tristan Bancks
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Clare Sawyer Cop & Robber is the new nail-biter from Tristan Bancks, the bestselling aut...
AWW23 Middle Grade & Ya Day: Love on the Margins - Randa Abdel-Fattah & Sarah Ayoub
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Clare Sawyer Romance is a popular genre in Australian YA fiction, reflecting the age that the...
AWW23 Middle Grade & YA Day: Fantastic Frights and Flights of Fancy - Sean Williams
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Acclaimed author Sean Williams makes a stopover in his hometown of Adelaide between visits to Irelan...
AWW23: Hear Me Roar!
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Host: DEFNE / Poets include Isi Ferguson, Anna McGahan, Miles Merrill, Tracey O’Callaghan, Steven ...
AWW23: NANGAMAY MANA DJURALI (Dream, Gather, Grow) - Dominic Guerrera & Alison Whittaker
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Poets include: Natalie Harkin, Colin Kinchela, Tyberius Larking, Luke Patterson, Latoya Aroha Rule a...
AWW23: Mother Tongue, Motherland & Motherlessness - Julia Cimafiejeva
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jill Jones Julia Cimafiejeva is a Belarusian poet and translator now living in exile. Through...
AWW23: The Solace of Poetry - Sarah Holland-Batt
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Felicity Plunkett A conversation with Sarah Holland-Batt – poet, critic, editor and advocat...
AWW23: "The Magic of Shirley the Hazzard" - Brigitta Olubas
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Richard Buckham “The world likes to trace the author’s life in the novel but the obvious ...
AWW23: Have We Learned Nothing From the 20th Century? - Anatol Lieven, Ben Macintyre & Fintan O’Toole
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Laura Tingle Have we learned nothing from the tragedies, the waste of human life and the deva...
AWW23: A Writer in Exile - Alhierd Bacharevič
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Miriam Cosic In an open letter to the people of Ukraine in 2022, novelist, journalist and pla...
AWW23: The Great Australian Silence - Dean Ashenden & Peter Sutton
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Kim Mahood Dean Ashenden’s book Telling Tennant’s Story: The Strange Career of the Great...
AWW23: "We Gasp for Air..." - Waleed Aly, Tom Ballard, Tim Dunlop, Sumeyya Ilanbey, Bernard Keane & Scott Stephens
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jonathan Green Full session title: "We Gasp for Air Among People Who Believe They Are Ab...
AWW23: Thinking in Dark Times - Samantha Rose Hill & Peter Singer
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Glyn Davis When asked about the impact and legacy of her work, Hannah Arendt responded: “If...
AWW23: Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here - Heather Rose
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Lenore Taylor Award-winning novelist Heather Rose’s memoir, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here,...
AWW23: For the Love of Language - Terence Davies
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Neil Armfield Over his 40-year career in filmmaking, Terence Davies has explored the lives of...
AWW23: Under the Covers - Richard Fidler & Sarah Kanowski
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Special guests: Shalom Auslander, Geoff Dyer, Louise Kennedy & Margot Saville Join Richard Fidle...
AWW23: Simon Armitage and Friends - Simon Armitage, Julia Cimafiejeva, Max Gillies, Sarah Holland-Batt & Shaun Micallef
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sarah Ferguson When Sarah Ferguson was 14, she took out her most decorative stationery and wr...
AWW23: What COVID Did to Love - Laura Kipnis
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sarah Hanson-Young Cultural critic Laura Kipnis wants to know what a plague-inflected dystopi...
AWW23: Authors Take Sides - Randa Abdel-Fattah, Ramzy Baroud, Mohammed El-Kurd & Peter Singer
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sophie McNeill In 1937, 148 writers, including Samuel Beckett, Rebecca West and T.S. Eliot, a...
AWW23: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family - Joshua Cohen
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Michaela Kalowski In 2022, Joshua Cohen was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Netanyahus: A...
AWW23: Spooks and the Stories They Spin - Ben Macintyre
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Tony Jones Ben Macintyre, the bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor, Agent Zigzag a...
AWW23: The Public Square - Shalom Auslander, George Brandis, Sarah Ferguson, David Hare & Mark Scott
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Bob Carr George Orwell said: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to t...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Ginger Meggs and Tom Weekly - Tristan Bancks
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Nice and Slow - Sarah Ayoub
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: The Underdogs - Kate & Jol Temple
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Story Trove - The Spectacular Suit #2
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held on Sat 04 Mar in the Torrens Tent, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Happily Ever Afterwards - Shaun Micallef
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Treasure in the Lake - Jason Pamment
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Possum Magic - Mem Fox
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Read by Max Gillies and Mem Fox Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Story Trove - The Spectacular Suit #1
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23 Kids' Day: Bin Chickens - Kate & Jol Temple
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Held in the Torrens Tent on Sat 04 Mar, Kids’ Day featured an all-Australian line-up of some of th...
AWW23: Discomforting the Comfortable - Marina Hyde
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Lenore Taylor According to Armando Iannucci: “An infinite number of gag-writers, working al...
AWW23: Dangerous Minds - Nicci French (Sean French & Nicci Gerrard), Chris Hammer & Dervla McTiernan
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sue Turnbull If murder, mean streets and psychopaths pique your interest, this is an unmissa...
AWW23: Novel Worlds - Gail Jones & Brigitta Olubas
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Mireille Juchau Gail Jones' and Shirley Hazzard’s hypnotic novels describe how moments...
AWW23: When Beckett Met Kafka... - Shalom Auslander
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Sean French Shalom Auslander, author of the darkly funny Foreskin’s Lament: A Memoir and ...
AWW23: Moguls and the Media - Sarah Hanson-Young & Paddy Manning
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jim Middleton The TV series Succession has been appointment viewing and frequent comparison...
AWW23: Searching for Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Felicity Plunkett Sylvia Plath is a literary icon – praised and vilified in equal measure b...
AWW23: The Authority of Tenderness - Paul Williams
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: J.M. Coetzee British psychoanalyst Dr Paul Williams has written extensively about the human m...
AWW23: Tripping Over Myself - Shaun Micallef
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Jon Faine After almost three decades on Australian screens, Shaun Micallef has become a cultu...
AWW23: Between Two Worlds - Don Watson
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Richard Fidler In The Passion of Private White, bestselling author Don Watson describes the ...
AWW23: Open Your Hearts Australia - Natalie Ahmat, Jack Latimore & Jodan Perry
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: David Nolan Australians are now engaged in a national conversation about a change to the cons...
AWW23: History's Rough Draft - Sumeyya Ilanbey, Margot Saville & Chris Wallace
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Steve Bracks It is a truism that political memoirs are an invaluable first draft of history. ...
AWW23: Why the Irish Are a Mystery Unto Themselves - Fintan O'Toole
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Maxine McKew Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals, as a column...
AWW23: Adventures in the Golden Age of Islam - Richard Fidler
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Nicole Abadee In The Book of Roads & Kingdoms, Richard Fidler charts the story of the me...
AWW23: A History of the Soul - Svetlana Alexievich & Mariana Katzarova
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chair: Louise Adler / Translator: Elena Mikhailik Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 Nobel Laureate, has ...
AWW22 Loop Tracks - Sue Orr
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Victoria Purman CW: Discussion of abortion. A bestseller in Sue Orr’s New Zealand, Loop...
AWW22 Symbiotic Siblings - Hannah Bent and Campbell Mattinson
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Nicole Abadee The twins at the heart of Campbell Mattinson’s deeply moving We Were Not ...
AWW22 Dark Actions, Dark Consequences - Jaivet Ealom and Abbas Nazari
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Natasha Yacoub 2021 marked twenty years since Australia sent the Special Air Service to b...
AWW22 The Education of Young Donald - Kerryn Goldsworthy, Julia Horne and Nick Horne
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Peter Rose The Education of Young Donald trilogy is Donald Horne’s autobiographies — ...
AWW22 The Silence Between Us - Cécile Barral, Oceane Campbell and Patrick McGorry
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Peter Goldsworthy WARNING: CONTAINS REFERENCES TO SUICIDE. The Silence Between Us: A Moth...
AWW22 The Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent - Gideon Haigh
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Anthony Durkin 1937. Seven-year-old Maxie falls into a rain-filled trench and drowns. Fro...
AWW22 Sold Down the River - Scott Hamilton and Stuart Kells
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Michael West “Water policy is hard,” says Malcolm Turnbull, subject as it is to so ma...
AWW22 Devotion - Hannah Kent
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Anton Enus After the runaway success of her first two novels, Adelaide’s own Hannah Ken...
AWW22 History, Storytelling and the Collective Imagination - Tom Griffiths and Bruce Pascoe
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Co-presented with Melbourne Writers' Festival With its descriptions of the sophisticated economic an...
AWW22 Into Her Own Hands - Jane Caro and Debra Oswald
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Collette Snowden The strong female protagonists in Jane Caro’s The Mother and Debra Osw...
AWW22 The Magician - Colm Tóibín
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Caroline Baum From The Heather Blazing to The Master, Colm Tóibín is acclaimed for his ...
AWW22 Grift, Lies and Influence - Fiona McLeod and Michael West
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Royce Kurmelovs As we lurch from one scandal of misspent public money to the next, transp...
AWW22 Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society - Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies
10 Mar 2022
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Chaired by Rick Sarre This affirming book is less about death than how to counteract the fear of it ...
AWW22 Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America - Alec MacGillis
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Royce Kurmelovs There is a price to be paid for convenience. The one-click wonder of Amaz...
AWW22 The Death of Dr Duncan - Tim Reeves
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by David Marr. CW: Discussion of homophobia, assault. It’s fifty years since the infamous ...
AWW22 Fury - Kathryn Heyman
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Yves Rees CW: Discussion of rape, assault. When Kathryn Heyman was 20, she was raped by a...
AWW22 Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Michael Williams Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Doerr’s best-selling All the Light We Ca...
AWW22 Policy Drift - John Daley and Martin Parkinson
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Paul Barclay After consistent reform at a Federal level across the Hawke, Keating, Howard...
AWW22 Full Circle: A Search for the World that Comes Next - Scott Ludlam
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Sally Warhaft Wildly ambitious in scope and ideas, Scott Ludlam’s Full Circle seeks not...
AWW22 Searching for Redemption - Miles Allinson and Liam Pieper
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Karen Wyld The road to spiritual redemption in the ashrams of India is much trod by Weste...
AWW22 Taking Down the Decorations - Pasi Sahlberg and Gabrielle Stroud
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Paul Barclay Join Big Ideas’ Paul Barclay for a fascinating conversation from two sides...
AWW22 A Passage North - Anuk Arudpragasam
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Smriti Daniel Anuk Arudpragasam’s first book, The Story of a Marriage, earned him compa...
AWW22 The Reckoning - Jess Hill and Grace Tame
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Jo Dyer CW: Discussion of child sexual abuse, rape, sexual assault. 2021 was a year of re...
AWW22 Love Stories - Trent Dalton
09 Mar 2022
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Chaired by Nicole Abadee The genesis of Trent Dalton’s Love Stories was a blue Olivetti typewriter...
AWW22 Keeping It Tense - J.P. Pomare and Christian White
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by David Sly When his debut crime novel, The Nowhere Child, became a runaway blockbuster, Ch...
AWW22 From Russia to the Soviet Union and Back Again - Sheila Fitzpatrick
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Anton Enus Australia’s foremost researcher on modern Russia, Sheila Fitzpatrick, joins ...
AWW22 Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a Time of Beauty and Loss - Delia Falconer
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kerryn Goldsworthy “Is it true the world’s going to die soon?” the young daughter o...
AWW22 The Legend of Charmian Clift - Tanya Dalziell, Paul Genoni and Polly Samson
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Sophie Cunningham To celebrate the new edition of her classic texts, Mermaid Singing and ...
AWW22 AICSA Election Series: In-conversation with Shadow Minister for the Arts, Katrine Hildyard MP
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by Jessica Alice & Vincent Ciccarello. Join the Arts Industry Council of South Australia ...
AWW22 In Case You Missed Them - Bernadette Brennan and Joyce Morgan
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Caroline Baum. Bernadette Brennan and Joyce Morgan wrote their excellent biographies in t...
AWW22 Motherhood Express - Alice Pung and Allee Richards
08 Mar 2022
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Chaired by Jo Case. Alice Pung and Allee Richards’ protagonists each find themselves unexpectedly ...
AWW22 Nice Racism - Robin DiAngelo
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Paul Barclay. The title of Robin DiAngelo’s last international bestseller entered the l...
AWW22 The Other Half of You - Michael Mohammed Ahmad
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Geordie Williamson. Michael Mohammed Ahmad is an important voice in contemporary Australi...
AWW22 This is Your Mind on Plants - Michael Pollan
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Ben Brooker. Following his New York Times bestselling How to Change Your Mind on the ther...
AWW22 The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Linda Jaivin. Zakiya Dalila Harris’s The Other Black Girl was one of the buzziest books...
AWW22 Once and Future - Evelyn Araluen and Jazz Money
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Natalie Harkin. Two of Australia’s most exciting young poets come together on one dynam...
AWW22 Revolution and Reform: Gender, Climate and Race - Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Scott Ludlum and Joelle Taylor
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twilight Talk | Authorial Voice Hosted by Michael Williams. Join us for our second Twilight Talk as ...
AWW22 The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Clare Wright Described by The New York Times as “quietly dazzling”, Amia Srinivasan’...
AWW22 A Bloody Good Rant - Thomas Keneally
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Angela Savage For over fifty years, Tom Keneally has been writing about everything that m...
AWW22 The Ruthless Muse
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Poetry in Performance with Elyas Alavi, Ken Bolton, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Jelena, Dinic, Juan Garrido...
AWW22 Wild Abandon - Emily Bitto
08 Mar 2022
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Chaired by Nicole Abadee Following heartbreak, self-absorbed young Melbourne boy Will flees to New Y...
AWW22 7 ½ - Christos Tsiolkas
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Michael Williams In Christos Tsiolkas’s first foray into autofiction, 7½, his protagon...
AWW22 Good International Citizenship: The Case for Decency - Gareth Evans
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Kerry O’Brien As our Foreign Minister from 1988 – 1996 and President of the Brusselsb...
AWW22 Bad Energy - Ian Lowe and Jeremy Moss
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chaired by Natasha Mitchell Two brilliant books concerned with the morality intrinsic to energy poli...