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2025 PROGRAM
Age of Extremes: Spies, Lies and Power Games in the 21st Century
DATE:
Sunday 22 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Henry G's
COST:
$25.00
Three writers of contemporary political and espionage fiction explore a world shaped by surveillance, disinformation and global instability. Drawing on backgrounds in journalism, diplomacy and intelligence, they discuss how power operates in the shadows, and why fiction is often
the most revealing way to understand it.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.
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