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Australian Historical Fiction

2025 PROGRAM

Australian Historical Fiction

DATE: 

Saturday 29th March

LOCATION:

Darley Smith Building

COST:

$22

We discuss Australian historical stories from 18th century England to World War II with three authors.

Free by Meg Keneally blends storytelling with social critique in the story of Molly Thistle, who is
transported to the new penal colony after stealing a horse and defies convention to create a commercial empire.

All the Golden Light by Siobhan O’Brien sees the struggle that takes place at home after World War I, where everyone is affected: returned soldiers by post- traumatic stress and women wanting independence and purpose.

To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon weaves together an Australian nurse and soldier in New Guinea, scientists in Los Alamos, and a mother in Japan, connected in a moment of history in a tale of friendship, love, and war.

Host: Victoria Haskins

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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