Midnight Oil frontman, parliamentarian and campaigner Peter Garrett, celebrated author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières, Pulitzer Prize winning Australian novelist Geraldine Brooks and renowned philosopher AC Graying will be the next four writers travelling to Adelaide for out-of-season Writers’ Week events.
Adelaide Writers’ Week Director, Laura Kroetsch said, “We are thrilled to be able to continue our special events series with another great bunch of writers and thinkers. We are really enjoying the opportunity to host these events throughout the year. The writers featured in this series are all terrific speakers, and we can promise that audiences will be entertained, enlightened, challenged and charmed.”
Peter Garrett is a long-time advocate and campaigner on a range of local and global issues. A member of Midnight Oil, one of Australia’s most successful bands, he also served as a cabinet minister in the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments from 2007 to 2011. With the publication of his memoir Big Blue Sky, Garrett gives an account of a political life devoted to fighting for the rights of Indigenous Australia, the environment, education and, of course, the music industry. Join him for a conversation about life in the public eye demanding a better Australia.
Best-selling novelist Louis de Bernières has achieved a huge international reputation with the publication of the award-winning Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. More recently he has published the novel Birds Without Wings and A Partisan’s Daughter. De Bernières comes to Adelaide to celebrate the publication of his new novel The Dust That Falls From Dreams. This new novel, set during the brief golden years of King Edward VII’s reign tells the story of three young sisters whose lives are soon to be overshadowed by the Great War.
Acclaimed philosopher AC Grayling comes to Adelaide to talk about his new book The Challenge of Things. Like all of his books, this new collection is grounded in the idea that philosophy should engage with the world in a useful way. In The Challenge of Things Grayling considers topics as varied as the legacy of the First World War, the killing of Osama Bin Laden, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister and the role of science in the arts.
Australian-born Geraldine Brooks is an award winning author and journalist whose many books include Year of Wonders, People of the Book and Caleb’s Crossing. She recently won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel March. Join Brooks as she returns to Australia to celebrate the publication of her new novel The Secret Chord. With this novel, Brooks is telling the story of one of literature’s most enigmatic figures, King David, in a chronicle that takes him from shepherd to soldier, hero to traitor, and beloved king to murderous despot.
Each session will last an hour and will be followed by a book signing.
Tickets for the conversations will be on sale at adelaidefestival.com.au from Friday July 17.
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