Opening Night: The Haunting Australia of Jane Harper!
Thu
23
Thu 23 Oct 6:30 PM
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Gandel Atrium | National Museum of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
120 Mins
October
Celebrate Opening Night with international best-selling author Jane Harper and her soon to be released, new haunting mystery, Last One Out. No writer captures the deeply ominous presence of the Australian bush and its outposts, quite like Jane Harper. In The Dry, The Lost Man, Force of Nature - and now Last One Out - she holds a mirror up to our own fear. With this new masterpiece of Australian eeriness, you can feel the bush sunlight in your eyes and dust in your throat.
Jane will be in a captivating conversation with Canberra's own Alex Sloan, who will put the questions we're all dying to ask about Jane's meteoric rise in Australian novel writing, her craft in shaping such memorable plots and characters, and why she can't turn her eyes away from the bush at dusk.
With Alice Matthews, ABC Canberra, at the helm as our Master of Ceremonies we will give you a night to remember... with special guest Canberra musical legend and author, Fred Smith. Let's celebrate and welcome the stellar line up of brilliant international, interstate and local authors we have in store throughout the festival.
Jane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors and Exiles. Her books are published in forty territories worldwide, and Jane has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year.
The Dry and Force of Nature have been adapted into major motion pictures starring Eric Bana. The Survivors has been adapted into a Netflix TV series.
Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband, two children, and two cats.
Fred Smith is the kind of artist only Canberra could produce. Diplomat, songwriter, poet and author, he was recently awarded an Order of Australia for services to an improbable combination of music and foreign affairs. Fred was the first Australian diplomat to be posted to Uruzgan Province in 2009, and the last to leave in 2013. His job was to comprehend the complex web of tribal and patronage networks that made things tick. He came to see the province through Afghan eyes, as well as those of the soldiers he worked with. He turned these experiences into a highly acclaimed album of songs called Dust of Uruzgan and then a memoir The Dust of Uruzgan, described by Channel 10 Political Editor Hugh Riminton as “as convincing a picture as we will ever have of the tragedy, hope, oddness and courage of Australia’s Uruzgan enterprise…an astonishingly vibrant piece of reportage from the heart of our longest war.” He returned to Afghanistan in 2020 to work in the Australian Embassy during what turned out to be the final year of the Afghan Republic. His latest memoire, The Sparrows of Kabul, documents his experiences working on the frantic evacuation of Kabul.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.
Jane will be in a captivating conversation with Canberra's own Alex Sloan, who will put the questions we're all dying to ask about Jane's meteoric rise in Australian novel writing, her craft in shaping such memorable plots and characters, and why she can't turn her eyes away from the bush at dusk.
With Alice Matthews, ABC Canberra, at the helm as our Master of Ceremonies we will give you a night to remember... with special guest Canberra musical legend and author, Fred Smith. Let's celebrate and welcome the stellar line up of brilliant international, interstate and local authors we have in store throughout the festival.
Jane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors and Exiles. Her books are published in forty territories worldwide, and Jane has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year.
The Dry and Force of Nature have been adapted into major motion pictures starring Eric Bana. The Survivors has been adapted into a Netflix TV series.
Jane worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband, two children, and two cats.
Fred Smith is the kind of artist only Canberra could produce. Diplomat, songwriter, poet and author, he was recently awarded an Order of Australia for services to an improbable combination of music and foreign affairs. Fred was the first Australian diplomat to be posted to Uruzgan Province in 2009, and the last to leave in 2013. His job was to comprehend the complex web of tribal and patronage networks that made things tick. He came to see the province through Afghan eyes, as well as those of the soldiers he worked with. He turned these experiences into a highly acclaimed album of songs called Dust of Uruzgan and then a memoir The Dust of Uruzgan, described by Channel 10 Political Editor Hugh Riminton as “as convincing a picture as we will ever have of the tragedy, hope, oddness and courage of Australia’s Uruzgan enterprise…an astonishingly vibrant piece of reportage from the heart of our longest war.” He returned to Afghanistan in 2020 to work in the Australian Embassy during what turned out to be the final year of the Afghan Republic. His latest memoire, The Sparrows of Kabul, documents his experiences working on the frantic evacuation of Kabul.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.
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