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Reckoning
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Sat 25 Oct 12:00 PM
Level 4 | National Library of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Kate Grenville’s ancestors were ‘the sharp edge of the moving blade’ of colonisation through the Hawkesbury region – the subject of her bestseller The Secret River. Now in Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place, she reflects on the reckoning that comes with truly confronting the past and her family story. She’s joined by Paul Daley, whose novel The Leap examines fear and violence in a frontier town. Two years after the Voice referendum, this timely conversation is about non-Indigenous Australians doing the work and personally reckoning with the past.
Kate Grenville has published eighteen books. Her nine novels include the bestseller The Secret River (shortlisted for the Booker). Others have also won international and Australian prizes, been adapted for stage and screen, and appear in translation. Her non-fiction includes biographies and books about the writing process. Her latest book is Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place.
Paul Daley is the author of five non-fiction books and three novels, including his latest The Leap – a literary thriller set in a remote town marred by the legacies of colonial racial violence. His previous novel was the critically-praised Jesustown, about cultural theft and Australian frontier violence. His books have been shortlisted in major Australian literary awards including the Prime Minister’s History Prize. He is an essayist, a multi-award-winning journalist and a columnist for Guardian Australia where he writes about Australian national identity, often with a focus on frontier war, national commemoration and Anzac mythology.
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Kate Grenville has published eighteen books. Her nine novels include the bestseller The Secret River (shortlisted for the Booker). Others have also won international and Australian prizes, been adapted for stage and screen, and appear in translation. Her non-fiction includes biographies and books about the writing process. Her latest book is Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place.
Paul Daley is the author of five non-fiction books and three novels, including his latest The Leap – a literary thriller set in a remote town marred by the legacies of colonial racial violence. His previous novel was the critically-praised Jesustown, about cultural theft and Australian frontier violence. His books have been shortlisted in major Australian literary awards including the Prime Minister’s History Prize. He is an essayist, a multi-award-winning journalist and a columnist for Guardian Australia where he writes about Australian national identity, often with a focus on frontier war, national commemoration and Anzac mythology.
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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.