With Sarah Martin | Kate Morton is one of Australia’s best-selling authors. A fascination with secrets and their impact has shaped her writing. She explains why to Sarah Martin. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 5:00pm

With Susan Johnson | 'Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' is the stating point for Clementine Ford's case against marriage. She explains to Susan Johnson why she believes marriage is an institution that is passé, oppressive and against women's interests. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 5:00pm…

With Jo Case | Author Catharine Lumby knew Frank Moorhouse for many years. A decade before his death in 2022, Moorhouse asked her to be his biographer. In conversation with Jo Case, Lumby shares how this relationship influenced her approach. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 3:45pm

With Amanda Vanstone | Umut Özkırımlı, the author of Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke, joins Amanda Vanstone to discuss the question: “What do evangelical Christians, far right Trump supporters and the woke Left have in common? They all burn books, and in fact they burn the same books. But book burning - or other forms of cancelling - is not …

With Mike Ladd | Omar Sakr is an award-winning poet and novelist. His latest collection, Non-Essential Work, confronts issues of gender, race and identity. He explores these concerns with Mike Ladd. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 2:30pm

With Helen Elliott | Una Mannion’s second novel, Tell Me What I Am, is a superbly literary novel masquerading as a compelling thriller. In conversation with Helen Elliott, Mannion asks how we know who we are. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 2:30pm

With Jo Case | Brooklyn and Jerusalem are places that have powerfully informed the recent writing of two leading American writers – Jonathan Lethem and Nathan Thrall. Join them in conversation with Jo Case. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 1:15pm

With Hannah Kent | Myfanwy Jones, the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Leap, has just published a new novel about fathers, sons and the damage that can ripple through generations. She discusses the writing process with Hannah Kent. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 1:15pm

With Annabelle Quince | Ilan Pappé is one of the most influential historians writing today on the history of Israel and Palestine. He joins Annabelle Quince via live stream to explain why context matters. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 12:00pm

With Nicole Abadee | Anna Funder’s Wifedom shines a light on the woman who George Orwell described as his wife thirty-seven times without ever using her name. Eileen O’Shaughnessy has now been written back into history, as Funder explains to Nicole Abadee. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 12:00pm

With Sarah Martin | Polly Toynbee has been a columnist for The Guardian for over twenty-five years. In conversation with Sarah Martin, Toynbee speaks about her new memoir and its exploration of class in Britain, social justice and the effects of privilege. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 10:45am

With Louise Adler and Sian Cain | By exploring an episode of her own life in the context of a residential creative writing course, Miranda France examines how and why we tell our own stories in The Writing School. Can writing be taught? Louise Adler joins Sian Cain to test this proposition and discuss France's work. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 10:45…

With Tory Shepherd | Women have long been written out of history, marginalised and ignored. Tory Shepherd interviews Sarah Watling about the remarkable women writers who went to Spain to fight fascism in the 1930s. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 9:30am

With Lucia Sorbera | Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and his most recent work has focused on engaged writers. He tells Lucia Sorbera why he chose to write a biography of Frantz Fanon at this moment. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 9:30am

With Annabelle Quince | Understanding the Middle East conflict requires us to consider the origins of Hamas: the organisation, its political ambitions and relationship to the Palestinian polity. Tareq Baconi, the author of Hamas Contained, explains the background and context to Annabelle Quince. Event details: Thu 07 Mar, 8:15am…

Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with Jessica Alice | Join renowned Australian poets Evelyn Araluen, Madison Godfrey, Jill Jones and Ellen van Neerven with chair Jessica Alice for an exploration of poetry as a tool for resistance and social transformation. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 5:00pm…

With Anne Pender | Susan Johnson is a brave writer. She is also a brave daughter. Johnson tells Anne Pender why and how she decided to bring her elderly mother to live with her on a Greek island. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 5:00pm

Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams with David Marr | Have you ever wondered what happens during a book tour? Kate Grenville, Susan Johnson, Una Mannion and Pip Williams join chair David Marr to give you the scoop as they share stories from their own book tours across Australia and around the world. Event details: Wed 06 Mar…

With Beejay Silcox | Helen Elliott, a wonderfully perceptive literary critic, finally decided to write a memoir – a letter to eleven people who influenced her life. She explains why to Beejay Silcox. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 2:30pm

Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera and Karen Wyld | What remains after colonisation? After heartbreak? After protest? Like the rocks, First Peoples remain. Co-editors and contributors of The Rocks Remain anthology discuss continuation and the power of story. Ali Cobby Eckermann, Brad Darkson, Dominic Guerrera, and Karen Wyld in-con…

With Sarah L'Estrange | Jonathan Lethem is a genre agnostic – from sci-fi to detective fiction. He explains to Sarah L’Estrange why he likes books in all their “homely actuality”. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 1:15pm

With Rachel Perkins | David Marr confronts uncomfortable truths with his customary courage and acuity in a conversation with Rachel Perkins. Supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 1:15pm

With Jo Case | Lynne Malcolm spent many years presenting Radio National’s All in the Mind. Now she has distilled all she has learned in a book about neuroscience, psychiatry, mental health and human behaviour. She explores the issues with Jo Case. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 12:00pm

With Nicole Abadee | Kate Grenville has been delighting readers since her very first collection, Bearded Ladies, was published in 1984. Nicole Abadee takes the opportunity to talk to Grenville about her oeuvre. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 12:00pm

With Lisa Temple | Susanna Moore joins Lisa Temple via live stream to talk about her new novel, The Lost Wife, her memoir and ‘that novel’ – In the Cut. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 10:45am

With Jane Howard | Pip Williams, best-selling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words, tells Jane Howard about her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – an encomium to the art and craft of making books. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 10:45am

With Sian Cain | Today the Spanish Civil War is remembered through writers like George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway. Anna Funder and Sarah Watling join Sian Cain to explore the stories of the courageous women who have been written out of this history. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 9:30am

With Nicole Abadee | Blake Morrison advises memoirists to remember god is in the details. Nicole Abadee tests this advice with Martin Flanagan and Polly Toynbee. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 9:30am

With John Lyons | Bruce Wolpe has spent years studying America’s political culture, leadership and global relationships – from Asia to Israel, Albanese to Putin, and everything in between. Joining John Lyons via live stream, Wolpe explores the national and international tensions now in play. Event details: Wed 06 Mar, 8:15am…

With Vikki Wakefield | Gary Lonesborough’s award-winning debut, The Boy From The Mish, is a powerful coming-of-age story. His follow-up, We Didn’t Think It Through, offers a nuanced exploration of life inside ‘juvie’. Join us at YA night for a conversation between Lonesborough and Vikki Wakefield. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 7:30pm…

With Margot McGovern | Across her YA series, Lynette Noni has created a host of memorable characters that fans care for deeply. She speaks with Margot McGovern about how to hold a reader’s attention and create relationships that can span many years. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 6:30pm

With Sian Cain | Racism and sexism continue to plague Australian sporting codes despite multiple reviews, diversity policies and courageous outspoken sports people. Ellen van Neerven explains the impasse to Sian Cain. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 5:00pm

With DreamYard International Poetry Exchange Program | Join chair Ellen Hagan and teen poets from Australia, South Korea and the United States as they compete for the title of International High School Poetry Champions. Supported by the United States Embassy. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 5:00pm

With Helen Elliott | With the publication of her first book, Eliza Clark was named one of Granta magazine’s best British novelists under forty. Her new novel’s protagonist is the unreliable narrator of a true crime, reimagined as crime fiction. Clark is joined by Helen Elliott. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 5:00pm…

With Rick Sarre | The voice of nightly radio for legions of fans, Peter Goers has been called “the critic who ate Adelaide”. He discusses his latest book, a memoir about his parents’ death in the crash of Pan Am Flight 759, with Rick Sarre. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 3:45pm

With David Marr | In Nicholas Jose’s latest novel, East Timor’s fight for independence provides the context for a story about the intersection of the personal and the political. He explores with David Marr the pleasure and anxieties of writing a literary thriller. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 3:45pm

With Amanda Vanstone | When Muster Dogs first hit screens, the lively kelpie pups adopted into farming homes across Australia became instant stars. Lisa Millar tells Amanda Vanstone about her new book, why the TV show resonated with audiences and its impact on her own life. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 3:45pm…

Calling all twitchers for a conversation about Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood and Birds with Personality between Georgia Angus and Darryl Jones. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 2:30pm

With Sarah L'Estrange | Rachael Mead speaks with Sarah L’Estrange about the challenges of turning from poetry to fiction, reflecting on her latest novel, The Art of Breaking Ice. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 2:30pm

With Claire Nichols | Miles Franklin winner Melissa Lucashenko joins The Book Show’s Claire Nichols for a discussion about her new novel, Edenglassie, and white Australia’s amnesia regarding our collective history. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 2:30pm

With Sian Cain | Madison Godfrey describes their second poetry collection as a document of a decade of performing womanhood. The poems are about music, fandom, gender and desire. Godfrey discusses prose poetry with Sian Cain. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 1:15pm

With Nicole Abadee | Anne Michaels, the acclaimed novelist and poet, joins Nicole Abadee via live stream for a conversation about writing, structure and the past. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 1:15pm

John Lyons, Ilan Pappé, Nathan Thrall and Bruce Wolpe with Debbie Whitmont | Edward Said described Palestinians as “the victims’ victims”. Walkley Award-winning journalist John Lyons, preeminent Israeli historian Ilan Pappé (live stream), Nathan Thrall, author of A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, and political insider Bruce Wolpe (live stream) disc…

Royce Kurmelovs, Tory Shepherd and Ben Stubbs with Smriti Daniel | From reporting on the far right to journeys in the Paraguay jungle, join award-winning journalists Royce Kurmelovs, Tory Shepherd and Ben Stubbs for a deep dive into the risks and rewards of immersive storytelling, with Smriti Daniel. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 12:00pm…

Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Richard King, Kate Mildenhall and Tracey Spicer with Ariel Bogle | Can AI produce literature? Writers are demanding protection against tech companies using their work without permission or compensation. Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Richard King, Kate Mildenhall and Tracey Spicer discuss the fate of the author with Ariel Bogle. …

With Jonathan Green | In a writing life spanning over forty years, Jane Smiley has published seventeen novels, two short story collections, five non-fiction books and eight young adult novels. She tells Jonathan Green why she believes novelists are always working in a time of turmoil. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 12:00pm…

Melanie Ostell, Vanessa Radnidge and Jeanne Ryckmans with Jessica Alice | From bidding wars to MFA wunderkinds, publishers see it all. Go behind the scenes with Melanie Ostell, Vanessa Radnidge and Jeanne Ryckmans to answer all your curly questions about the world of writing and publishing, with Jessica Alice. Presented in partnership with Writers …

With David Marr | Only Peter Goldsworthy could write a memoir titled The Cancer Finishing School. He explains to David Marr why cancer makes good copy for a writer. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 10:45am

With Natasha Mitchell | Mental illness is stigmatised, economic rationalism determines government funding, and the industry is dominated by big pharma. Natasha Mitchell asks Patrick McGorry and Jonathan Rosen why we continue to fail our most vulnerable citizens. Event details: Tue 05 Mar, 10:45am

Madison Godfrey, Kate Grenville and Anjum Hasan with Jessica Alice | Join Madison Godfrey, Kate Grenville and Anjum Hasan for an intimate exploration of the other great partnership in life – the author-editor relationship – that takes writing from the deeply personal to the public stage, with Jessica Alice. Presented in partnership with Writers SA.…