Festival Reading List

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How to Knit a Human: A memoir

How do you write a memoir when your memories have been taken? She awakens in hospital, greeted by nurses and patients she doesn’t recognise, but who address her with familiarity. She decides to untangle the clues.

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Cast Mates: Australian Actors in Hollywood and at Home

Sam Twyford-Moore

Cast Mates — starring Errol Flynn, Peter Finch, David Gulpilil and Nicole Kidman — uncovers the long history of Australian actors in cinema at home and abroad.

9781742238180

Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham

Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.

9781742238166

The End of the Morning

Charmian Clift, edited by Nadia Wheatley

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift.

9781742238050

Getting to Know the Birds in Your Neighbourhood

Interested in birds but don’t know where to start? Overwhelmed by the bird guides? Want to know more about the birds you see around you? Then this is the book for you!

Media Monsters: The Transformation of Australia’s Newspaper Empires

In 1941, the paper emperors of the newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years — thanks to shrewd and ruthless behaviour from members of the Murdoch, Packer and Fairfax families and other key players — they grew into media monsters.

Revealing Secrets: An unofficial history of Australian Signals intelligence & the advent of cyber

John Blaxland, Clare Birgin

This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation’s efforts to reveal the secrets of others.

9781742237879

Saving Lieutenant Kennedy

The incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.

9781742237312

Exquisitely written, Eda Gunaydin’s essays unsettle neat descriptions of inheritance, belonging and place.

Artificial Intimacy

Top evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks offers an innovative perspective on human behaviour, AI technologies and the future of sex.