Sydney Writers' Festival

You can take the kid off the stage, but you can’t take the stage off the kid.These writers are theatre kids through-and-through but they’re trying their hands at another, quieter, form with their debut books. In this panel discussion, actor and play

Professor of Philosophy and author A.C. Grayling outlines the fragility of democracy and the freedoms we take for granted and risk losing in For The People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy. In recent years, the democratic foundations and ci

Dubbed the “undisputed laureate of ordinary lives” by The Sunday Times, Irish Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle has kept us laughing and crying in equal measure.From his prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha to The Commitments, which was adapted into a

After her New York Times bestseller, Writers & Lovers, Lily King returns to themes of love, desire, forgiveness and loss in Heart the Lover.    Our narrator is a successful writer who is familiar with the classic tropes of love stories. She

After being crowned the number one book of the 21st century by ABC Radio National, Australian literary sensation Trent Dalton’s newest book mixes gruesome true crime with a personal exploration of love and marriage. Noah Cork had the scoop of his jou