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The lure of the past: historical fiction

  • Darley Smith Building 1 Darley Road Manly, NSW, 2095 Australia (map)
 

Authors Mirandi Riwoe and James Vella-Bardon have set their historical novels in vastly different times, empires, and nations. But nonetheless we are drawn back ceaselessly into the past not only as a means of rich storytelling, but also as a pointer to the future.

In conversation with Victoria Haskins.

 
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Mirandi Riwoe

Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the 2020 Queensland Literary Award – Fiction Book Award and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize and longlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

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James Vella-Bardon

James Vella-Bardon was born and raised in Malta, an island nation influenced by thousands of years of imperial history, from the Romans to the British where his passion for exciting and dramatic historical events was formed.

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Session details

When: Saturday 16th March, 10.30-11.30am

Where: Darley Smith Building

Cost: $20

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