BOOKS AT THE BREWERY
Alex Miller in conversation with John Wolseley
We are delighted to have Alex Miller join us at The Taproom for a conversation about his new collection of stories, essays and poems, Journey to the End of Time with artist, John Wolseley.
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About the Book:
A deeply personal collection of stories, essays and poems from award-winning author Alex Miller's six-decade writing life.
Robust, textured and fascinating, this collection of short stories, memoir, journal entries, essays and poems, Journey to the End of Time, spans decades of Alex Miller's life. The collection opens with a moving depiction of Miller's father leaving for war and closes with the final words of a poem written in 2023: when, eventually, after long labours the voice of the story falls silent and the work is laid aside, then I am alone once again, returned to the timeless solitude, the simplicity of my beginning
Each story is written in response to a significant event in Miller's life. His discerning writing engages with the works of prominent authors and artists, many of them longstanding friends, including Janine Burke, Jacob Rosenberg, Jim Davidson, Rick Amor, Sidney Nolan, John Wolseley and Emily Kame Kngwarreye, each of whom have deepened the richness of Australian cultural life.
​Miller explores the process of writing and the sources of his inspiration, saying, 'From early childhood I had been a storyteller, but as an adult it took me a long time to find my material as a story writer.' Journey to the End of Time forms a companion volume to The Simplest Words and A Kind of Confession, the three volumes together constructing an intimate narrative of Alex Miller's life writing works of quiet power and beauty. His wisdom and experience shine in this rewarding anthology.
About the Author:
Alex Miller is the award-winning author of fourteen novels, a biography and two collections and twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Ancestor Game and Journey to the Stone Country. He is overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, twice winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards, winner of the Chinese 21st Century Weishanhi Best Foreign Novel of the Year and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life, and winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award.
​Miller's work of non-fiction, Max, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award in 2021. Alex's collection of stories and memoir, The Simplest Words, published in 2015 was followed in 2023 with his collection of letters and notebooks, A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2024.
John Wolseley is one of Australia’s most important artists whose works celebrate the beauty of the Australian wilderness and encourage an understanding of the significance of environmental fragility. Perhaps most importantly in this instance, he is a dear friend of Alex Miller so this conversation will be honest, intimate and one of a kind!
Date:
Tuesday April 7 2026
Time:
6 00pm for a 6 30pm start and 8 00pm finish
Venue:
The Taproom, Shedshaker Brewing, 9 Walker Street, Castlemaine 3450
Cost:
$15