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From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain's leading prize for non-fiction) comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches - Heresies.
From Manus to MONA to birds to the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the growing corrosion of democracy, from Salman Rushdie to the Segal Report, family and love, Flanagan’s non-fiction writings carry the author’s trademark elegance, subversive wit, and humanity.
This showcase of Richard Flanagan’s heretical brilliance over twenty years speaks to the heart of our troubled times now and we couldn't be more thrilled to be welcoming him to the Castlemaine Town Hall to chat about this collection and his writing career with Astrid Edwards.
From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain's leading prize for non-fiction) comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches - Heresies.
We hope you can join us, this will be one not to be missed.
About Richard Flanagan :
​Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
About Astrid Edwards :
Astrid Edwards is a renowned educator and researcher dedicated to social and climate justice and gender equity. She is also a writer, interlocutor, literary judge and booklover. We're delighted she will join Richard on stage for this conversation.
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Thursday August 6th, 2026
7 00PM - 900 PM
including QnA with the audience + signinG
Castlemaine Town Hall
Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine, 3450
(enter via Frederick St)
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$40 (includes entry + a $20 book voucher to put towards a Richard Flanagan book of your choice.)
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