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Kate Grenville - Unsettled

Author In-conversation

2025-04-23 18:00:00 2025-04-23 19:00:00 Australia/Melbourne Kate Grenville - Unsettled Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Kate will be in conversation with multiple award-winning writer, Jock Serong. Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome) -

Wednesday, April 23
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-23 18:00:00 2025-04-23 19:00:00 Australia/Melbourne Kate Grenville - Unsettled Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Kate will be in conversation with multiple award-winning writer, Jock Serong. Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome) -

Kate Grenville is one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Kate will be in conversation with multiple award-winning writer, Jock Serong.

‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’

Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on the Hawkesbury River.

More than two decades on, and following the defeat of the Voice referendum, Grenville is still grappling with what it means to descend from people who were, as she puts it, “on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation”.

So she decides to go on a kind of pilgrimage, back through the places her family stories happened, and put the stories and the First People back into the same frame, on the same country, to try to think about those questions.

This gripping book is the result of that journey.

Tickets $20 or $10 for Geelong Regional Library Corporation Members.

If you need any assistance in order to participate in this event, please contact events@grlc.vic.gov.au at least two weeks prior to the event date.

Book sales and author signings will be offered at this event.
 

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Author Talks |

TAGS: | recommended |

Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome)

Phone: (03) 4201 0600

Hours

Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (The Dome)

We're closed Friday April 25 due to ANZAC Day
Mon, Apr 21 Closed
(Easter Break)
Tue, Apr 22 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Wed, Apr 23 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Apr 24 9:00AM to 5:30PM
Fri, Apr 25 Closed
(ANZAC Day)
Sat, Apr 26 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Apr 27 10:00AM to 5:00PM

Tel: (03) 4201 0600

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