Festival Experience
Curate Your Festival
We’ve bundled our events into curated packages — tap a collection to explore its events and build your perfect festival weekend. Don’t forget, book any 4 events and we’ll give you 5% off the cost of your total purchase. Add 5 events for a 10% discount, or 7 or more for a 15% discount! Offer applies until 11.59pm 4 October 2026, and is automatically applied at the check out.
Literary Luminaries
Celebrate the finest voices in contemporary literature — novelists, poets and essayists whose work defines our reading lives.
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With a Little Help From My Friends
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Supergirls vs the Strongmen of Russia
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AI and All the Lonely People
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The Art of Erotic Transformation
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Mirandi Riwoe: A Short History of Longans
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Why We Love Historical Novels
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How to Read for Joy
Hot Afternoon & Evening Book Events
Late-afternoon and evening sessions for booklovers who like their conversations a little edgier — and their wine well-poured.
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Cyberspace of Castillo
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How Do You Survive Reality TV?
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Love, Career…Sadness: Cue Quarter-life Crisis!
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Millennial Despair: When You Just Can’t Even…
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Hot History: Marc Fennell and Matt Bevan In Conversation
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My Dirty Awkward Rom Com!
Bookclub Faves
The perfect weekend for your whole book club — packed with the authors, themes and big reads your group has been talking about.
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Forbidden Love in War: Pip Williams in Conversation
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The Intimacy of the World
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Mother Rage
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Empire and Decline with Andrew O’Hagan
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Faithful and Furious Sisters
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Why We Love Historical Novels
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Witch, Hate, Love
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Top 100 Australian Books
Fascinating History & Topical Conversations
From Anzac Day to Australian democracy — stories that illuminate the events and forces that shaped the world we live in.
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The Library That Made Me
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Challenging Anzac & the Future of Military Service
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First Responders: Stories from the Front Line
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For the Love of Letters
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The Last Best Place on the Internet
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The Big Steal with Paul Barry
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Deciding our Democracy
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Way Women Lead
Knowledge, Time & Our Sci-Fi Future
Venture into the speculative, the scientific and the strange — from AI to time travel, space to Indigenous futurism.
Politics and Current Affairs
Fearless conversations about the state of our democracy, the rise of populism, and the reform Australia needs.
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Angertainment
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Political Rupture: Identity, Equality and Opportunity
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Outlawed: The Rise of Sovereign Citizen Ideology
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Big Problem, Brave Reform
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Wave of One Nation
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Mr Fluffy and Accidental Activism
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Turbulence & Timidity
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Secrets of the Press Gallery: 125 Years of Federal Political Reporting
Memoir & Life Stories
Extraordinary lives told in vivid detail — from public figures to quiet heroes, every story in this package lingers long after the session ends.
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Art of Biography: Startles and Scandals
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The Legend of Reg Saunders
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Burden and Blessing in Broome
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This Is My Story: Migration Narratives
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Susan Orlean’s Joyride
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The Elders
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Curiosity and Philosophy of Chef Josh Niland
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The Art of Good Speech
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Authoritarianism and Me
Country, Nature & Climate
From cli-fi to COP31 — writers, scientists and activists thinking deeply about the country we love and the planet we share.
Big Names! Big Stories! Big Adventures for Kids!
A full day of events for readers aged 5 to 12 — featuring beloved authors, illustrators and storytellers.
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Fearless Girls Who Make Their Own Adventures
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Deadly Science, Deadly Storytelling
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Let’s Do the Draw Off Again!
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Let’s chat with R.A. Spratt
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Morris Gleitzman: Dangerously Great Storytelling
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Fearless Boys Who Make Their Own Adventures
Young Adult
YA readers deserve their own space — these sessions are built for teens and the writers who understand them best.
