Online | Sydney Writers' Festival - Sebastian Barry: Old God's Time
Sit down with Ireland’s Fiction Laureate Sebastian Barry and host Ailsa Piper to discuss the Booker Prize longlisted Old God’s Time, followed by a live performance of Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 by Max Bruch arranged for cello and piano with Melissa Barnard and Lee Dionne from the ACO. Sebastian appears via video link.
Banning books, waving flags and persecuting racial minorities. Sound familiar?
Celeste Ng’s third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is set in a marginally more dystopian version of Trump’s America as a patriotic new law removes children from dissident parents.
After New York Times bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere – which was adapted into a popular miniseries starring Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon – comes a similarly moving tale about the unbreakable bond between a mother and son.
Sit down with Celeste and host Claire Nichols to discuss hope, hero librarians and the power of art to create change
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