Afternoons at Adelaide Writers' Week

Esther Freud trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and made into a film starring Kate Winslet. After publishing her second novel, Peerless Flats, she was chosen as one of Granta’s Best Young British novelists. I Couldn’t Love You More is her ninth novel.

Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including The Good Sister and The Younger Wife. Her latest novel is The Soulmate.

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My Editor and Me

Simon Holmes à Court is a senior advisor to the Climate and Energy College at Melbourne University. Simon is also a cleantech investor, climate philanthropist and a director of the Smart Energy Council and the Australian Environmental Grant-makers Network. His first book, The Big Teal, was published in 2022.

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The Planet's Clock is Ticking

Ann-Marie Priest is the author of My Tongue Is My Own: A Life of Gwen Harwood, Great Writers, Great Loves and A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century, which was shortlisted for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award. She was the recipient of the 2017 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship.

Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster. Her first book, Adventures In The Anthropocene won the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize. Her latest book, Nomad Century: How To Survive The Climate Upheaval, explores global migration and planetary restoration in a radical call to arms.