~ Festival Special: Bringing the past to life with Emily Maguire and Jock Serong
About this episode
This episode features a discussion on historical fiction with authors Jock Serong and Emily Maguire at the 2025 Sydney Writers Festival.
A Bookshelf festival special featuring Kate Evans onstage with writers Jock Serong and Emily Maguire on historical fiction, from the 2025 Sydney Writers Festival. GUESTS Emily Maguire is a novelist and essayist whose books include An Isolated Incident and Love Objects, and her latest, Rapture Jock Serong is a novelist and lawyer, whose books include The Rules of Backyard Cricket, On the Java Ridge, the Preservation series, The Settlement, and his latest, Cherrywood CREDITS Presenter/producer, Kate Evans Sound engineer, Roi Huberman Arts editor, Rhiannon Brown
Topics covered
- historical fiction
- Sydney Writers Festival
- literature
- writing
- author discussions
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