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

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