Adelaide Writers’ Week – 1-17th March – Down Under

I’ll be at the Adelaide Writers’ Week chairing a bunch of panels and having some discussions…for readers of this blog the following events may be of interest. If you’re in town do come and say hello.

March 4 – 9.30am – The Fishing Fleet – Celebrated biographer Anne de Courcy is arguably best known for Snowden and The Biography and Diana Mosley. She is also the author of Debs At War: 1939 – 1945 How Wartime Changed Their Lives and 1939: The Last Season. Most recently she has published The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj – a fascinating account of the young women sent out from England in search of a husband. Join her in conversation with Paul French.

March 5 – 5pm – The Future of Asia-Pacific – Since the Bali bombings Indonesia has turned from holiday destination to potentially sinister outpost. China’s monster economy is seen as our saviour. Immigrants from Asia continue to arrive, and our politicians continue to bicker. This panel brings together novelist Andrea Hirata, economist Loretta Napoleoni and writer Tim Southphommasane for a conversation about the relationships between the Pacific nations – including our own. Moderated by Paul French.

March 6 – 12pm – The Raj – In The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj Anne de Courcy recreates the decadent and sometimes quite difficult world of English women living in India. In The Unforgiving Minute, Harry Ricketts writes an intimate portrait of Rudyard Kipling, that complicated chronicler of life in India under the British. Join these two eminent biographers for a look back at English Colonial history. Moderated by Paul French.

March 6 – 5pm – Maonomics – Italian economist, journalist and political analyst, Loretta Napoleoni, has written about terrorism, piracy, Eastern Europe’s sex trade, China’s ‘online sweat shops’, new economics, environmental issues and social media. Her new book, Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists explores both the successes of the beginnings of the collapse of capitalism and what she calls China’s ‘peaceful economic revolution’. Join her in conversation with Paul French.