An Evening with Kate Grenville
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We are delighted to welcome Kate Grenville to The Phee Broadway Theatre for a conversation with Astrid Edwards about her new book,
Unsettled: A journey through time and place.
Credit: Darren James
Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers and in this most recent book,
she asks the question:
‘What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’
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Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on the Hawkesbury River.
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More than two decades on, and following the defeat of the Voice referendum, she is still grappling with what it means to descend from people who were, as she puts it, “on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation”.
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Kate Grenville goes on a kind of pilgrimage, back through the places her family stories happened, and put the stories and the First People back into the same frame, on the same country, to try to think about those questions.
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This gripping book – which gives many of us pause for thought - is the result of that journey.
Date:
Wednesday June 11 2025
Time:
6 00pm for a 6 30pm start and 8 30pm finish (including signing)
(Doors open to the foyer at 5 45pm and to the auditorium at 6 15pm)
Venue:
The Phee Broadway Theatre, Castlemaine.
Cost:
$35 which includes a $20 voucher to spend on a Kate Grenville book of your choice at the bookstore on the night.
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About the Author
Kate Grenville is perhaps best known for her international bestseller The Secret River which was awarded local and overseas prizes, has been adapted for the stage and an acclaimed television miniseries, and is now a much-loved classic.
Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian's Story, Dark Places, the Orange Prize winner The Idea of Perfection, A Room Made of Leaves and, most recently, Restless Dolly Maunder, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her works of non-fiction include One Life: My Mother's Story, The Case Against Fragrance and Elizabeth Macarthur’s Letters.