~ Festival Special: Bringing the past to life with Emily Maguire and Jock Serong

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A Bookshelf festival special featuring Kate Evans onstage with writers Jock Serong and Emily Maguire on historical fiction, from the 2025 Sydney Writers Festival.GUESTSEmily Maguire is a novelist and essayist whose books include An Isolated Incident and Love Objects, and her latest, RaptureJock 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, CherrywoodCREDITSPresenter/producer, Kate EvansSound engineer, Roi HubermanArts editor, Rhiannon Brown

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