Niki Savva will be in conversation with Kerry -Anne Walsh on her new book Earthquake, the election that shook Australia, a collection of Niki Savva’s most groundbreaking columns from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, along with a riveting and deeply informed analysis of Australia’s epoch-making 2025 election.

Sean Kelly will be in conversation with Amy Remeikis on his new Quarterly Essay,The Good Fight.What Does Labor Stand For? In this subtle and brilliant essay, Kelly explores whether Labor is still up for the good fight. 

Three multi-award winning authors, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, will be in conversation with Beejay Silcox on their book The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial.

Julianne Schultz will be in conversation with Allan Behm on her book The Idea of Australia - A search for the soul of the nation.

Award-winning author Greg Haddrick will be in conversation with Michael Brissenden on Greg's new book The Mushroom Murders.

Kate Reid will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on her new book Destination Moon. A memoir of fast cars, French pastries and finding purpose.

Dr Elfie Shiosaki, Noongar will discuss her latest collection of poems, Refugia, at The Book Cow.

Graeme Turner will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on his new book Broken: Universities, Politics and the Public Good.

Irma Gold will be in conversation with Karen Hardy on her new book Shift.

Cheng Lei will be in conversation with Michael Hertel on her new book Cheng Lei: A Memoir of Freedom?

Hugh White will be in conversation with Allan Behm on his new Quarterly Essay Hard New World: Our Post-American Future.

Toby Walsh in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book The Shortest History of AI.

Raina MacIntyre in conversation with Sanjaya Senanayake on her new book Vaccine Nation Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress.

Steve Vizard will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on Nation, Memory, Myth. Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary. 

Kate Grenville will be in conversation with Ann McGrath on her new bookUnsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place.

Vincent Fantauzzo will be in conversation with Helen Musa on his memoir Unveiled, the incredible true story of how a street-fighting petty criminal, who was kicked out of school at fourteen, became one of Australia’s most celebrated and successful portrait artists.

Robert Dessaix will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Chameleon: A memoir of art, travel, ideas and love.

Geraldine Brooks will be in conversation with Alex Sloan on her new book Memorial Days, a heart-rending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward peace.

Misha Ketchell will moderate a discussion with Frank Bongiorno, Michelle Grattan and Mark Kenny, contributors to the new collection of essays, How Australian Democracy Works. And why we need it more than ever.

Arnold Dix will be in a conversation with Alex Sloan on his new book The Promise. How an everyday hero made the impossible possible.

Juno Gemes will be in a conversation with Linda Burney, moderated by Ann McGrath, on her new book Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights.

Ross Garnaut will be in conversation with Barry Jones on his new book Let's Tax Carbon.

John Safran will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on his new book Squat.

Join MARION, Bookface Gungahlin and Canberra region authors for a celebration of Queer literature.

This free, informal event will be full of book recommendations, literary discussion, and connection.

Shaun Micallef will be in conversation with Andrew Leigh on his new book Slivers, Shards and Skerricks. “A one-man anthology by one of Australia's most intelligent and more handsome Renaissance men.”

Benjamin Stevenson will be in conversation with Jack Heath on his new novel Everyone this Christmas has a Secret, a Christmas addition to his bestselling Ernest Cunningham mysteries.

Best-selling Italian author Paolo Giordano will be in conversation with Marco Lazzarino on his semi-autobiographical novel Tasmania.

Andrew Leigh will be in conversation with Lin Hatfield Dodds on his new book Battlers and Billionaires: The Updated Story of Inequality in Australia.

Don Watson will be in conversation with Mark Kenny on is quarterly essay On the US Election, in which Don offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other.

Following a welcome to country by Ngunnawal elder Aunty Violet Sheridan, Darren Rix and Craig Cormick’s new book Warra Warra Wai How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People, will be launched by Karen Mundine, CEO of Reconciliation Australia.