The Year of The Farmer

Sun 8 Sep 2019

Rosalie Ham

Queensland Terrace, State Library of Queensland

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#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Join internationally best-selling author, Rosalie Ham as she talks about her latest novel, The Year of the Farmer. The dry heat isn’t the only tough battle, as a small outback town dives into dramas of its own.

#Artist

Rosalie Ham

Rosalie Ham is a Melbourne based teacher and writer. Her forth novel, The Year of the Farmer, is a drama about love, justice and irrigation. It echoes her previous novels, most notably the best selling The Dressmaker (also a film starring Kate Winslet and Judy Davis), in it's keen eye for the ridiculous, and for the pretensions and prejudices we all share, which means her writing is always entertaining.

#Moderator

Frances Whiting

Frances Whiting is one of Australia's best known and respected writers. As national senior feature writer for News Magazines, she has won many journalism awards, including the Clarions Outstanding Contribution to Journalism prize in 2023. Frances has a national column in News Limited weekend magazines, and a weekly column which - at 28 years - is Australia's longest running Sunday column. She has written two best sellers, Walking on Trampolines and The Best Kind of Beautiful, as well as two collections of her much loved columns, Oh To Be a Marching Girl, and That's a Home Run Tiger.