#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Trent Dalton’s new novel is receiving rave reviews around the world. Join him as he chats with his friend and fellow writer Frances Whiting about his story of how young Molly Hook searches for light and magic against the harsh backdrop of wartime Darwin.
#Artists
Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He’s a two-time Walkley Award winner; three-time Kennedy Award winner for excellence in NSW journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. In 2011, he was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland journalism.
His debut literary fiction novel, Boy Swallows Universe, was published by Harper Collins in June 2018.
Frances Whiting
Frances Whiting is one of Australia’s best known writers. Her debut novel Walking on Trampolines released to critical and popular acclaim in 2013 is a best seller in Australia the United States and Canada. In 2015 Walking on Trampolines was translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Slovenian, and Czechoslovakian. Frances’s second book The Best Kind of Beautiful released by Pan Macmillan in 2019, is a best seller and is currently in treatment for a television series with Escapade Media in Sydney. A senior feature writer for Queensland's premier weekend magazine Q Weekend in the Courier Mail, Frances is also a much loved columnist for the Sunday Mail and other Sunday newspapers around Australia with her weekly column now in its 24th year.
