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Frances Whiting: the Best Kind of Beautiful Brisbane

Fri 12 May 2023

Frances Whiting + Matthew Condon

Queensland Terrace, slq

Main Festival

BWF028

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Frances Whiting may be known to millions of readers as one of Australia’s most popular newspaper and magazine columnists, but it is in her extraordinary novels – Walking on Trampolines and The Best Kind of Beautiful – that her work transcends, exploring the landscapes of Brisbane and its surrounds with a brilliant and empathic eye. She talks to Matthew Condon about the physical and emotional impact of place and why Queensland produces writers unique to the rest of the country. Curated by Matthew Condon.

#Artists

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.

Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon is an award-winning journalist, writer and podcaster. His novels include The Motorcycle Café, The Pillow Fight and The Trout Opera. He is also the author of the bestselling Three Crooked Kings trilogy, an investigation into Queensland police and political corruption. In 2019 he was awarded an OAM for services to the community. He is a senior writer for The Australian.