#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
6:30pm, Tuesday 13th May 2025
Concert Hall, Old Museum Brisbane
480 Gregory Terrace, Bowen Hills QLD
One of the breakout hits of 2024, Kaliane Bradley’s genre-bending, swashbuckling The Ministry of Time has delighted readers with its acerbic humour and inventive spin on history. Bringing together a colourful cast of characters, uprooted from different chapters of history, The Ministry of Time is the sexy, surprising story of a disenchanted bureaucrat and the 19th-century explorer she falls in love with… an office romance quite literally for the ages.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear the dazzlingly original Kaliane Bradley in conversation with the multi-talented Helen Marshall.
Click here to book now. Tickets from $44 and books available for pre-purchase.
#Artists
Kaliane Bradley
Kaliane Bradley is a British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London. Her short stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Catapult, Somesuch Stories and The Willowherb Review, among others. She was the winner of the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize and the 2022 V. S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Her debut novel, The Ministry of Time, was an instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and a global sensation. It was chosen as one of the Observer's 'Best Debut Novels of 2024' and was a Barack Obama summer pick; it was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, a Books Are My Bag award, the Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.
Helen Marshall
Dr Helen Marshall is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award for her three collections of short stories. Her debut novel The Migration argued for the need to remain hopeful, even in the worst circumstances. It was one of The Guardian’s top science fiction books of the year. Her second novel The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl who Loved Death will be released in June.
