#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
7:45pm, Tuesday 24th February 2026
Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St, New Farm
Simon Winchester OBE is a master of narrative non-fiction. Over the course of his remarkable career, he’s published more than 30 bestsellers on everything from natural disasters and religious conflicts to mesmerising stories of maverick inventors and eccentric scientists. His latest book is a wonderfully entertaining history of a powerful force that we can feel but not see: wind. For centuries, humans have vested this element with all manner of spiritual, philosophical, poetic, environmental and scientific meanings – but where, in our warming world, will it take us next? Join Winchester in conversation with the delightful Ashley Hay for an evening that promises to change the way you think about the weather.
#Artists
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester is the New York Times best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman. His recent titles include The Perfectionists and Land. Winchester was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to journalism and literature. He lives in Massachusetts and New York City.
Ashley Hay
Ashley Hay is a Brisbane-based novelist, essayist, mentor and editor whose work includes A Hundred Small Lessons and Gum: The Story of Eucalypts and Their Champions. Her work has been published in Australia, the UK, the US and in translation, and has been recognised by awards including the Australian Society for Literature’s Colin Roderick Prize, the UNSW Press/Bragg Prize for Science Writing and Eucalypt Australia’s Dahl Medal. A former editor of Griffith Review, she lives and works in Brisbane.
