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Robbie Arnott: Dusk
ZoΓ« Foster Blake: Things Will Calm Down Soon
Ben Macintyre: The Siege
China Past, Present, Future
Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt
The Moriarty Sisters
Family Secrets
Out of This World
Harriet Walter: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said
The F Word
Turmoil and Tyranny
Kate Grenville: Unsettled
Ferdia Lennon: Glorious Exploits
Colm TΓ³ibΓn: From Brooklyn to Long Island
Home and Homesick
Yael van der Wouden: The Safekeep
Jessica Townsend: In Conversation
Untrue Crime
Torrey Peters: Stag Dance
Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time
Trumpocalypse Now
Marian Keyes: My Favourite Mistake
Philippe Sands: 38 Londres Street
Mariana Enriquez: Mastering the Macabre
Peter Beinart: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza
Culinary Culture
Samantha Harvey: Orbital
The Art and Science of AI
Queer Love and Longing
Barrie Cassidy and Friends: State of the Nation
Closing Address: Anna Funder: Bears Out There
Past and Future of Indigenous Recognition
Making a Writer
State of the Art: The Novel