2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival

By Perry Middlemiss on July 4, 2008 1:05 PM

Some dates of interest relating to the 2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival:

July 16, Wednesday 12:30 - 1:30pm A special preview of the program will be held. BMW Edge, Federation Square Corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne

July 16, Friday Release of the festival program.
August 22, Friday to August 31, Sunday The festival itself.

You can get further details from the Festival's website.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
The seventh and last book in the series. You get this far and you have to finish it off.

Why She Loves Him by Wendy James
Short stories from the author of Out of the Silence and The Steele Diaries.

Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Macbride's fifth DS McRae novel - hard to see it getting more gruesome than this.

State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

2008 Melbourne Writers' Festival

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