Flanagan talks with Adams

Ben, Fullers Bookshop
Tasmania’s leading novelist Richard Flanagan will discuss his new novel, Wanting, with Australian broadcasting legend Phillip Adams at the Theatre Royal at 7.30pm on Wednesday 26th November. This event, proudly hosted by Fullers Bookshop, is surely the highlight of Tasmania’s 2008 literary calendar.

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Richard Flanagan in conversation with Phillip Adams at the Theatre Royal

Tasmania’s leading novelist Richard Flanagan will discuss his new novel, Wanting, with Australian broadcasting legend Phillip Adams at the Theatre Royal at 7.30pm on Wednesday 26th November. This event, proudly hosted by Fullers Bookshop, is surely the highlight of Tasmania’s 2008 literary calendar.

Wanting has received rave reviews all around Australia – the opportunity to hear its author in discussion with one of our nation’s most perceptive interviewers rarely comes to Tasmania, and should be grasped with both hands. Circling events central to our state’s history, Wanting is an important and provocative novel that challenged how we understand ourselves the desires that shape our lives.

It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre of the world, the most famous novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, realises he is about to abandon his wife, risk his name and forever after be altered because of his inability any longer to control his intense passion.

Connecting the two events are the most celebrated explorer of the age, Sir John Franklin – then governor of Van Diemen’s Land – and his wife, Lady Jane, who adopt Mathinna, seen as one of the last of a dying race, as an experiment.

Inspired by historical events, Wanting is a novel about art, love, and the way in which life is finally determined never by reason, but only ever by wanting.

Regarded internationally as one of Australia’s pre-eminent novelists, Richard Flanagan’s multi-award winning novels, Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish and The Unknown Terrorist have been published to popular success and critical acclaim in twenty-five countries. He directed a feature film version of The Sound of One Hand Clapping and most recently collaborated with Baz Luhrmann on the script for Luhrmann’s epic, Australia.

Richard Flanagan will be discussing Wanting with Phillip Adams at the Theatre Royal at 7.30pm on Wednesday 26th November. For more information, please contact Benny Walter at Fullers Bookshop on 6224 2488.

Benny Walter

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