Books and Ideas at Montalto
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The Wheeler Centre presents thoughtful conversations about Australian literature – away from the lights of Melbourne, at Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove on the Mornington Peninsula.

Charlotte Wood

How do we maintain friendships as we age? How do these friendships impact who we are – or who we become? And … exactly how should we grow old? Charlot...
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Andrea Goldsmith

How do we become estranged from ourselves – and from the people and places that have moulded us? What’s the way back? And how can we begin again? Thes...
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Tony Birch

Tony Birch is among Australia’s finest living writers. A poet, activist and academic, as well as an acclaimed novelist and short-story writer, Birch’s...
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Simon Schama

Simon Schama is a familiar figure on the BBC as well as a professor at Columbia University, and he’s produced multi-volume histories of Britain, docum...
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Rick Morton

One Hundred Years of Dirt – Rick Morton’s unflinching memoir – tells of growing up on a cattle station in Queensland: of witnessing a horrific acciden...
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Meg and Tom Keneally

Tom and Meg Keneally are an unlikely crack novel-writing team who write about an unlikely crack murder-investigation team. Tom Keneally is an icon of ...
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Jock Serong

Jock Serong is known as an author of gripping books about crime and catastrophe. His stories spark and seethe with tense emotional and political detai...
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Carly Findlay

‘In fairytales, the characters who look different are often cast as the villain or monsters. It's only when they shed their unconventional skin that t...
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Richard Cornish

As the long-running and trusted ‘Brain Food’ columnist for Fairfax, Richard Cornish tackles food and cooking questions from readers around Australia. ...
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Judy Horacek

If you like your cartoon hairstyles sharp and your comic observations sharper, Judy Horacek is your cartoonist. One of Australia’s most successful car...
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