Plenty is happening across Sydney and Queensland — come along, meet the authors, and celebrate new Australian stories.

Told with honesty and heart, Amy Coomer’s latest novel is a deeply moving exploration of identity, grief, and belonging. It’s about what happens when the life you’ve known falls apart, and you have to find out who you are all over again.

In Big Con, acclaimed journalist and author Trevor Thompson unearths the astonishing life of Thomas Shortel, who fled Australia under a cloud of scandal and reinvented himself as Con Jones—Canada’s most influential sporting figure of the early 20th century.