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Words After Dark – ‘The Settlement’ with Jock Serong
October 10, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Antipodes Bookshop & Gallery invites you to An Evening with Jock Serong
On the windswept point of an island at the edge of Van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women. He has gathered together, under varying degrees of coercion and duress, the last of the Tasmanians, or so he believes. His purpose is to save them—from a number of things, but most pressingly from the murderous intent of the pastoral settlers on their country.
In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself.
Jock Serong’s novels have received the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction, the Colin Roderick Award and the inaugural Staunch Prize (UK). He lives with his family on Victoria’s far west coast.
Monday 10th October at 6pm
Tickets are $10pp includes a glass of your choice and nibbles on arrival
Bookings essential | Numbers strictly limited
