Tony Jones to launch Queenscliffe Literary Festival program

RENOWNED Australian journalist Tony Jones will headline this year’s Queenscliffe Literary Festival (QLF) program launch on March 5.

The ABC journalist and former Q&A host will discuss his own literary works: two political thrillers The Twentieth Man and In Darkness Visible, with Melbourne crime writer JP Pomare.

Queenscliffe Literary Festival president Jane Finemore alongside the QLF committee will discuss this year’s planned program and festival events, scheduled for the three middle weekends of May (8-24).

“The program will include a fabulous lunch at Basil’s Farm, workshops, a new play by a local playwright, free school events and a dynamic schedule of ‘in-conversation’ sessions with nearly 50 presenters covering a very broad range of topics,” Ms Finemore said.

The first Saturday of the festival (May 9) welcomes celebrated comic author Kathy Lette to the Town Hall at 6pm, Ms Lette will introduce her latest novel HRT Husband Replacement Therapy (to be published in April).

On May 16 at 6pm, the ABC’s Virginia Trioli will be in conversation with Melbourne writer Sophie Cunningham and will be talking about Trioli’s Generation F: Why We Still Struggle with Sex and Power.

The final May 24 at 4pm will conclude the program with Australia’s leading thinker on climate and energy policy, Ross Garnaut, whose latest book Superpower offers a road map for a low carbon future; he will be in conversation with Susan Moylan-Coombs.

Tickets for the launch event on March 5 are $25 and selling quickly, so don’t miss out.

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