April 24: At Paperchain Manuka at 5.30pm will be the launch of The Winter Palace by Paul Morgan. RSVP info@paperchainbookstore.com.au or phone 6295 6723.

April 24: Ozlit Book Club at Muse at 6.30pm will discuss journalist Melinda Han's collection of refugee stories, The Lucky Ones. See: musecanberra.com.au.

April 30: James Bradley will be in conversation with Beejay Silcox on his new book Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, a reckoning with humankind's complex relationship with the ocean. Vote of thanks by Tim Hollo. Kambri Cinema, ANU. Registrations at anu.edu.au/events.

May 4: At Harry Hartog ANU will be the launch of Belinda Cranston's debut novel The Changing Room. Free, registration essential: harryhartog.com.au.

May 4: Canberra author JJ Carpenter is launching her debut novel The Corner of Her Eye, a story of the supernatural, in the Library Room of the Kingston Hotel at 2pm.

May 7: At 6pm, Hugh Mackay will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on his new book, The Way We Are, lessons from a lifetime of listening. Kambri Cinema, ANU. Registrations at anu.edu.au/events.

May 8: B.M. Carroll will discuss her book One of Us Is Missing with Petronella McGovern. See: bookcow.com.au.

May 9: At Paperchain at 5pm is an event to celebrate the book James Joyce: A Life, and to remember its author Gabrielle Carey (1959-2023). See: paperchainbookstore.com.au.

May 13: Miles Franklin award-winning author Shankari Chandran will be in conversation with Karen Viggers on her new novel Safe Haven. Kambri Cinema, ANU. Registrations at anu.edu.au/events.

May 16: Frank Bongiorno will be in conversation with Jennifer Reyner on the new updated edition, written with Nick Dyrenfurth, of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party. Kambri Cinema, ANU. Registrations at anu.edu.au/events.

May 19: At Muse at 3pm, meet the editor of Growing Up Torres Strait Islander, Samantha Faulkner, in conversation with MARION chair Emma Batchelor. See: musecanberra.com.au.

May 22: At 5pm at Paperchain is a book event with Penny Olsen, author of Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters. See: paperchainbookstore.com.au.

May 29: The Book Cow will host the launch of Power and Obsession by Catherine McCullagh at 6pm. See: bookcow.com.au.

June 15: At Muse at 4pm, Amy Brown, author of My Brilliant Sister, will be in conversation with Canberra Writers Festival artistic director Beejay Silcox. See: musecanberra.com.au.

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