2018 First Berry Conversation
Finally some instinct rises. She runs her tongue over her teeth, furred like her mind. She hears her own thick voice deep inside her ears when she says, ‘I need to know where I am’.
The man stands there, tall and narrow, hand still on the doorknob, surprised. He says, almost in sympathy, ‘Oh, sweetie. You need to know what you are.’
A story told over three seasons that reveals long-hidden truths about power, morality and judgment. With extraordinary echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale and Lord of the Flies, The Natural Way of Things is a compulsively readable, scarifying and deeply moving contemporary novel. It confirms Charlotte Wood’s position as one of our most thoughtful, provocative and fearless truth-tellers, as she unflinchingly reveals us and our world to ourselves.
Tickets on sale from 1 February for our first 2018 Berry Conversation with Charlotte Wood and Susan Wyndham to be held:
Date: 25th March, 2018
Venue: The Berry Public School
Time: 3.00pm
Purchase from the Berry Music Centre or through www.trybooking.com.au. For all enquiries, please email berryconversations@gmail.com
Charlotte Wood in conversation with Susan Wyndham
Prize-winning novelist, Charlotte Wood will be sharing the stage with former literary editorof The Sydney Morning Herald, Susan Wyndham at out next Berry Conversations Inc event in March, 2018.
Charlotte, described in The Australian as ‘one of our most original and provocative writers”, is the author of five novels and two books of non-fiction. The Natural Way of Things won the 2016 Stella Prize and Indie Book of the Year as well as being the joint winner of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for Fiction.
Susan in her career as a journalist has been literary editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, editor of Good Weekend magazine, New York correspondent for The Australian and a deputy editor of The Herald. She is the author of Life In His Hands: The True Story of a Neurosurgeon and a Pianist, and has edited and contributed to several other books.
Date: 25 March, 2018
Venue: Berry Public School Hall
Time: 2-4.15 pm
Tickets: $30 (includes refreshments)
Tickets will go on sale 1 February at the Berry Music Centre or online at www.trybooking.com.au. We are unable to take phone bookings nor will tickets be available for purchase at the door.
Enquiries to enquiries@berryconversations.org.au
Bob Brown in conversation in August
We are thrilled to announce that the speakers for the next Berry Conversation will be Bob Brown, the former Senator and Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens, and Peter Thompson, former ABC broadcaster, director of the Centre for Leadership, and author of Bob Brown of the Franklin River (1985).
Date: 20 August, 2017
Venue: Berry Public School Hall
Time: 2-4.15 pm
Tickets: $30 (includes refreshments)
Tickets will go on sale 1 July at the Berry Music Centre or online at www.trybooking.com.au. There will be no phone bookings, nor will tickets be available for purchase at the door.
Enquiries to enquiries@berryconversations.org.au