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Words on the Waves Writers Festival: HUMAN/NATURE

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Event

Words on the Waves Writers Festival: HUMAN/NATURE


Time & date

11:30am - 12:30pm, 1st June 2025


Location

Ocean Beach Surf Lifesaving Club View map

176 The Esplanade, Umina Beach, NSW 2257


Tickets

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About

James BradleyCharlotte McConaghy & Nardi Simpson . Moderator: Georgie McLean

Nature – human and wild – is the beating heart of these three works. James Bradley and Charlotte McConaghy have penned compelling thrillers set in familiar locations transformed by rising sea levels in Landfall and Wild Dark Shore. Nardi Simpson brings us The Belburd, and a fierce young poet who buries her words around the city on the lands her ancestors roamed.

Book

Wild Dark Shore

WINNER OF THE 2026 INDIE BOOK OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE 2025 DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN’S PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 STELLA AWARD
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2025!
DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER 2025

'SPELLBINDING . . . Exceptionally imagined, thoroughly humane.' – Washington Post
'Abounds with EVOCATIVE nature writing.' – The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times bestselling novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore.

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