Book launch

Question 7: Richard Flanagan in conversation with Richard Fidler

Richard Flanagan is back with his most personal novel yet.

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.

By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die.

At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.

To celebrate the launch of his latest novel, Flanagan will be in conversation with none other than ABC Radio’s Richard Fidler, for a live recording of Conversations.

Richard Flanagan’s novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish. A rapid on the Franklin River is named after him.

Richard Fidler is a presenter of Conversations on ABC Radio, which attracts a large listening audience around the nation, and is the most popular podcast in Australia. He is also the author of several bestselling books that blend history with travel memoir and mythology: Ghost Empire, Saga Land, and The Golden Maze.  His most recent work, The Book of Roads and Kingdoms, is the winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

Join the two Richards at the Theatre Royal.

Tickets can be purchased at the Theatre Royal box office, or through their website.