{"id":224277,"date":"2026-07-25T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=224277"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:58:41","slug":"heresies-richard-flanagan-with-peter-george","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/event\/heresies-richard-flanagan-with-peter-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Heresies | Richard Flanagan with Peter George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New from the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain&#8217;s leading prize for non-fiction):\u00a0<em>Heresies<\/em>, a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches by Richard Flanagan.<\/p>\n<p>From Manus to MONA to birds to the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the growing corrosion of democracy, from Salman Rushdie to the Segal Report, family and love, Flanagan\u2019s non-fiction writings carry the author\u2019s trademark elegance, subversive wit, and humanity.<\/p>\n<p>This showcase of Richard Flanagan\u2019s heretical brilliance over twenty years speaks to the heart of our troubled times now. It demonstrates, again and again, the moral urgency of literature.<\/p>\n<p>For the launch of the new book, Richard will be in conversation with Peter George for a discussion of many of the most pressing issues of our time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book and ticket package<\/strong><br \/>\nPurchase a book and ticket deal and save nearly 20% on your copy of\u00a0<i>Heresies\u00a0<\/i>(RRP $36.99).<br \/>\nBook to be collected at the launch.<br \/>\nPackage price: Ticket price + $30.<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Richard Flanagan has been described by the\u00a0<strong>Washington Post\u00a0<\/strong>as \u2018<em>one of our greatest living novelists<\/em>\u2019 and as \u2018<em>among the most versatile writers in the English language<\/em>\u2019 by the\u00a0New\u00a0York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for\u00a0<em><strong>Gould\u2019s Book of Fish<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>and the Booker Prize for\u00a0<strong><em>The Narrow Road to the Deep North<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<strong><em>Question 7<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Peter George is a former journalist, president of the Neighbours of Fish Farming, and now the Independent MP for the electorate of Franklin.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New from the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain&#8217;s leading prize for non-fiction):\u00a0Heresies, a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":224278,"template":"","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[21],"class_list":["post-224277","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-book-launch","cat_book-launch"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/224277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/224277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224280,"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/224277\/revisions\/224280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224277"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.petergeorgeforfranklin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=224277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}