Nicholas Hasluck ruminates with Robert Drewe
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Aboutđź“Ť The Lane Bookshop
đź“… Friday 13th March
đź• Doors: 5:30pm | Discussion: 6pm
Join us for an evening of discussion between two or Perth's finest writers, Nicholas Hasluck and Robert Drewe, about Hasluck's latest book, Ruminations.
🎟️ Tickets
✨ General Admission – $15
📚 Book Lover – $39.99 - includes a copy of Ruminations (RRP $49.95)
ABOUT THE BOOK
A judge, novelist and arts adviser, Nicholas Hasluck’s work includes acute appraisals of people he met or wrote about along the way. His recollections cast light on political controversies, as in Menzies Versus Evatt. The Whitlam Dismissal Revisited. The Referendum Puzzle. From Pericles to Trump. And also on the personal and at times surprising pursuits of various lawyers, artists and writers, such as Ian Callinan: A Voice for Law and Literature, or Anthony Powell’s Mosaic, or Saving Dorothy Hewett. The author’s ruminations about trends and personalities are always underpinned by a keen awareness of communal values: the way things were and the way they could be in times to come.
ABOUT NICHOLAS HASLUCK
Nicholas Hasluck was born in 1942. The son of Sir Paul Hasluck, a federal minister in the Menzies government and then the governor-general of Australia, Nicholas spent a considerable amount of his early years in Canberra, before studying law at the University of Western Australia and Oxford. After completing his studies, he worked briefly in Fleet Street before returning to Australia to work as a barrister. Later in his career he became a Supreme Court (WA) judge, and also became well known as a novelist, poet and short-story writer.
ABOUT ROBERT DREWE
Robert Drewe is the author of eight novels, four books of short stories, two plays, two memoirs and four other works of non-fiction. His work has been widely translated, won national and international prizes and been adapted for film, television, theatre and radio. During his time as a journalist and editor of newspapers and magazines, he won two Walkley Awards for journalism. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Western Australia, La Trobe University in Melbourne, the South Bank Centre at Royal Festival Hall, London, and at Brixton Prison in London.
Date
Friday 13 March 2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+08)Location
The Lane Bookshop
52C Old Theatre Lane, CLAREMONT WA 6010
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