Hilary McPhee’s Memoirs of a Young Bastard: The Diaries of Tim Burstall, are among the most evocative Australian diaries of modern times. Burstall can write. He has an eye for the telling detail, an unerring ear for cant and pomposity and, most endearingly, an ability to mock himself—always from the perspective of a bloke of his generation. Hilary McPhee is a writer and publisher.

She will be in conversation with Hannie Rayson.

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