Jock Serong’s third novel, On the Java Ridge, is a confronting, alternately tender, funny and justifiably angry book. Set in the waters between Australia and Indonesia, it will fire renewed debate about where Australia’s refugee policies are taking us and challenge us to stop looking the other way.

Mark Brandi, whose debut literary crime novel, Wimmera, is a Readings favourite, will talk to Serong about the book and its ideas.

Free, but please book here.