Conscious Coupling

Christine Breen had her first novel, Her Name Is Rose, published when she was 60. Her second novel, Accidents, is finished but not yet published. Her month-by-month account of life in her garden, In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. 

Anne Buist is Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and author of the psychological thrillers Medea’s Curse, Dangerous to Know and This I Would Kill For. 

Graeme Simsion is a screenwriter, playwright, and the internationally bestselling author of The Rosie Project, which received the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2012. He has since published The Rosie Effect and The Best of Adam Sharp. 

Niall Williams is the author of nine novels, including History of the Rain, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize; Four Letters of Love, which was made into a major motion picture; This Is Happiness, which was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Book of the Year; and most recently, Time of the Child. 

Katrina Strickland is the editor of Good Weekend magazine, which she has helmed since June 2017. Prior to that she was editor of The Australian Financial Review Magazine and has held arts editor roles at both the AFR and The Australian. Her book Affairs of the Art, about the widows and widowers who control the estates of some of Australia’s most renowned artists, was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2013.