The Art of Misremembering

Geraldine Brooks is an author and journalist. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2005 novel March. Her novels Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book and The Secret Chord were New York Times bestsellers, and Year of Wonders was an international bestseller, translated into more than 25 languages. Her new book, Memorial Days, is a memoir centred on the loss of her husband, Tony Horwitz. 

Peter Godwin is the author of six non-fiction books, including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun. His book The Fear was selected by The New Yorker as a best book of the year. His most recent book is the memoir Exit Wounds. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia, and served as president of the PEN American Center.

Richard Buckham worked for many years at the ABC, starting as a radio producer in the early 1980s. He spent a year in London with the BBC in 1989. After working in theatre and opera in the 90s, he returned to the ABC where he was arts editor at Radio National, manager of ABC Classic for nine years, and head of Arts until 2020.