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Australian author Michelle de Kretser talks to Eleanor Wachtel about hope and betrayal in her fiction, and about growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1960s.

This week, from Scotland, the quirky, original and provocative writer, A.L. Kennedy. From the complexities of sex to the spiritual aspects of bullfighting, A.L. Kennedy pushes the boundaries of convention. Eleanor Wachtel spoke to A.L. Kennedy on stage last spring at the Manulife Literary Arts Festival in Victoria.

Australian Writers Series, episode 2: Sydney author Kate Grenville turns fact into fiction and inserts women into the history of Australia in her novel Joan Makes History; Then, from Perth - novelist Elizabeth Jolley harks back to a childhood in England and life in the Australian bush.