Join us for an in-conversation with Emily Maguire, multi-award winning author of Love Objects and The Isolated Incident. Inspired by the fabled Pope Joan, Rapture is a powerful exploration of gender, identity, and faith. For centuries people have argued over the story of a female pope. Catholic cover-up or anti-clerical invention? Feminist icon or symbol of women’s inherent wickedness?

Includes drinks, nibbles, book sales and author signing.

TICKETS WILL OPEN FOR BOOKING ON 5 NOVEMBER.

MEET EMILY

Emily Maguire is the author of seven novels and three non-fiction books. Her 2016 novel, An Isolated Incident, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and her book Love Objects was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Fiction Book of the Year in 2022.

She was twice named as a Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year, was the 2018/2019 Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney and the 2023 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow at the Australian National University. Emily has an MA in literature and works as a mentor to young and emerging writers.