From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile, comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging, and the precious fragility of life.

Join acclaimed Yuwaalaraay storyteller and performer Nardi Simpson as she launches her brilliant new novel at Bondi Pavilion.

Ginny Dilboong is a young poet, fierce and deadly. She's making sense of the world and her place in it, grappling with love, family, and the spaces in which to create her art. Like powerful women before her, Ginny hugs the edges of waterways, and though she is a daughter of Country, the place that shapes her is not hers. Determined and brave, Ginny seeks to protect the truth of others while learning her own. The question is how?

And, all the while, others are watching. Some old, some new. They are the sound of the belburd as it echoes through the world; the sound of cars and trucks and trains. They are in trees and paper and the shape of ideas. They are the builder and the built. Everything, even Ginny, is because of them.

Grab a bundle and save

Prepurchase your copy of The Belburd when booking your ticket and receive a discount on the recommended retail price of the book. Orders will be available for collection at the venue from the team at Gertrude & Alice Bookstore pop-up. Discount only applies to pre-purchased books bought as part of the book bundle. Nardi Simpson will be signing books after the talk.

Event information

Refreshments will be available from the Theatre Bar before the show.

Join us at 6pm for a beautiful Smoking ceremony performed by Matthew Doyle on the Bondi Pavilion forecourt, beachside.

Tickets are General Admission. Seats are not allocated.

To book accessible seating, please complete the Accessibility Requirements section when registering for your ticket.