What writers read

6-7pm, Tuesday 24 March 2026 at Five Leaves Left, 41 Victoria St Hobart

Join us in March as award-winning author Kate Kruimink talks with Jane Rawson about Adam Thorpe’s Ulverton, of which Hilary Mantel said, ‘Sometimes you forget that it is a novel, and believe for a moment that you are really hearing the voice of the dead’. If it’s good enough for Hilary, it’s certainly good enough for us: come along and find out why you’ve never heard of this book, despite it perhaps being the best book ever written.

Tickets include a can of wine or mocktail and you can buy one here for $10.

Kate Kruimink is a writer from southern Lutruwita. Her 2024 novel Heartsease won the Tasmanian Premier’s Prize for Fiction, and her novella Astrea won the UK’s Weatherglass Prize. Her first book, A Treacherous Country, won the 2020 Vogel/Australian’s Literary Award, was shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and longlisted in the UK for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Kate is the fiction editor for Island magazine.

WWR is supported by the City of Hobart.