Unsettled: Kate Grenville in conversation with Nicole Abadee

After the success of her two best known works, The Secret River, adapted for stage and television, and Restless Dolly Maunder, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, literary legend Kate Grenville is still grappling with what it means to be a descendant of colonisation in Australia.

Delve deep with Kate as she reframes her family’s history in Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place, and asks, ‘what does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?’

Kate Grenville has published 18 books. Her nine novels include the bestseller The Secret River, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Others have also won international and Australian prizes, been adapted for stage and screen, and appear in translation. Kate's non-fiction work includes biographies and books about the writing process. Her latest book is Unsettled: A journey through time and place. 

Nicole Abadee is an interviewer, facilitator and journalist who writes for Good Weekend Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, Spectrum and Australian Book Review. She has been a regular interviewer at writers’ festivals including Sydney Writers Festival, Adelaide Writers Week and Canberra Writers Festival. She was the curator of the Woollahra Writers’ Festival 2025. Nicole has been a literary judge, podcaster and a guest on ABC Radio to discuss books. She is a board member of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.