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Thomas Keneally at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival
English - October 23, 2019 09:50 - 59 minutes - 41 MBBooks Arts edbookfest author events Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Booker Prize-winning Australian author of Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally comes to the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 having woven another masterpiece in The Book of Science and Antiquities. Ancient human remains are found in Western Australia, causing controversy: was the man Aboriginal, or does he signify an even older culture? Documentary maker Shelby investigates, sure that ‘Learned Man’ connects the planet’s earliest inhabitants with our troubled environmental future. Hear Keneally discuss the novel live with Lesley McDowell.