SUZIE MILLER: PRIMA FACIE Suzie Miller’s disturbingly prescient play, Prima Facie, dramatises the price sexual assault victims pay for speaking out. This blistering one-woman show wowed audiences on Broadway and the West End, winning Suzie an Olivier Award and Killing Eve favourite Jodie Comer a Tony for her performance as the brilliant young barrister who, one sickening night, finds herself thrust into the flawed justice system. Put the courts on trial with Suzie and writer and podcaster Nicole Abadee, as they discuss Prima Facie’s adaptation into a gripping novel and screenplay set to star Cynthia Erivo. Supported by UNSW Sydney.

VIET THANH NGUYEN: A MAN OF TWO FACES Tragicomic memoir from Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sympathizer “I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces”, begins Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel, The Sympathizer, the internationally acclaimed bestseller that was recently adapted into an HBO series starring Sandra Oh and Robert Downey Jr. This duality is also at the heart of Viet’s highly original memoir, A Man of Two Faces, which details with sardonic wit and incisive analysis the double consciousness of a Vietnamese refugee growing up in North America. Listen to the celebrated author, hailed as “a conscience of American literature” (The New Yorker), in conversation with Benjamin Law. Viet Thanh Nguyen appears thanks to the support of Fiona and Matthew Playfair.

JULIAN BORGER: I SEEK A KIND PERSON An enthralling memoir of family history and the Holocaust’s resonance through generations “I seek a kind person who will educate my intelligent boy, aged 11.” This extraordinary 1938 personal advertisement is the starting point for Julian Borger’s’ quest to understand his father’s past. An enthralling memoir, family history and detective story all in one, Borger brings to life in vivid detail the Holocaust escape stories of a handful of children and families, and traces the resonance of these events through generations. Supported by ARA.