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The BWF program will be available in The Weekend Australian July 24 - 25 and tickets to paid events will go on sale from Saturday 24 July through qtix.

In the mean time we are going to start to let slip, here on this page, a few of our big names, revealing just some of the many reasons why we're already so excited about BWF 2010!

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester's upcoming book Atlantic: A Biography of the Ocean dramatises the life of the Atlantic Ocean from its birth in the farther recesses of geological time to its eventual extinction millions of years in the future, exploring mankind's complex relationship with this immense sea, which stretches for 9 000 miles from pole to pole.

Atlantic brings to life key episodes in this compelling human drama - the age of exploration and the subsequent colonisation of the Americas, the flourishing of transatlantic commerce and the rise and fall of the slave trade, extraordinary tales of sea-borne emigration during the nineteenth century and the great naval battles that have left an indelible imprint on Atlantic history.
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Malla Nunn

Malla Nunn is a force in new crime writing today, tackling race relations, sexual tension and the harsh realities of life within the divided society of Apartheid-era South Africa.

Her debut novel A Beautiful Place to Die was published in 2008 to much critical acclaim, and her latest novel Let The Dead Lie cements Malla's place as one of Australia's most compelling and entertaining crime writers.
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Back by popular demand: Norman Doidge

Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher and author of the best-selling book The Brain That Changes Itself: personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science, Toronto-native Dr Norman Doidge travelled around the United States to meet the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity, and the people whose lives they've transformed.

Read about a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole, a woman labelled retarded who cured her deficits with brain exercises and now cures those of others, blind people who learn to see, learning disorders cured, and IQs raised.
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 Norman Doidge

Larissa Behrendt

Winner of the 2002 David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers, as well as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (South-East Asia/Pacific region), Larissa Behrendt is also a Professor of Law and Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology Sydney in her spare time.

Her latest novel, Legacy, is a compelling story about fathers and daughters and the ever-present past.

 Larissa Behrendt

All will be revealed when the full program is launched on 24 July 2010. You will be able to read extended author biographies and access author event information to ensure you do not miss your favourite authors in action. In the meantime have a look at the list of terrific, writers, thinkers and provocateurs who took part in BWF 2009.

 




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The Brisbane Writers Festival acknowledges the assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and the Department of Education and Training, and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.