Beautiful Revolutionary: Laura Elizabeth Woollett at the Brisbane Writers Festival

Join Laura Elizabeth Woollett with Claire Ashman at the Brisbane Writers Festival for a discussion around her thrilling new novel Beautiful Revolutionary.

Beautiful Revolutionary is a meticulously researched, elegantly written, and utterly engrossing novel that tells the story of the People’s Temple cult. This book explores the allure of the real-life charismatic leader who destroyed the lives of so many people. In masterful prose, Laura Elizabeth Woollett (author of The Love of a Bad Man) painstakingly examines what happens when one woman is pulled into Jones’s orbit — an orbit it would prove impossible to leave.

About the author
Laura Elizabeth Woollett was born and raised in Perth, Western Australia. In 2012, she completed an honours degree in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. In 2014, she was awarded a Wheeler Centre/Readings Foundation Hot Desk Fellowship and the John Marsden/Hachette Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as one of the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival’s ‘30 Under 30’. Her short-story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and the 2017 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction.

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Laura Elizabeth Woollett

Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The…

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