Booktown guests revealed

Grant, a high-profile journalist, recently released Talking to My Country, which explores issues of race and national identity. A video of a powerful speech Grant made about the impact of colonisation and discrimination of Indigenous people recently went viral on social media.

Bligh, the former Queensland premier and first female premier in Australia, published her memoir last year, Through the Wall: Reflections on Leadership, Love and Survival.

Festival artistic director Ailsa Brackley du Bois said Clunes Booktown had a history of hosting “Australian identities with a political conscience” such as Malcolm Fraser and Bob Hawke,

The festival runs April 30 to May 1.