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Craving great reads? Get the jump on OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words!

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Explore our OzAsia Festival's Weekend of Words authors' books before the big weekend.

Hossein Asgari

  • Only Sound Remains
  • Desolation

Shankari Chandran

  • Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens
  • Unfinished Business

Olivia de Zilva

  • Eggshell
  • Plastic Budgie

Sara Haddad

  • The Sunbird

Yumna Kassab

  • Politica
  • The Theory of Everything

Ratih Kumala

  • Cigarette Girl

Siang Lu

  • Ghost Cities
  • The Whitewash

Steve MinOn

  • First Name Second Name

Mirandi Riwoe

  • Stone Sky Gold Mountain
  • Sunbirds

Saman Shad

  • The Matchmaker
  • The Sex Lives of Married Women

Sandhya Parappukkaran 

  • Stay for Dinner 
  • Words That Taste Like Home 

Datsun Tran

  • Then and Now

Queenie Chan

  • The Dreaming

Joo Dong-geun

  • All of Us are Dead

Stephen Kok

  • Moon Goddess

Durkhanai Ayubi

  • Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen

Elana Benjamin

  • Indian Jewish Food

Aarti Betigeri

  • Growing Up Indian in Australia (editor)

Kirsten Han

  • The Singapore I Recognise: Essays On Home, Community and Hope

Cheng Lei

  • A Memoir of Freedom

Quah Ee Ling

  • Fire Dragon Feminism

Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa

  • Fully Sikh

Sarah Malik

  • Desi Girl

Sashi Perera

  • Standstill

Qin Qin

  • Model Minority Gone Rogue

Samah Sabawi

  • Cactus Pear for My Beloved

Kumi Taguchi

  • The Good Daughter

Manisha Anjali

  • Naag Mountain

Hasib Hourani

  • rock flight

Thuy On

  • Decadence
  • Essence

Grace Yee 

  • Chinese Fish 
  • Joss: A History

Prasanthi Ram

  • Nine Yard Sarees

Malachi Edwin Vethamani

  • Have I Got Something To Tell You

Keshe Chow 

  • For No Mortal Creature

Ann Liang

  • I Am Not Jessica Chen
  • Never Thought I'd End Up Here

Lyn Dickens

  • Salt Upon the Water

Speakers

OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words is holding sessions and workshops with a litany of acclaimed and award-winning writers.

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