Hosted by the Australian National University and National Library of Australia, award-winning writer Kate Grenville discusses her latest book The Case Against Fragrance with Gia Metherell, Former Literary Editor, The Canberra Times .

Based on careful research into the science of scent, The Case Against Fragrance is a beautifully written investigation into the fragrance industry, it will make you see-and smell-the world differently.

NOTICE: We ask all attendees to please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, and other fragrances for the comfort of other participants to this event.

Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. Her bestselling novel The Secret River received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Idea of Perfection won the Orange Prize. Grenville’s other novels include Sarah Thornhill, The Lieutenant, Lilian’s Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History. In 2015 she published One Life, an acclaimed account of her mother.

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