Book Launch – Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent

6:30pm    05th May 2025    The Old Courthouse, 45 Henderson St, Fremantle WA 

Join us to celebrate awarding-winning Australian author Hannah Kent as she launches Always Home, Always Homesick, a remarkable literary memoir and love letter to her muse, Iceland.

In 2003, seventeen-year-old Australian exchange student Hannah Kent arrives at Keflavík Airport in the middle of the Icelandic winter.

That night she sleeps off her jet lag and bewilderment in the National Archives of Iceland, unaware that, years later, she will return to the same building to write Burial Rites, the haunting story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, the last woman executed in Iceland. The novel will go on to launch the author’s stellar literary career and capture the hearts of readers across the globe.

Always Home, Always Homesick is Hannah Kent’s exquisite love letter to a land that has forged a nation of storytellers, her ode to the transcendent power of creativity, and her invitation to us all to join her in the realms of mystery, spirit and wonder.

Hannah will be in-conversation with local journalist Ali Colvin. Light food will be provided, with drinks available from the bar. Tickets are $5.00 and available here

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