Name: The Restless Mind of Robert Dessaix
Start: 2025-03-26
End: 2025-03-26
Location: The Wheeler Centre

Revered Australian writer Robert Dessaix casts his self-reflective eye over a writing life brimming with adventure and wisdom.

Robert Dessaix has spent his life devoted to ideas, writing himself into being again and again. A storyteller, memoirist, critic and artist, his creativity knows no bounds, and no one is safe from his pen – least of all him.

Together we celebrate Chameleon, Dessaix’s recent memoir that collects the formative episodes that have shaped and shape-shifted this essential Australian writer.

With host Michael Veitch, Dessaix explores his restless pursuit of pleasure and meaning in a landscape littered with tales of travel, love and curiosity.

Event and Ticketing Details

Dates & Times

Wednesday 26 March

6.30 - 7.30pm

Tickets

$29.50

Full

$19.50

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Location

The Wheeler Centre

176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000

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Accessibility

Accessible toilets available

Assistive Listening

Auslan interpreting available by-request

Companion tickets available

Registered Assistance Animals welcome

Wheelchair accessible

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Additional Notes

Robert Dessaix will be signing books after the event.

The bookseller for this event is Paperback Bookshop.

Featuring

Robert Dessaix

Robert Dessaix is a writer, translator and broadcaster whose best-known books are the autobiography A Mother’s Disgrace, the novels Night Letters and Corfu, and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and Arabesques ...

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Michael Veitch

Michael Veitch began his career in the 1980s writing and performing in television comedy with programs such as the D-Generation and Fast Forward before working as a newspaper columnist and regular broadcaster for ABC ...