Holly Ringland launches new book in Varuna’s Reading Room
Join best-selling author Holly Ringland at Varuna the National Writers’ House, to launch The World Beneath Her Feet, her most personal novel yet. The author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart and The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding has penned a luminous novel about memory, belonging and the loves and landscapes that make us.
With her signature lyrical prose, evocative depictions of the natural world and her ability to layer humour and darkness, The World Beneath Her Feet is an immersive and absorbing novel which blends Ringland’s love of nature, music and art with her deep affection for Australian landscapes.
Holly will be joined by Michaela Kalowski to launch The World Beneath Her Feet in Varuna’s new community building, an intimate space set into the gardens of Australia’s National Writers’ House.
Order a copy of The World Beneath Her Feet at 20% discount from our friends at Megalong Books when you book your ticket.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Holly Ringland is a writer, storyteller and TV presenter whose books have sold over 600,000 copies globally and been published in 30 international territories. Ringland’s 2018 debut novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart won the Australian Book Industry Award General Fiction Book of the Year and was adapted into a smash-hit seven-part TV series starring Sigourney Weaver. In 2021, Holly co-hosted an eight episode ABC TV series, Back to Nature, with Aaron Pedersen. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh/Bundjalung regions of southeast Queensland since 2020, where she wrote her second novel, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding, in her ‘office’, a vintage caravan named Frenchie. Upon publication, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding became an instant national bestseller, and it was named Booktopia’s 2022 Book of the Year. In 2023, Holly published her first non-fiction book, the national bestseller The House That Joy Built, about the essential power of creativity, something she continues to write about in her beloved Substack The Joy Rise.
EVENT DETAILS
Holly Ringland – The World Beneath Her Feet
In conversation with Michaela Kalowski
Date: Tuesday 8 September 2026
Time: 6pm – 7pm
Venue: Varuna the National Writers’ House, Reading Room
141 Cascade St, Katoomba
Ticket price: $15 / $10 concession (including MobTix)