Andrew Quilty in conversation at Roaring Stories

When the Taliban arrived at the gates to the city of Kabul in 2021, Andrew Quilty had been living and working there for eight years. A nine-time Walkley Award-winning journalist, his first book August in Kabul documents with raw, powerful insight and first-hand accounts those earth-shattering and decisive final days, and foregrounds what the humiliating defeat of a decades-long initiative means for both ordinary civilians and global foreign policy.

On Thursday 15 September at the Royal Oak Balmain, join him in conversation with Ahmad Shuja Jamal, a researcher, former Afghan civil servant and Fulbright fellow, who helped to reopen the American University of Afghanistan after the devastating terrorist attack on campus in August 2016.

Book your spot here.