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When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. With honesty and unsentimental clarity Taylor confronts the swamp of anxiety and despair that traditionally surrounds death and opens the door to the bright clear-eyed vision it ultimately grants us. Learning to face death is, in the end, learning to live fully. Equally moving and hilarious, Taylor's last work has been adapted with great care by writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law, who brings a loving ear to this most intimate tale. Dying: A Memoir invites you on a potent and playful journey to explore the essential things that are put into perspective as we all approach the finishing line.

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Benjamin Law is a writer whose work spans non-fiction, screenplays, journalism, stage plays, documentaries and essays. His debut play Torch the Place was staged by Melbourne Theatre Company and will be restaged by Queensland Theatre in 2026. He is the bestselling author of The Family Law, which was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards and adapted into three seasons of the award-winning SBS TV series of the same name, for which Benjamin was creator, associate producer and screenwriter. He is also the author of Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East, the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101 and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia. As a screenwriter, Benjamin won an Australian Writers' Guild Award Award for his work on the SBS drama New Gold Mountain, and worked as co-executive producer, co-creator and co-writer of the Netflix series Wellmania (2023).

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