Trent Dalton, the bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Stars and, most recently Love Stories, was thrilled to be in what he called "the second-best city in the world" at the weekend, come to address the question "What does the world need now?"
Dalton was first at City Hall on Friday evening to help open the ninth Newcastle Writers Festival with a panel of bestselling authors and thinkers including Clementine Ford, Hannah Kent, Thomas Mayor, Nardi Simpson and Jessie Stephens.
