 The Sydney Writers' Festival based in Walsh Bay, is held each year in May, featuring readings and discussions by Australian and international writers.An array of novels have used Sydney as a setting, notably Ruth Park's "The Harp in the South", which charts the slums of 1930s–40s Sydney, Christina Stead's "Seven Poor Men of Sydney" which addresses a similar theme of life in the poor neighbourhoods, and Elizabeth Harrower's "Down in the City"–set in a King's Cross apartment in the late 1950s.More contemporary examples include Melina Marchetta's "Looking for Alibrandi", J. M. Coetzee's "Diary of a Bad Year", Peter Carey's "30 Days in Sydney", Patrick White's "The Eye of the Storm" and Kate Grenville's "The Secret River".