Upcoming Events
Mark Smith visits Dymocks in Waurn Ponds to discuss Land of Fences, the magnificent final novel in his Winter trilogy.
This is a free event, but bookings are essential.
Collins Booksellers Warrnambool, in partnership with Brauer College, invite you to celebrate the release of Land of Fences, the final book in the Road to Winter trilogy by award-winning Victorian author, Mark Smith.
This is a free event but bookings are essential.
Join Mark Smith at Frankston Library as he discusses Land of Fences, the magnificent final book in the Road to Winter trilogy.
This is a free event but bookings are essential.
Sarah Hopkins is a Sydney-based novelist and criminal lawyer. Hopkins has spent years appearing for young people in the children’s court. Her unnerving conclusions about the real-life levers into the criminal justice system helped inform the fictional depictions in The Subjects of the over-medicalisation of ‘bad behaviour’ and the over-criminalisation of children and young adults.
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It’s no mystery that Australian crime writers are on some kind of a rampage – some kind of a spree – filling bookshops, racing up bestseller lists and taking over big and small screens across the globe. Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies has been a major TV hit. The series’ executive producer, Reese Witherspoon, is now working on a movie adaptation of Jane Harper's The Dry. Local audiences have been glued to the Jack Irish ABC TV series and to podcasts such as Trace and The Teacher’s Pet, and the last few years have seen a juggernaut of local book sales for established names and newcomers alike.
At the Wheeler Centre's Hit List: Australian Crime Writing event, you’ll hear from some of the stars of Australian crime writing; writers of thrillers, true-crime investigations and classic whodunnits. Each writer will share a short reflection or provocation on the crime genre, followed by a panel discussion. Our speakers will discuss thrilling sub-genres, ethics and aesthetics, the rise of ‘outback noir’ and more. They might even reveal how and where they’re planning to strike next.
The Subjects is the breakout literary novel of established author and Sydney-based criminal lawyer Sarah Hopkins, author of The Crimes of Billy Fish, Speak to Me, and This Picture of You.
At Geelong Library, Sarah discusses The Subjects with Angela Savage and talks about her eerie depiction of the over-criminalisation and overmedicalisation of young people in the juvenile justice system.
Judith Brett’s From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage is a fantastic book that has received critically acclaim from political commentators such as Waleed Aly, Antony Green and Annabel Crabb. Australia is one of the few places in the world where it is compulsory to vote and the only English speaking one. This book explains how this happened as well as how it has affected our politics. Judith is the prize-winning biographer of and a professor of politics at La Trobe.
At Fairfield Book's Opening Pages, she'll join Jenny Ackland, Melbourne teacher and author of Little Gods, which was shortlisted for this year’s Stella. Set in the Mallee, Olive Locklock has just turned twelve. She becomes obsessed with her dead baby sister, convinced that she was murdered. Her quest to discover what has happened will have seismic repercussions for her family and community where the truth might not set you free at all.
Join Paperback Bookshop at 6pm on Wednesday 10th July for an evening of reading and conversation with Alice Bishop.
Alice grew up in Christmas Hills, Victoria. Her writing has been published by Meanjin, Overland, Australian Book Review, Lip Magazine and the Wheeler Centre. Her debut book, a short story collection, is called A Constant Hum.
Tony Birch will launch Alice Bishop’s debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum. These stories grapple with the aftermath of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and herald the arrival of an important new voice in literary fiction.
Free, no booking required.
Alice Bishop discusses her debut short-story collection, A Constant Hum. Bishop’s writing has been published by Meanjin, Overland, Australian Book Review, Lip Magazine and the Wheeler Centre. A Constant Hum addresses the aftermath of the Black Saturday bushfires in a memorable new voice in Australian literature.
