The New England Writers’ Centre is delighted to announce the results of the 2015 New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing. The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is a national award for unpublished short-form crime writing. In its third year in 2015, the Prize attracted a strong field of entries from all over …
Three writers joined Natasha Mitchell (RN Life Matters ) at the Sydney Writers’ Festival to discuss women who kill: Caroline Overington, who won the 2015 Davitt (Non-fiction) for Last Woman Hanged: The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins, Kellinde Wrightson, author of The Notorious Frances Thwaites: The Story of the Brunswick Baby Farmer and Xanthé …
Author: Tara Moss Publisher: Harper Collins Review By: Ann Byrne Book Synopsis: Siren is the fifth of the series, Fetish, Split, Cover and Hit, with PI Makedde (Mak) Vanderwall, the beautiful, streetwise motorbike riding daughter of a cop. Mak begins this adventure with a ride from Canberra to Sydney, “With her slender, leather gloved hand, she gripped the throttle …
Author: Helene Young Publisher: Hachette Copyright Year: 2011 ISBN: 978 0 7336 2490 2 (pbk) Review By: Yvonne Smith Book Synopsis: Helene Young has set her novel in North Queensland. Captain Morgan Pentland is a feisty pilot in the Border Watch fleet covering the “top end” . Tightly held views stemming from memories of her difficult childhood and through a series …
Last Woman Hanged takes out 2015’s Davitt Award The Australian Women’s Weekly’s Associate Editor, Caroline Overington, has taken out the top prize in the non-fiction category at this year’s Davitt Awards. The Australian Women’s Weekly’s associate editor Caroline Overington has won the 15th annual Davitt Award for non-fiction crime writing. Caroline, who is based in …
Pan Macmillan’s Sophie Anderson accepts Davitt (Best Adult Novel) for Liane Moriarty New York Times best-seller, Big Little Lies (Pan Macmillan Australia) by Sydney writer, Liane Moriarty, has won Sisters in Crime’s Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel). Moriarty told the packed audience at Melbourne’s Thornbury Theatre by video on Saturday night (29 August), “P.D James said ‘we …
Sue Turnbull, co-convenor of Sisters in Crime spoke with Dame Stella Rimington about her work at the MI5, her writing and her inspirations at Readings Hawthorn. Listen to the interview here…
I don’t know if you get annoyed too, when you get to the end of a book only to throw it on the growing pile of those whose next journey is to the op shop, regretting the time spent reading more so than the money spent purchasing it. For me this happens when the murderer …
Are you part of the growing phenomenon we call ‘fandom’, a term that refers to a subculture of fans who behave as if the object of their admiration is a real human being. The latest bit of fandom to hit crime lovers is the ‘Phryneverse’, based of course on the gorgeous Phryne Fisher.
Open invitation to the launch of Good Money by J. M. Green Start Date: 5 November 2015 – 6:00pm Join Sister in Crime J. M. Green for the launch of her debut crime novel, Good Money, by Toni Jordan”. Good Money introduces Stella Hardy, a social worker out to solve the murder of a boy …