Crime and the big short… list
Catch up with The Fairfax Media report on the short lists for the 2016 Davitt Awards and the Ned Kelly Awards. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/bookmarks-news-and-views-from-the-book-world-20160809-gqofe2.html
16th annual GALA Davitt Awards Dinner
Tickets are selling fast to our premier frock-up event on Saturday 27 August, 7 pm. Liane Moriarty – global literary sensation and winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Adult novel – is our special guest presenter. She will be interrogated about her six international bestsellers by Vikki Petraitis. The Davitt Awards, proudly supported by Booktopia, Australia’s No. 1 …
Fact to Fiction
PAM BURTON: I am a lawyer and a writer, primarily, of non-fiction. My first major work was an unauthorised biography of Australia’s first female High Court Justice, Mary Gaudron, From Moree to Mabo: the Mary Gaudron story. Next, drawing on my experience in medico-legal and mental health work, I wrote The Waterlow Killings: a portrait …
The mean streets of power – Parliament House inspiring crime writers
The corridors of power have inspired some of Australia’s best crime writers. Ministerial murder, back room dirty deals, bodies in the lake and public servants disappearing are just some of the crimes solved by a diverse range of detectives, journalists and unlucky suspects. Fine exponents of the genre will discuss how parliament and Parliament House …
Crime with a ‘Mid-West’ Gothic edge: Q&A with Tiffany McDaniel
Q&A. Robyn Walton, national co-convenor of Sisters in Crime Australia, quizzed US author Tiffany McDaniel about her new novel, The Summer that Melted Everything (Scribe, Melbourne, 2016). Hi Tiffany. Congratulations on the publication of your extraordinary novel. As our website readers are fans of crime fiction, I’m going to direct our email conversation towards the …
Open invitation – Event launch – Carmel Bird’s Family Skeleton
Join Sisters in Crime convenor, Lindy Cameron, as she interrogates Carmel Bird about her latest novel, Family Skeleton (University of WA Press) Family Skeleton begins with Toorak matriarch, Margaret, widow of Edmund Rice O’Day of O’Day Funerals, secretly surveying her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the O’Day family secrets …
Killing off the cliché: Female Protagonists in Crime Panel
Open invitation to a Sisters in Crime Queensland and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition event Join some of Queensland’s most exciting home-grown crime authors as they delve into the world of crime writing and how they challenge the stereotypes of the female protagonist. Killing off the cliché is a discussion panel hosted by Penny …
Open Invitation: Launch of 5 Ways to be Famous Now by Maurilia Meehan
You are all invited to the launch of 5 Ways to be Famous – Now, “a wickedly funny novel about fame and revenge.” Launcher: Gabrielle Carey, author of Moving Among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family 5 Ways to be Famous Now: A glamorous ocean liner, inspired by the original ghostly Queen Mary, sets sail …
Jane Harper and Sue Williams talk crime at Victoria University
Jane Harper and Sue Williams will be talking about crime writing, selling first novels, the fascination of secrets in small Australian towns, and whether crime can be too funny or too serious, among other things. Jane Harper won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015 and, The Dry, her first novel, …
Join Candice Fox in Canberra discussing crime and collaboration with L.J.M. Owen
Join two Sisters in Crime – internationally renowned Candice Fox and fellow crime author L.J.M. Owen – at Muse literary salon in Canberra on 21 August 3-4 pm. Award-winning Candice has teamed up James Patterson, one of the world’s bestselling authors, to co-write a thriller set in the Australian outback. Never Never is set in …