You’re invited to spend a splendid Sunday at Miss Fisher’s Lawn Party. Enjoy a family day out on Old Government House’s picturesque lawn. To the tune of a live band, dance the day away with our swing dancing classes or be pampered to 1920s perfection at Lindy Charm School‘s pop-up salon. Phryne wouldn’t miss it! …
ACWA is pleased to announce that in 2016 Kill Your Darlings will again be publishing the winner of the S.D. Harvey Short Story Award. The S.D. Harvey Short Story Award is an annual competition organised by the Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA). It is part of the prestigious Ned Kelly Awards, celebrating the very best in Australian crime …
You are cordially invited to the book launch of Out of the Ice by Ann Turner. Published by Simon & Schuster Australia To be launched by Annette Blonski 6pm Wednesday 1st June 2016 Readings Carlton 309 Lygon Street Carlton
Text Publishing invites you to celebrate the publication of Dead Men Don’t Order Flake by Sue Williams. To be launched by Angela Savage 6.30pm Tuesday 7 June 2016 Readings Carlton 309 Lygon Street Carlton RSVP Alice Lewinsky by Tuesday 31 May alice.lewinsky@textpublishing.com.au 03 8610 4511
Q&A. Cath Ferla spoke to Robyn Walton, a National Co-convenor of Sisters in Crime Australia, about her debut novel, Ghost Girls (Echo Publishing, 2016). Spoiler alert: Cath speaks openly about her book so if you haven’t read it, maybe wait to read this until you have… Hi Cath. Let’s start with some questions about appearances …
Catch up with a half hour quiz show hosted by Michael Cathcart and scripted by Carmel Shute with music by Boris Connelly. The Sisters in Crime team of Sue Turnbull and Lindy Cameron slug it out with ‘Brothers-in-Law’ Shane Maloney and Andre Kable. Recorded in the backroom of at Leo’s Spaghetti Bar, St Kilda before …
Melanie Casey speaking at Sisters in Crime in Melbourne in 2013 Q&A. South Australian Melanie Casey is the author of the Cass Lehman psychic sleuth series with Hindsight, Craven and now, Missing, all published by Pantera Press. She spoke to Robyn Walton, national co-convenor of Sisters in Crime Australia, about what makes her and her …
Carmel Shute from Sisters in Crime caught up with Emily Maguire who was in conversation with feminist commentator Clementine Ford at Readings Carlton on 14 April. Emily is a well-regarded novellist but An Isolated Incident is her first foray into crime – and let’s hope it’s not her last. It is a crime book with …
Three writers at different stages in their careers – Kathryn Fox, Hannah Kent and Jane Harper – talk to fellow author Jaye Ford about the trajectory of their literary careers and what made the difference to their publishing success. Sydney-based Kathryn Fox is the award winning, internationally acclaimed author of seven novels in the Anya …
Many academics such as Caroline Heilbrun (writing as Amanda Cross) have turned to crime whilst others, from the Dorothy L Sayers’s Gaudy Night onwards, have set their crime novels in academia. Australia’s own June Wright set 1961 Mother Paul mystery, Faculty of Death, at the University of Melbourne. Crime writers Leigh Redhead and P D …