Watching the Detective: Commissario Guido Brunetti cherishes his food, his glass of wine, his smart and acerbic wife, Paola, and many of the sceptical detectives he works with. He’s an intensely civilised character steering his way through the bureaucracy and corruption of Venice – and solving the occasional crime along the way. With Brunetti, author …
The Book Bird invites you to join local author Dorothy Johnston for a Q&A about her latest book, Through a Camel’s Eye. This event is free with drink and nibble provided, but booking is essential! Friday 6th May 2016 from 6pm The Book Bird Shop 1, Pakington Village 111 Pakington Street Geelong West
What A Way To Go…Unusual Deaths and a History of the Melbourne Morgue Saturday 21 May 2016 at 2pm Join Elizabeth Hore (Vice President) on this tour for Law Week 2016. We will visit the graves of some people who died unusual deaths, such as Frederic Joy Pirani, Edmund Samuel Parkes, James Bennett, and also …
A Special Performance for Soroptimist International Brighton & Southern Districts Directed by Brad Lowry May 18th 2016 Following his wife’s recent death, Gerald hopes to spend the rest of his days alone with his memories. But he reckons without his late wife’s “forward planning”, which results in a series of unexpected events occurring that Gerald …
Enter the Flicks4Chicks international film contest and you can literally change the script and write your own. The contest is part of the Different Faces/Different Voices Film Festival developed by Harvard Square Script Writers in collaboration with Women in Film and Video/New England. The contest invites anyone from anywhere in the world to make a …
Friday 20 May, 6 for 6.30pm To celebrate the 10th Annual Law Week, Sisters in Crime Australia has joined forces with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria University to present a panel of specialists who will debate forensic evidence: what really happens during an investigation, and how the advent of the ‘CSI effect’ has changed …
Can’t wait to hear Aoife Clifford speaking to Sisters in Crime about her debut novel All These Perfect Strangers at the Rising Sun Hotel in South Melbourne, 8pm Friday 29 April? Then catch up with her interview with Anna Frey Taylor on Radio National: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/all-these-perfect-strangers-by-aoife-clifford/7311188
Thursday 5 May, 6pm for 6:30pm start Readings St Kilda, 112 Acland Street The authors of Invisible Women, Kylie Fox and Ruth Wykes talk to author and Sisters in Crime National Co-convenor Lindy Cameron about why the murders of sex workers so often meet with indifference. Ordinarily, when news of murdered women hit the headlines …
Thursday 5 May, 6 for 6.30pm Readings Hawthorn, 701 Glenferrie Road Robin will chat about Australia’s most notorious female criminals Robin Bowles is the author of ten true crime books, starting with the best-selling Blind Justice in 1998 and including the Davitt Award-winning Dead Centre. She has also written two works of crime fiction. Robin …
An enthusiastic crowd turned up at Readings Carlton on 6 April to usher Janice Simpson’s debut novel, Murder in Mt Martha, into the world. Steeped in Melbourne’s past and historically accurate, Murder in Mt Martha is inspired by a real-life unsolved murder. Janice Simpson is a Melbourne based writer with a background in university teaching …