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 ...
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 ...
Proudly supported by Booktopia, Australia’s No. 1 online book seller Gala dinner: Saturday 27 August, 7pm Frock up and come and hear Liane Moriarty, global literary sensation and winner of the 2015 Davitt Award (Best Adult Novel) for Big Little Lies, present Sisters in Crime Australia’s 16th Davitt Awards. Prior to the presentations, she will ...
A quirky writers and music festival celebrating Australian female crime writers. Eight intriguing women of Australia’s crime writing scene will be in the small town of Cobargo in the far south of NSW this October. Over a weekend, through a series of panel discussions, the authors will delve into the craft of writing beguiling plot ...
8pm Friday 7 October: Ann Turner and L. A. (Louisa) Larkin talk to Hazel Edwards about their new thrillers, both set in Antarctica, and why the landscape provides such an appealing, if chilling, scene of the crime. Ann Turner’s second crime novel, Out of the Ice (Simon & Schuster) explores the dark side of human ...
What did happen to Agatha Christie during her mysterious eleven-day disappearance just as she was on the cusp of fame? Mixing fact and fantasy, Kristel Thornell has written an entrancing novel of creativity and grief. She reconstructs Christie's retreat from a life that had become too difficult. Kristel will be in conversation with Sisters in ...
Sisters in Crime Australia and the Port Phillip Library present… Vikki Petraitis interrogates three true crime authors – Robin Bowles, Cheryl Critchley and Helen McGrath – about some famous Australian true crime cases they’ve investigated from Jaidyn Leskie, Jennifer Tanner and Phoebe Handsjuk to Alison Baden-Clay and Jill Meagher. Robin Bowles is known as Australia’s ...
US author Amy Stewart and Melbourne’s Lesley Truffle have both written smart, funny, romping adventures set pre-World War I, with larger-than-life protagonists, and they will tell Robyn Walton why the past has proved such fertile ground for criminal storytelling. Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of eight books, including two crime novels and the bestselling The Drunken Botanist ...
Authors Candice Fox, Tania Chandler and Fiona Capp talk to Jacqui Horwood about their new novels – all with water as the scene of the crime – and much, much more. Photograph: John Heweston In the case of Candice Fox’s latest novel, Crimson Lake (Penguin Random House), the action takes place in the steamy, croc-infested ...