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Wayward Women exhibition to 30 June 2020: Old Treasury Building, Melbourne

Old Treasury Building 20 Spring Street, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

This exhibition presents ten stories about individual women’s lives in the past.  All of the women could be described as ‘wayward’.  Either intentionally, or through force of circumstance, they transgressed society’s rules in some way. Some prospered, but others paid dearly for their actions. The women and girls featured in this exhibition all lived in ...

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Terror Australis Readers & Writers Festival – 31 October- 5 November

Terror Australis Readers & Writers Festival, 31 October- 5 November, is a new Tasmanian literary festival inspired by Agatha Christie. The inaugural theme is Murder She Wrote. The festival takes place in the beautiful Huon Valley, just outside of Hobart. It’s a four-day book spree of deadly Masterclasses, grave Workshops and incisive literary discussions. It ...

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$175 – $530

Sisters in Crime@Lerderderg Library, Bacchus Marsh

Lerderderg Library 215 Main Street, Bacchus Marsh, Vic, Australia

BacchChat: What true crime tells us about the world Join Sisters in Crime Robin Bowles and Vikki Petraitis in conversation with national convenor, Tara Mitchell, about how true crime is about true stories of real people, real grief, real loss, and real horror, not an opportunity to revel in sensationalism or gory murders. True crime ...

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Free

Open invitation: S J Morgan’s, Hide (Adelaide)

Mitcham Library 54 Belair Rd, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Please come and help us celebrate the release of Adelaide Sister in Crime S J Morgan's brand new crime/thriller, Hide (MidnightSun Publishing).  It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff and taken a flat with bikers Minto, Stobes and Black. There he meets Sindy, Minto’s strange and vulnerable ...

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Open Invitation to the launch of Present Tense@Gleebooks, Sydney

Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, NSW, Australia

Present Tense (Clan Destine Press) by Natalie Conyer, a riveting hard-boiled police procedural set in modern South Africa, is being launched by Matt McGuire, Associate Professor at Western Sydney University, Sunday 10 November, 3.30 for 4pm,  Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. Present Tense takes us to Cape Town, to the thrilling, dangerous, new South Africa. Veteran cop ...

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What happens when shame and secrets meet?

Melbourne Athenaeum Library First Floor, 188 Collins St, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Find out when acclaimed Perth crime writer Sara Foster talks to Dr Robyn Walton about her latest mystery,  You Don't Know Me, out November with Simon & Schuster. Sara’s stunning new thriller revolves about the burden of shame and the disastrous consequences of hiding secrets. Sara Foster was born and raised in England, and moved ...

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$15 – $20

Sisters@GenreCon Brisbane

Cultural Centre Stanley Place,, South Brisbane, Qld, Australia

GenreCon 2019 is destined to be the best yet, featuring a smorgasbord of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction. It is a spectacular line up of panels, workshops and special events, where you can join over 200 writers, editors, agents and publishers for three days of celebrating genre. It features a number of ...

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$399 – $699

26th Scarlet Stiletto Awards

The Rising Sun Hotel cnr Raglan Street and Eastern Road, South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Geraldine Hakewill, star of Ms Fisher’s MODern Murder Mysteries and Wanted, will present the awards in collaboration with crime author and performer Jane Clifton after an in-conversation about her – if not their – life in crime. This year, 185 short stories written by Australian women competed for $10,060 in prize money. The first-prize winner ...

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$60

True Crime Sunday with Vikki Petraitis

Elsternwick Park Sports Club 70 Glenhuntly Road,, Elsternwick, Vic, Australia

What better way to an arvo: True Crime Sunday Vikki Petraitis talking about her life of true crime writing True Crime writer Vikki Petraitis will take you down the mean streets in an afternoon presentation of real Australian crime. The best-selling author of 14 books will talk about two of them: The Frankston Murders and ...

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$18 – $22

Open Invitation: Emma Viskic Book launch: Darkness for Light

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

Join in the launch of  the Emma Viskic's third instalment of her critically acclaimed Caleb Zelic series, Darkness for Light by Sisters in Crime National Co-convenor, Tara Mitchell. After a lifetime of bad decisions troubled PI Zelic is finally making good ones. But he can’t escape his past. 6.30pm Tuesday 26 November - Readings St ...

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Free