Book Bites with Lesley Truffle@Croydon Library

Croydon Library Civic Square, Croydon, Victoria, Australia

London-born Australian Lesley Truffle has traveled extensively and worked in London and Japan. At present she’s living in a garret in Melbourne. She’s worked as a secondary teacher, photographer, hotel maid, fringe actor and in art galleries, bars, nightclubs and other jobs too ghastly to mention. While exhibiting her art photography in Melbourne galleries Lesley ...

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$12.50

Write that Crime novel – Newcastle Retreat 21-23 July

Newcastle Club

Writing a crime novel? Spend a weekend immersed in crime writing with bestselling Australian authors  (and Sisters in Crime members) Wendy James and Jaye Ford. Both Jaye and Wendy are the authors of six novels and have more than thirty years of fiction writing experience between them – and they are sharing their knowledge of ...

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Sea Change or Tree Change?: crime moves to the coast and country

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

Book tickets Sisters in Crime convenor and author Janice Simpson puts three crime authors under the spotlight – Leigh Straw, Sarah Bailey and Dorothy Johnston – to explore what happens when crime (fiction) shifts to the coast or country: to Fremantle, the fictional NSW country town of Smithson and Queenscliff, respectively. Leigh Straw is a ...

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$10 – $17

Book Launch – Found by Melissa Pouliot

Muse East Hotel 69 Canberra Avenue, Kingston, ACT, Australia

“THE CASE IS COLD. ALL HOPE IS LOST. SUDDENLY, THE FUTURE COLLIDES WITH THE PAST.” Join us as the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre launches the latest novel by bestselling Australian crime writer Melissa Pouliot, Found. Inspired by the real life disappearance of the author’s cousin Ursula Barwick 30 years ago, Foundpicks up the story of teenage runaway ...

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Brisbane Chapter – Sisters in Crime meeting re True Crime

 ‘Nest Bar’, Hotel Jen, Lvl 2, 159 Roma St, Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Sisters in Crime, and all interested crime writers and readers are invited to meet: Sunday, 30 July, 12:30pm-2:30pm   ‘Nest Bar’, Hotel Jen, Lvl 2, 159 Roma St, Brisbane (beside the Roma St Transit Centre) Free – if you don’t have a coffee, wine, snack or lunch NB if you have the Entertainment Book, bring it along for ...

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Free

Open invitation: Book launch: Crossing the Lines by Sulari Gentill

Readings Hawthorn 701 Glenferrie Rd, Hawtthorn, VIC, Australia

All welcome to the launch: Thursday 3 August,  6:00pm at Readings Hawthorn — 701 Glenferrie Rd. 'Brother-in-law" Robert Gott is doing the honours. Sulari Gentill is renowned for her critically acclaimed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries. Her new novel, Crossing the Lines, has been described by crime writer Jeffrey Deaver as a ‘tour de force’. This deeply intimate portrayal of ...

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Free

Beers, burgers, books & blues@Merimbula

Dulcie's Cottage 60 Main Street, Merimbula, NSW, Australia

Launch of the latest novel by bestselling Australian crime writer Melissa Pouliot, Found, plus much much more.   Inspired by the real life disappearance of the author’s cousin Ursula Barwick 30 years ago, Found picks up the story of teenage runaway Annabelle Brown, who we first meet in Pouliot’s international #1 bestseller Write About Me. In 1988, Annabelle vanishes in the rugged ...

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$50

BOOKED OUT!!!‘Body in the Library’ short story readings

Athenaeum Library Level 1, 188 Collins Street,, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

Sisters in Crime@The Melbourne Athenaeum Library Friday 4 August, 5.30pm for 6pm: ‘Body in the Library’ short story readings Come and hear compere (and 2011 Scarlet Stiletto Award winner) Angela Savage as she introduces a selection of winning ‘Body in the Library’ stories from Sisters in Crime’s annual Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Since 2012, the Melbourne ...

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$10 – $15

Shame (1988) screens at Melbourne International Film Festival

Forum Theatre cnr Flinders & Russell Sts, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Shame, a wonderful feminist film produced in 1988 by 'brother-in-law' Michael Brindley, has a special screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival  - 4pm Sunday 13 August at the Forum Theatre. It will be followed by a  Q&A afterwards with actors Deborra-lee Furness and Simone Buchanan,  and director Steve Jodrell.  One woman – played by an award-winning Deborra-lee ...

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Noir at the Bar

Grub Street Bookshop 1/379 Brunswick St, Fitzroy, ViC, Australia

All are invited to  the 2nd Noir at the Bar Melbourne, Grub Street Bookshop,  379 Brunswick St, Fitzroy. Five cool Noir fiction readings from Des Murray, Jessica Currie,  Annie Hauxwell, Iain Ryan and Laura Elizabeth Woollett. Cheap drinks and books for sale. See you there.

Free