A Night of Crime at Goulburn Mulwaree Library
Published on 25 July 2022
On Saturday 30 July 2022, Goulburn Mulwaree Library is pleased to be hosting four bestselling crime authors, alongside Goulburn local and Daily Telegraph cartoonist Warren Brown for a fantastic evening of discussion, Q&A, nibbles and mingling.
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian author of crime fiction. His first book, Scrublands, was an instant bestseller when it was published in 2018, winning the prestigious UK Crime Writers Association New Blood Dagger for the best debut crime novel in 2019. His follow up books – Silver, Trust, and Treasure & Dirt, are also bestsellers and have all been shortlisted for major literary prizes. His new crime novel The Tilt is expected in October 2022.
Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of 15 published novels. Her body of work includes the bestselling Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a Greek mythology adventure series The Hero Trilogy, and a standalone metafiction thriller Crossing the Lines, as well as several short stories, essays and articles. Crossing the Lines won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction. Her latest novel and an intriguing mystery within a mystery, The Woman in the Library, has just been released worldwide.
Tim Ayliffe is a journalist, the Managing Editor of Television and Video for ABC News, and the former Executive Producer of News Breakfast. He has travelled widely and before joining the ABC he worked in London for British Sky News. A few years ago he turned his hand to writing global crime thrillers featuring former foreign correspondent John Bailey. His works include The Greater Good, State of Fear and The Enemy Within. His latest book has recently been shortlisted for Best Crime Fiction award in the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards.
Rae Cairns is a former youth worker who has turned to a life of crime…writing. Her debut novel The Good Mother was shortlisted for Best Debut Crime Fiction in the 2021 Ned Kelly Awards and draws on her background mentoring disadvantaged youth, many of them children of the paramilitaries, in Northern Ireland during the final years of 'The Troubles'. She is fascinated with how ordinary people manage when faced with extraordinary circumstances, and the lengths everyday characters will go when all they love is put at risk.
Join us for this not-to-be-missed talk and hear a robust discussion about what compels our authors to write crime, where their ideas come from, how much truth can be found in fiction, and why readers are so obsessed with the genre.
This evening event will take place in the Library at 5pm on Saturday 30 July, with plenty of time allowed for nibbles and mingling with our special guests. The Bookshop Bowral will also kindly be joining us to provide book sales for those who would like to have copies signed by the author. Bookings are essential and tickets are available for $10 via www.trybooking.com/BZWOP or by contacting the Library on (02) 4823 4435.