Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Friday 13 September
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
When Double Book Club returns in September, we’ll bring crime to your lunchtime. Well, crime fiction, anyway.
Mark Brandi’s bestselling debut novel, Wimmera, won the coveted British Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger, and was named Best Debut at the 2018 Australian Indie Book Awards. His new novel, The Rip, is a departure. It’s about a young woman sleeping rough, it’s set in inner-Melbourne and it draws on Brandi’s own experience from working in the criminal justice system.
Sarah Bailey is the author of three riveting crime novels, all starring the young detective sergeant Gemma Woodstock. The first, The Dark Lake (2017) won both the Ned Kelly Award and the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for a debut crime novel. The third novel in the series, Where the Dead Go, was released recently after much anticipation, and sees Gemma investigating a murder in a small coastal town.
Meet two talented Australian crime writers for a fascinating hour-long conversation, hosted by crime-fiction buff Christian White. Then flee the scene.
Can’t make it in person? Watch and participate from wherever you are – the event will be live-streamed on this page, and you can sign up for reminders here.
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Hill of Content will be our bookseller for this event.
Featuring
Sarah Bailey
Sarah Bailey is a Melbourne-based writer with a background in advertising and communications. She has three children and is currently the Managing Director of the Sydney and Melbourne offices of global advertising agency ...
Mark Brandi
Mark Brandi's bestselling novel, Wimmera, won the coveted British Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger, and was named Best Debut at the 2018 Australian Indie Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Literary Fiction Book of the Year, and ...
Christian White
Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter whose projects include feature film Relic. The Nowhere Child is his first book and one of Australia’s bestselling debut novels ever. An early draft of this novel won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Since publication The Nowhere Child has been shortlisted for major awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards’ General Fiction Book of the Year and Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, and the Indie Book Awards’ Debut Fiction Book of the Year.
Rights to The Nowhere Child have been sold in 16 territories around the world, and were acquired in a major screen deal by Anonymous Content (US) and Carver Films (Australia). Christian’s keenly awaited second book, The Wife and the Widowwill be published in Australia by Affirm Press in October, 2019. Christian lives in Melbourne with his wife, filmmaker Summer DeRoche, and their adopted greyhound, Issy.