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Hang On St. Christopher (The Sean Duffy Series) by Adrian McKinty Amazon.com New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty continues the Edgar Award-winning Sean Duffy series with Hang on St. Christopher. Rain slicked streets, riots, murder, chaos. It's July 1992 and the Troubles in Northern Ireland are still grinding on after twenty-five apocalyptic years. Detective Inspector Sean Duffy got his family safely over the water to Scotland, to "Shortbread Land". Duffy's a part-timer now, only returning to Belfast six days a month to get his pension. It's an easy gig, if he can keep his head down. But then a murder case falls into his lap while his protege is on holiday in Spain. A carjacking gone wrong and the death of a solitary, middle-aged painter. But something's not right, and as Duffy probes he discovers the painter was an IRA assassin. So, the question becomes: Who hit the hitman and why? This is Duffy's most violent and dangerous case yet and the whole future of the burgeoning "peace process" may depend upon it. Based on true events, Duffy must unentangle parallel operations by the CIA, MI5 and Special Branch. Duffy attempts to bring a killer to justice while trying to keep himself and his team alive as everything unravels around them. They might not all make it out of this one. About the author Adrian McKinty was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied philosophy at Oxford University before moving to Australia and then New York City. In 2019 Adrian had a global hit with his standalone novel The Chain. Adrian's novels have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times), The Anthony Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.

Jock Serong talks about the writing craft and process behind his novel Cherrywood.Jock tells us how this novel started with several image fragments and a variety of influences, from Peter Carey's Oscar & Lucinda and Susanna Clarke's Piranesi, to Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree, and the Narnia Chronicles, with a little Dickens and Austen thrown in.Jock's explanation of how a handful of ideas became a story is one of the best I've heard. He also tells us his thoughts on writing place as character, how to describe minor characters so they stand out, how the structure of the novel changed, breaking the ‘show don't tell' rule, and why the editing process should be considered cooperative rather than corrective. ABOUT JOCK SERONGJock Serong is the author of Quota, winner of the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction; The Rules of Backyard Cricket, shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, finalist of the 2017 MWA Edgar Awards for Best Paperback Original, and finalist of the 2017 Indie Book Awards Adult Mystery Book of the Year; and On the Java Ridge, which won the Colin Roderick Award and, internationally, the inaugural Staunch Prize (UK), and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Awards. He has won praise for his trilogy of historical novels Preservation; The Burning Island, which earned him the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Historia Award for Historical Crime Fiction (France); and The Settlement, which was shortlisted for the Voss Prize and the ARA Historical Novel Prize.Website: www.jockserong.comBuy Cherrywood by Jock Serong here.Buy Dirrayawadha by Anita Heiss here.BUILD AN AUTHOR WEBSITE COURSETo receive notifications about course dates, the free author website workshop and early bird discounts, sign up here. This podcast is recorded on the beautiful, unceded lands of the Garigal people of the Eora nation.Full show notes available at writersbookclubpodcast.com

NOTE: There are some spoilers in this episode.BM Carroll talks about the writing craft and process behind her novel One of Us is Missing. Writing topics include pacing, managing multiple points of view, techniques and tips for writing crime fiction, structure, voice and description. I'm delighted to bring you another highly experienced novelist, the talented Ber Carroll or BM Carroll as you might know her. Ber has just published her 12th novel One of Us is Missing and it is a masterclass in domestic suspense. I couldn't put it down.Because she pivoted from commercial fiction to domestic suspense with her last five novels, she had to learn the rules of crime writing so she talks about what those techniques are. With this novel she had to completely change the structure to make the pacing work, so she talks about that in detail too which is fascinating. Ber also talks about when she introduces a spreadsheet to her process (because old accountant habits die hard) and we also talked about the importance for her of beta readers which is something I haven't asked anyone before on the podcast so it was really great to get into that - I think you'll find it really useful.You'll find links to buy both paperback and ebook versions of One of Us is Missing by BM Carroll here.ABOUT BM CarrollBer is the author of twelve novels. Her most recent novels The Missing Pieces of Sophie McCarthy, Who We Were, You Had It Coming, The Other Side of Her and One of Us is Missing are published under B.M. Carroll. You Had It Coming was shortlisted for the 2022 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction and the 2022 Davitt Award for Best Adult Novel.Website: https://bercarroll.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bmcarrollauthor/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bercarrollbmcarroll Buy One of Us is Missing by BM Carroll here.Buy Smoke by Michael Brissenden here.BUILD AN AUTHOR WEBSITE COURSETo receive notifications about course dates, the free author website workshop and early bird discounts, sign up here - https://www.freshwebdesign.com.au/course This podcast is recorded on the beautiful, unceded lands of the Garigal people of the Eora nation.Full show notes available at writersbookclubpodcast.com

Bestselling author Dervla McTiernan discusses her suspenseful new novel about two families at war with host J.P. Pomare at Geelong Library. Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. Dervla McTiernan is the critically acclaimed author of five novels, including The Murder Rule, which was a New York Times thriller of the year. Dervla has won multiple prizes, including a Ned Kelly Award, Davitt Awards, a Barry Award, and an International Thriller Writers Award. She is also the author of four novellas, and her audio novella, The Sisters, was a four-week number one bestseller in the United States. This event was presented in partnership with Geelong Regional Libraries. It was supported by Sorrento Writers Festival. The official bookseller was Torquay Books.It was recorded on Wednesday 24 April 2024 at Geelong Library and Heritage Centre.Featured music is ‘Different Days' by Chill Cole.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Writers series was honored to host Nita Prose at the City Opera House on December 6th, 2023. Nita Prose is the author of The Maid, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and was published in over 40 countries. A #1 New York Times bestseller and a Good Morning America Book Club pick, The Maid won the Ned Kelly Award for International Crime Fiction and was an Edgar Awards finalist for Best Novel. The Mystery Guest is a new mess. A new mystery. And it's up to Molly the Maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nationalwritersseries/message

Dervla McTiernan is an international best-selling critically acclaimed author of 4 novels (think of The Ruin, The Scholar and The Murder Rule) as well as several audio novellas. Since becoming published in 2018, Dervla's books have regularly graced Amazon bestseller lists. She has won a Ned Kelly Award, a Davitt Award and a Barry Award and has been shortlisted for numerous others.  Her work has been described as rivalling that of John Grisham. A couple of years ago now I was fortunate to chat with Dervla for the podcast when her book 'The Murder Rule' was released. Recently, I got to do it again in honour of the release of Dervla's breath-taking new novel ‘What Happened to Nina?'. A wonderful interview with one of Australia's best storytellers.

A podcast miniseries devoted to celebrating the 1988 contemporary classic, action buddy comedy MIDNIGHT RUN, written by George Gallo & directed by Martin Brest. Hosted by Blake Howard & Jen Johans of One Heat Minute Productions & Watch With Jen, respectively, each week, we'll explore the film we first bonded over when we became friends in 2019 by surfing through an incredible roster of guests from journalists to novelists & beyond who love it as much as we do.In episode seven, we discuss complete unfamiliarity with the brilliance of Grodin's talk show persona on Carson, the alchemy of De Niro and Grodin, some of the great Yaphet Kotto Alien stories and so much more.ADRIAN MCKINTYAdrian was born and grew up in a working-class housing project in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the worst decades of the Troubles. He attended Oxford University on a full scholarship to study philosophy. He fell in love with a girl there and followed her to New York City where he worked as an illegal in bars and building sites and as a Teamster driver for three years before marrying the girl and becoming a US citizen. He taught high school in Denver and Boulder before moving to Melbourne Australia where he decided to write full time.His Sean Duffy series has currently sold in excess of 250,000 copies since its debut in 2012.In the last 12 months Adrian's books have been shortlisted for the Edgar Award, Dagger Award, Anthony Award, Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Ned Kelly Award and the Prix SNCF.WEBSITE: officialadrianmckinty.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

GARRY DISHER chats to Craig Sisterson about his new novel Day's End, 'Hirsch', right wing extremism, stories ripped from the news, rural noir,  backpackers & blue biro. DAY'S END: WHEN HATE RUNS DEEP, THE INNOCENT SUFFERConstable Paul Hirschausen's rural beat in the low hills of South Australia is wide. Daybreak to day's end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets small towns and isolated properties, from unlicensed driving to arson.But now, just as Hirsch has begun to feel he knows the fragile communities under his care, the isolation and fear of the pandemic have warped them into something angry and unrecognisable. Hirsch is seeing stresses heightened and social divisions cracking wide open. His own tolerance under strain; people getting close to the edge.Today he's driving an international visitor around: Janne Van Sant, whose backpacker son went missing while the borders were closed. They're checking out his last photo site, his last employer. A feeling that the stories don't quite add up.Then a call comes in: a roadside fire. Nothing much - a suitcase soaked in diesel and set alight - but two noteworthy facts emerge. Janne knows more than Hirsch about forensic evidence. And the body in the suitcase is not her son's.Garry Disher is a genre-defining writer of Australian crime fiction, hailed as 'the gold standard for rural noir' by Chris Hammer, and as 'one of Australia's finest writers' by The Times. He has published fifty titles across multiple genres, and is known as Australia's King of Crime. He has won the German Crime Prize three times and the Ned Kelly Award twice. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.Recommendations & mentions: Alice Munro, William Trevor, Ron Rush, Shirley Jackson. Peter Corris, Chris Hammer, Jane Harper,  Tony Hillerman. Mick Herron, Michael Connelly & Ian Rankin.Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.Music courtesy of  Guy Hale KILLING ME SOFTLY - MIKE ZITO featuring Kid Anderson.GUY HALE Produced by Junkyard DogCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023CWA Daggers 2023& Newcastle Noir 20232024??

This week, I was so pleased to welcome back to the pod one of my crime writer friends' favorite crime writers & a man whose taste in film, literature, & poetry is an endless source of delight on Twitter. Adrian McKinty was born & raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, & then studied philosophy at Oxford University before he moved to Australia & New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including his Dagger & Edgar nominated debut DEAD I WELL MAY BE, the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series, as well as the smash international bestseller & award-winning standalone thriller THE CHAIN.A man whose books have been translated into over thirty languages, Adrian has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award. Adrian's most recent novels include the smash bestseller THE ISLAND & the latest Sean Duffy mystery THE DETECTIVE UP LATE.After having such a delightful first conversation with Adrian about EXCALIBUR & LORD OF THE RINGS earlier in the year (& then chatting with him once again for the upcoming MIDNIGHT RUN-THROUGH pod series with Blake Howard's One Heat Minute Productions), I couldn't wait to bring him back to discuss movies with me once again. Emailing me while working on his next book, Adrian came up with an ingenious idea to look at the ways that the Coen Brothers address creative blocks in the films BARTON FINK & INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS.Witty yet highly analytical, in this episode, we check into the hotel from hell to explore the life of the mind in the 1991 film first & then take a folksy walk through early '60s Greenwich Village in search of a cat in one of the Coens' final works as a filmmaking team. The perfect companion to your holiday travels this week in the United States, it's a must for fans of the filmmakers & especially those who adore FINK, which is dissected in great detail in this entertaining conversation.Originally Posted on Patreon (11/18/23) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/93115677Theme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music ArchiveShop Watch With Jen logo Merchandise in Logo Designer Kate Gabrielle's Threadless Shop

Northern Ireland author ADRIAN MCKINTY chats to Craig Sisterson about the return of Sean Duffy in his new novel THE DETECTIVE UP LATE, the mystery of sales v awards,  pitching to the Beeb, giving it another go.THE DETECTIVE UP LATE: Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the 1990s are going to be better for him and the people of Northern Ireland. As a Catholic cop in the mainly Protestant RUC he still has a target on his back, and with a steady girlfriend and a child the stakes couldn't be higher. After handling a mercurial triple agent and surviving the riots and bombings and assassination attempts, all Duffy wants to do now is live. But in his final days in charge of Carrickfergus CID, a missing persons report captures his attention. A fifteen-year-old traveler girl has disappeared and no one seems to give a damn about it. Duffy begins to dig and uncovers a disturbing underground of men who seem to know her very well. The deeper he digs the more sinister it all gets. Is finding out the truth worth it if DI Duffy is going to get himself and his colleagues killed? Can he survive one last case before getting himself and his family out over the water?ADRIAN MCKINTY: was born and grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University before moving to New York in the mid 1990s. His first novel Dead I Well May Be (loosely based on his experiences as an illegal immigrant in the US) was published in 2003. In 2012 after moving to Australia with his wife and children he began publication of the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series. In 2019 after giving up writing Adrian had a global hit with his standalone novel The Chain. Adrian's books have won the Edgar Award, the Ned Kelly Award (3 times), The Anthony Award, Barry Award, Macavity Award and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. His books have been translated into over 40 languages.RecommendationsSA Cosby Razorblade Tears, All the Sinners Bleed, Blacktop Wasteland.Craig Sisterson is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir. He lives in London with his daughter. He is the author of  SOUTHERN CROSS CRIME: The Pocket Essentials Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film & TV of Australia & New Zealand.Produced by Junkyard DogMusic courtesy of Southgate and LeighCrime TimeCrime Time FM is the official podcast ofGwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2023CrimeFest 2023&CWA Daggers 2023

This episode the Featured Book is brought to you by Text Publishing, and we are delighted to be talking to Loraine Peck about her novel, THE DOUBLE BIND. From magician's assistant to crime novelist, it's all about mastering the art of subterfuge for Loraine Peck, whose love of crime fiction propelled her to write the kind of book she loves to read.The Second Son, Loraine's debut, won the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction from the Australian Crime Writers Association.It was shortlisted for two Davitt Awards by Sisters in Crime and for a Danger Award by BAD Crime Sydney. Her second novel, The Double Bind was released in April 2023. We also catch up with Kate, who is part way through The Hummingbird Effect book tour and talk events, launches, writing people and of course, pizza gate.  The hosts mention:  Yellowface by R.F Kuang Imbi Neeme's 'Best Launch Ever' sign The Barbie movie  Check out show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). You can support us and the making of Season Six via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

Dave Warner is an iconic Australian musician, songwriter, and author. He gained popularity in the late 1970s with his band, Dave Warner from the Suburbs, and became known for his unique blend of punk and pub rock. Hailing from Perth in Western Australia, Dave formed Australia's first punk band PUS back in the early 1970s. By the time The Sex Pistols had formed, Dave had already moved on to a new phase of music and social commentary which he dubbed Suburban Rock. His band Dave Warner's From The Suburbs was a major Australian pub band playing with the likes of Men At Work, Midnight Oil, INXS, Dragon and Skyhooks. His albums were highly original and successful, tapping into the psyche of the ordinary Aussie boy and girl. Dave formed The Suburbs in 1977. The group developed a huge underground following, which led to Dave signing with Australia's Mushroom Records in 1978. His first album, Mugs Game, went gold within a month of release. Dave's second album, Free Kicks, was released in 1979. Several albums later, Dave Warner retired from writing and performing music full-time, turning instead to writing plays, novels and screenplays. Once nominated by Bob Dylan as his favourite Australian artist, Dave Warner continues to inspire. He is the author of twelve novels, including the winner of the 1996 West Australian Premier's Award for Fiction CITY OF LIGHT, and the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 'BEFORE IT BREAKS', and six other non-fiction titles. Dave has written for feature film, stage, television, radio and newspapers. His first feature movie starred Kylie Minogue and Molly Ringwald was sold worldwide.   Dave's television credits include the INXS telemovie plus regular episodes of mainstream Australian primetime dramas.   This week on A Breath of Fresh Air, Dave Warner discusses his music career and the challenges of being pigeonholed into a specific genre. He shares his desire to create truly original music and his inspiration taken from figures like rocker, Lou Reed and American author, Thomas Pynchon.   If you'd like to learn more about Dave Warner check out his website: https://davewarner.com.au/ You can also head to my website for more information about Dave. Don't forget if you'd like to request a future guest for A Breath of Fresh Air, just drop me a line through my website https://abreathoffreshair.com.au/ I hope you enjoy this episode.

Rae Cairns is a Sydney-based author who shot to notoriety when her debut, self-published novel, ‘The Good Mother' was shortlisted in 2021 for the Ned Kelly Award in the Best Debut Crime Fiction category.  Following this auspicious event, Rae was offered a two-book deal with HarperCollins publishers and 'The Good Mother' was revised and reissued allowing even more readers to discover Rae's storytelling prowess with this gripping thriller.  This month, Rae is celebrating the release of her second novel ‘Dying to Know'. And I have to say, listeners, much like ‘The Good Mother', this book was thrilling and heart-stopping in equal measures.  From it's opening pages, Rae sinks her storytelling hooks into us and doesn't ease up until the very end.  With its intriguing premise, expertly researched details and propulsive action - I picked this book up on a Sunday afternoon and simply couldn't put it down again until I was done.  For several hours everything took a backseat to this incredible story of love, loyalty corruption, betrayal and a sister's search for the truth.  I absolutely loved this book and couldn't wait to chat with Rae on the podcast again.

As soon as this episode was announced & I began researching it, there was a massive amount of interest from listeners to hear what turned out to be an absolutely hilarious yet still very insightful conversation with author Adrian McKinty. So in that spirit, & because I've recorded a pretty healthy backlog of episodes for the new season so far, I thought I'd upload it early for all of you as a bonus surprise release.This week, I was so pleased to welcome to the podcast one of my crime writer friends' favorite crime writers & a man whose taste in film, literature, & poetry is an endless source of delight on Twitter. Adrian McKinty was born & raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then studied philosophy at Oxford University before he moved to Australia & New York. He is the author of more than a dozen crime novels, including his Dagger & Edgar nominated debut DEAD I WELL MAY BE, the critically acclaimed Sean Duffy series, as well as the smash international bestseller & award-winning standalone thriller THE CHAIN. A man whose books have been translated into over thirty languages, Adrian has won the Edgar Award, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Ned Kelly Award (three times), the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Macavity Award, the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award. His latest bestseller THE ISLAND is set to be a Hulu original series & will be hitting paperback soon as well, & he shares more book news in this episode.In this very lively 87-minute discussion, I join Adrian to embark on a quest & return with elixir, while learning more about a genre about which I am far from an expert! Dissecting two popular fantasy films that he's passionate about as both a writer & cinephile - John Boorman's divisive yet beloved 1981 Arthurian epic EXCALIBUR & Peter Jackson's smash blockbuster adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS - fans of storytelling, film, & McKinty's work are sure to adore this amusing installment. A nice break from traditional deep dives into the careers of filmmakers & actors, I hope this conversation makes you laugh as hard as I did throughout the recording.Originally Posted on Patreon (3/8/23) here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/79754710Logo: KateGabrielle.comTheme Music: Solo Acoustic Guitar by Jason Shaw, Free Music Archive

The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Simon Rowell is the author of The Echo of Others and The Long Game. He's been nominated for a Ned Kelly Award and is joining us today with his new novel Wild Card. When a body is found on the banks of the Murray River, Detective Zoe Mayer is called up from Melbourne to investigate. Despite the violence of the scene and the victim's ties to organised crime no one seems to know anything. As more bodies pile up, Zoe realizes she will have to make a breakthrough soon before a gang war erupts within the communities skirting the NSW/Victoria border. Join us and discover Simon Rowell's Wild Card Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author. His first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and his second novel, Either Side of Midnight, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Original Paperback. Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some are just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started. Award-winning book blogger and reviewer, Kristopher Zgorski, of BOLO Books, joins Pam for this interview on Authors on the Air. #authorsontheair #authorinterview #authors #benjaminstevenson #kristopherzgorski #bolobooks

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author. His first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and his second novel, Either Side of Midnight, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Original Paperback. Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery. Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some are just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started. Award-winning book blogger and reviewer, Kristopher Zgorski, of BOLO Books, joins Pam for this interview on Authors on the Air. #authorsontheair #authorinterview #authors #benjaminstevenson #kristopherzgorski #bolobooks

Amongst all my summer reading good intentions I knew that I wanted to find something pacey and fun in a good old fashioned edge of your seat kinda way. Pip Drysdale has a way with pacey thriller's. She's the author of The Sunday Girl, The Paris Affair and The Strangers We Know. She's been shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award and most importantly she's got a new novel out called The Next Girl.  So let me read you the byline on the cover of my copy of The Next Girl; “The only way to protect his next victim is to be his next victim…” How could you not want to read this book with that intro?! It promises a morally upright hero who's going for a proper takedown of some sticky predator. A badass girl boss of a protagonist whose moral introspection never hides the fact that she's a stone cold predator slayer, and I was absolutely here for it. Hero Billie is working her way towards becoming a lawyer. Only hitch is it looks like her actions may have blown her latest case, letting abusive douche Dr Samuel Grange go free. Drinking away her sorrows should have helped but instead Billie has woken up in a strange apartment with less than the desirable amount of memory from the night before. Putting that seemingly trivial mystery to the side Billie has to figure out how to pay her rent now that her job's on the line. Oh, and she also has to figure out how to serve some serious extrajudicial justice onto Samuel Grange before some other woman becomes his next victim. Cue… Billie is going to be The Next Girl (That's the name of the book!) I'm having fun with this review because I had fun reading The Next Girl. Billie's earnest first person, confessional style narration keeps you going with her heartfelt backstory, overindulgence in naming dropping band names and ridiculously low key revelation of Billie's vigilantism. Billie has her own utility belt of gadgets and tricks for taking down the bad guys, which are either annoyingly convenient or frighteningly widespread (and we all need to fear for our data and safety - not necessarily in that order). Pip Drysdale's storytelling is designed to hook you in and it does just that. Billie sets us up with all the right plot points so she can knock them down later in the novel. The story gets pretty convoluted whilst still keeping its lightness as Billie flirts with a danger, that as our protagonist we know she likely won't fall victim to. With a lot going on the reader gets the satisfaction of watching multiple douchebags get their just desserts. And even at its most convoluted The Next Girl doesn't go full Keyser Soze on the reader, giving us a fair chance at both keeping up and even guessing the twist. With plenty of summer still left to enjoy, The Next Girl is a solid read for lazy weekends spent at the beach. Toxic men beware because The Next Girl continues Pip Drysdale's run of protagonists who are done with your shit. The Next Girl is available from Simon & Schuster Loved this review? You can get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great Conversations podcast. Hear interviews with authors and discover your next favourite read! Book Club is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

Today's guest is story-teller, and in this conversation we travel across countries, stories, and experiences that will captivate you. Pip Drysdale is a bestselling author, musician and actor. She grew up in Africa, Canada, and Australia, became an adult in New York and London, and lives on a steady diet of coffee, dreams, and literature. Her debut novel, The Sunday Girl, was a bestseller and has been published in the United States, Australia, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The Strangers We Know was a bestseller, shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Award, and is being developed for television, and The Paris Affair was also a bestseller. Her fourth book, The Next Girl, is out in Australia and NZ in December 2022 and Canada in Spring 2023. Pip shares a bit about her compulsion to write each day (as long as there's coffee), how she navigates her time and energy and what she's learnt about life from some key experiences - one in particular she shares of being in a car accident when she was 17. Stories connect us all, telling them with strength and vulnerability as someone who continues to explore life the ever engaging, Pip Drysdale. Key People: Host & Producer: @alihill Guest: @pipdrysdale Connect with Pip: https://pipdrysdale.com/

Dervla McTiernan is a wildly successful crime writer. Her debut novel, The Ruin, was a critically acclaimed international bestseller which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction and the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback. The second and third installments in the series, The Scholar andThe Good Turn, garnered similar praise. In 2022 she released her first stand alone crime novel, The Murder Rule. Born in County Cork, Ireland, Dervla practised as a corporate lawyer for twelve years. After the GFC she moved with her family to Western Australia, where she now writes full time. Dervla first appeared on The Garret in 2020, and you can listen to that interview here. About The Garret Read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Instagram, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the podcast today we speak to two exceptional Australian crime writers. Emma Viskic is author of the internationally acclaimed Caleb Zelic series. Her novels have won numerous prizes, including a Ned Kelly Award and an unprecedented five Davitt Awards.  We hear about Those Who Perish which concludes the Caleb Zelic series.Then we chat to debut novelist Matthew Spencer whose novel Black River takes us to a  long, burning summer in Sydney where a young woman was found murdered in the deserted grounds of an elite boarding school.   A serial killer preying on victims along the banks of the Parramatta River. And of course we find out what our staff have been reading with some great book reviews:Someone Else's Child by Kylie OrrThe Hating Game by Sally ThorneThe Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernanThe Wild Place by Christian WhiteThis Tender Land by William Kent KruegerListen and enjoy! 

Wendy James is the author of nine novels, including best-selling title "The Mistake" and "The Golden Child" which was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly award in 2017. Her debut, "Out of the Silence" won the 2006 Ned Kelly Award for best crime debut and was also shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie award for women's fiction. Her latest novel, "A Little Bird" (Lake Union Publishing) was released in the US in November last year. A gripping and atmospheric Australian small-town thriller about a journalist who returns to the town she fled years earlier only to come face to face with her grief over the mysterious disappearance of her mother and sister. Highly recommended reading for lovers of crime fiction. I had the pleasure of chatting with Wendy about this book on the podcast a little while back.

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Dr Sue Turnbull. "The Way it is Now" Bad Sydney Chair, Professor, Reviewer and Judge, Dr Sue Turnbull, talks to award winning Crime Writer, Garry Disher. Garry is the celebrated winner of the 2021 Ned Kelly Award and has a new book with a new detective, Charlie Deravin.  GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events:  booktopia.kh4ffx.net/RyOZ3R We would like to thank the City of Sydney,Create NSW and the State Library of NSW for their ongoing support of the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival and the Bad All About Crime Podcast.  SHOW NOTES:  BAD Sydney Crime Writer's Festival Website: https://www.badsydney.com Facebook: @BADCrimeSydney  BAD: ALL ABOUT CRIME BOOK CLUB https://www.facebook.com/groups/1421791224828182/ Instagram: @badcrimesydney Twitter: @BADCrimeSydney Youtube: @Bad Sydney  Garry Disher Website: https://garrydisher.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the podcast, Danielle interviews international #1 bestseller Dervla McTiernan. Dervla's first two novels, The Rúin and The Scholar, were critically acclaimed around the world. She has won multiple prizes, including a Ned Kelly Award, Davitt Awards, a Barry Award and an International Thriller Writers Award, and has been shortlisted for numerous others. Dervla's third book, The Good Turn, went straight to #1 in the bestseller charts, confirming her place as one of Australia's best and most popular crime writers. Her latest book, The Murder Rule, is out May 10th. Find her at www.dervlamctiernan.com #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #dervlamctiernan #thegoodturn #theruin #thescholar #themurderrule

Today on the podcast, Danielle interviews international #1 bestseller Dervla McTiernan. Dervla's first two novels, The Rúin and The Scholar, were critically acclaimed around the world. She has won multiple prizes, including a Ned Kelly Award, Davitt Awards, a Barry Award and an International Thriller Writers Award, and has been shortlisted for numerous others. Dervla's third book, The Good Turn, went straight to #1 in the bestseller charts, confirming her place as one of Australia's best and most popular crime writers. Her latest book, The Murder Rule, is out May 10th. Find her at www.dervlamctiernan.com #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #dervlamctiernan #thegoodturn #theruin #thescholar #themurderrule

Today on the podcast, Danielle interviews international #1 bestseller Dervla McTiernan. Dervla's first two novels, The Rúin and The Scholar, were critically acclaimed around the world. She has won multiple prizes, including a Ned Kelly Award, Davitt Awards, a Barry Award and an International Thriller Writers Award, and has been shortlisted for numerous others. Dervla's third book, The Good Turn, went straight to #1 in the bestseller charts, confirming her place as one of Australia's best and most popular crime writers. Her latest book, The Murder Rule, is out May 10th. Find her at www.dervlamctiernan.com #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #dervlamctiernan #thegoodturn #theruin #thescholar #themurderrule

Start your day the right way, with a stimulating discussion of the latest news headlines and hot button topics from The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Today, hear from Jane Caro, Gideon Haigh and Tim Williams. Jane Caro is an author, columnist, broadcaster, advertising writer, documentary maker and social commentator who appears frequently on Q&A, The Drum, Sunrise and Weekend Sunrise. She has published ten books, including a memoir, Plain-Speaking Jane, and her most recent book and first novel for adults, The Good Mother. Gideon Haigh has contributed to more than one hundred newspapers and magazines, and published more than forty books. He has won Premier's Literary Awards in three states, two Waverley Library Prizes and a Ned Kelly Award for True Crime. Tim Williams is the deputy head of news for The Advertiser, following a lengthy spell as education reporter.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author; Katherine Kovacic! Katherine was a veterinarian but preferred training and having fun with dogs to taking their temperatures.  Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other people's dogs to ride skateboards. @sistersincrimeau Readers Choice.  Congratulations to Katherine Kovacic for winning this award for The Shifting Landscape. The Canberra Times said: Katherine Kovacic puts an Australian spin on a classic crime thriller trope. If you haven't read Katherine Kovacic before, and you like art mixed with crime, you're in for a treat. @echo_publishing 'The Schoolgirl Strangler', as she recounts the chilling true crime story consisting of a failed police enquiries, a serial killer with a Jekyll and Hyde personality, and four families left shattered from tragic losses. A research geek, Katherine is currently fired up by the history of human relationships with animals, particularly as they appear in art. Her first book, The Portrait of Molly Dean, was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award for best first fiction. Her latest novel; "Just Murdered; Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Book #1!"  

Perry and David discuss recent award winners, the nominees for the Short Story category of this year's Hugos, and the books they've been reading. Letters of Comment (04:06) Awards (07:38) Ned Kelly Award winners (03:38) Davitt Awards (01:04) Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (02:55) Hugo Awards - Short Story Nominees (26:32) A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (02:41) The Mermaid Astronaut by Yoon Ha Lee (03:09) Badass Moms of the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson (02:31) Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer (03:11) Metal Like Blood in the Dark by T. Kingfisher (04:47) Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell (02:30) Our Rankings (05:56) What we've been reading (24:52) Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (04:20) A Stairway to Paradise by Madeleine St. John (04:48) The End of the World is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell (04:22) Say No to Death by Dymphna Cusack (11:15) New website (01:06) Windup (01:31) Illustration by Arthur Rackham, courtesy of Old Book Illustrations. Note: some links above are to Amazon.com. We receive a small affiliate commission for any purchases you make on Amazon via such links.

Perry and David discuss recent award winners, the nominees for the Short Story category of this year's Hugos, and the books they've been reading. Letters of Comment (04:06) Awards (07:38) Ned Kelly Award winners (03:38) Davitt Awards (01:04) Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (02:55) Hugo Awards - Short Story Nominees (26:32) A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (02:41) The Mermaid Astronaut by Yoon Ha Lee (03:09) Badass Moms of the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson (02:31) Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer (03:11) Metal Like Blood in the Dark by T. Kingfisher (04:47) Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell (02:30) Our Rankings (05:56) What we've been reading (24:52) Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (04:20) A Stairway to Paradise by Madeleine St. John (04:48) The End of the World is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell (04:22) Say No to Death by Dymphna Cusack (11:15) New website (01:06) Windup (01:31) Click here for more info and indexes. Illustration by Arthur Rackham, courtesy of Old Book Illustrations. Note: some links above are to Amazon.com. We receive a small affiliate commission for any purchases you make on Amazon via such links.

There is a long tradition in times of adversity that we read mysteries to divert ourselves from the challenges of our daily lives. Back in the interwar period of the 1920's & 30's Agatha Christie became a legend. Taking readers into little towns and intercontinental trains to solve a variety of cunning murders.It's a more complicated world, so maybe we need a darker, more nuanced voice. JP Pomare has a way of delivering, and right now when we can't go anywhere, he's crafted a thriller that will make you terrified of staying in any type of house share.That's right, this week's book club is J.P. Pomare's new thriller The Last GuestsJP Pomare is the author of Call Me Evie, Tell Me Lies and In the Clearing. He has won the Ngaio Marsh award and is shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award this year so you don't have to trust me that he's good; he's got the trophies to back it up.As The Last Guests begins, a nondescript man enters a holiday accommodation in Auckland with bags full of electrical equipment. Hours later he leaves with empty suitcases. Another Peephole stream has gone live.On the other side of Auckland Cain and Lina are doing it tough. Cain hasn't had much work since he was injured in combat and he wants Lina to put her family home up on WeStay - an online accommodation app. Lina's not too sure though. All her childhood memories are in that home and who knows what terrors a guest could inflict on that nostalgia?Like I said, right when we can't travel anyway, The Last Guests delivers a narrative that shows us the potential nightmare fuel our stays could become.Building on the growing world of surveillance we already live with, The Last Guests shows us a hidden world of voyeurs who tap into cameras to watch your most intimate moments.Our protagonist Lina has a secret and when she is caught in the web of Peephole, she is confronted with how easy it would be for her whole world to come crumbling down.The Last Guests mixes thriller, paranoia and just the right amount of mystery. We know what Lina has to hide but we don't know enough about who is threatening her.The novel crafts building tension that erupts into an horrific climax… and that's just the halfway point. We are then treated with a classic as Lina tries to repair the pieces of her life and make sense of what has happened to her.I was genuinely terrified and perplexed as I rocketed through The Last Guests. It's a cliché to say it kept me guessing to the last turn, but there's a reason why we return to clichés.What more can I say about a writer whose work hinges on the unknown? It sucks that we're stuck between the same four walls for the foreseeable future but J.P. Pomare's work promises to make you feel like you've run a mile on every page. Oh and trust me… it will also make you very thankful for the comfort and safety of your own home.Loved this review?You can hear the full audio for this and many more conversations from Final Draft. Just search for Final Draft 2ser on social media and wherever you get your podcasts. Get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great Conversations podcast. Hear interviews with authors and discover your next favourite read!https://2ser.com/final-draft

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Katherine Kovacic about her novelization of Ms. Fisher Modern Murder Mysteries; Just Murdered! Katherine was a veterinarian but preferred training and having fun with dogs to taking their temperatures.  Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other people's dogs to ride skateboards. A research geek, Katherine is currently fired up by the history of human relationships with animals, particularly as they appear in art. Her first book, The Portrait of Molly Dean, was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award for best first fiction. Her latest novel; "Just Murdered; Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Book #1!"   Peregrine Fisher is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting of the Adventuresses' Club of the Antipodes, where she learns some incredible news. When Adventuress Florence Astor is accused of murder, Peregrine jumps at the chance to help on the case. Detective James Steed, initially dismissive, quickly finds Peregrine's flair for investigating and headstrong nature leave him little choice. Based on the screenplay by Deb Cox. 'A splendid read, with an authentic 60s flavour. I recommend it unreservedly.' - Kerry Greenwood

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Katherine Kovacic about her novelization of Ms. Fisher Modern Murder Mysteries; Just Murdered! Katherine was a veterinarian but preferred training and having fun with dogs to taking their temperatures.  Katherine spends her spare time writing, dancing and teaching other people's dogs to ride skateboards. A research geek, Katherine is currently fired up by the history of human relationships with animals, particularly as they appear in art. Her first book, The Portrait of Molly Dean, was shortlisted for a Ned Kelly Award for best first fiction. Her latest novel; "Just Murdered; Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries Book #1!"   Peregrine Fisher is unexpectedly summoned to a meeting of the Adventuresses' Club of the Antipodes, where she learns some incredible news. When Adventuress Florence Astor is accused of murder, Peregrine jumps at the chance to help on the case. Detective James Steed, initially dismissive, quickly finds Peregrine's flair for investigating and headstrong nature leave him little choice. Based on the screenplay by Deb Cox. 'A splendid read, with an authentic 60s flavour. I recommend it unreservedly.' - Kerry Greenwood

In this episode host Andy Muir is joined by Text CEO and Publisher, Michael Heyward, to discuss the work of the late Peter Temple and his book The Red Hand. Following the interview, Suzanne Leal, Dr Sue Turnbull and Catherine du Peloux Menage explore Temple's back catalogue with Andy, unpacking Jack Irish, Truth and The Broken Shore to reflect on why he is one of Australia's most important crime writers. All the books discussed can be purchased from podcast partner Booktopia. This podcast is supported by The City of Sydney https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently released books featured on the podcast or at BAD Sydney events:  https://www.booktopia.com.au/bad-sydney/promo2474.html SHOW NOTES:  BAD Sydney Crime Writer's Festival Website: https://www.badsydney.com Facebook: @BADCrimeSydney  BAD: ALL ABOUT CRIME BOOK CLUB https://www.facebook.com/groups/1421791224828182/ Instagram: @badcrimesydney Twitter: @BADCrimeSydney Youtube: @Bad Sydney  Suzanne Leal Website: https://www.suzanneleal.com Facebook: @suzanne.author Twitter: @suzanne_leal Instagram: @Suzanne Leal Author Andy Muir Website: C/O https://affirmpress.com.au/publishing/andy-muir/ Facebook: @andy.muir.357 Instagram: @muir8052 Michael Heyward - Text Publishing Website: https://www.textpublishing.com.au Facebook: @textpublishing Twitter: @text_publishing Good Reads: @Text Publishing YouTube: @TEXTPUB BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE INCLUDE:  Peter Temple:  The Red Hand Jack Irish Novels The Broken Shore  Bad Debts In the Evil Day White Dog Shane Maloney - Stiff Kenneth Cook - Wake In Fright  Jane Harper - The Dry See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I first met Candice at a writer's festival in 2019 and was struck by how generous she was with her experiences as a writer which, of course, is exactly the kind of writer I want to bring to your ears on this podcast. Candice is knowledgeable on the craft of writing, yes, but she also has the best stories. We chatted more about the craft behind her writing but after this, go and have a listen to some of the stories of her very unusual childhood and her experiences, as a writer, interviewing serial killers. If you go to the About page on her website candicefox.org and scroll to the bottom, you'll find a link to her conversation with Richard Fidler which is absolutely fascinating.In this interview, Candice took me behind the scenes of The Chase. We talked about her drafting and editing processes, how she pitched the idea to her publisher, how she structured the novel with an A and B plot and multiple vignettes, the techniques she uses to make the reader care about the characters, how she goes about creating and maintaining tension, and so much moreThis is another hour-long interview. I think we just need to accept that this podcast has hour-long episodes and I'm okay with that. Hope you are too. That's the beauty of podcasts isn't it - you can break it up if you like or just binge the whole thing on a really long walk.Remember there can be spoilers in this podcast, although we don't reveal any of the big ones in this episode, but if you hate knowing anything about a book before you've read it, you can buy a copy of The Chase in all the usual places.ABOUT CANDICE FOXCandice Fox's first novel, Hades, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back to back. Her subsequent novels – Fall, Crimson Lake, Redemption Point and Gone by Midnight – were all shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. In 2015 Candice began collaborating with James Patterson. Their first novel together, Never Never, set in the Australian outback, was a huge bestseller in Australia and went straight to number one on the New York Times bestseller list in the US, and also to the top of the charts in the UK. Their later novels – Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar, Hush Hush and The Inn – have all been massive bestsellers across the world. Not bad for a chick from Bankstown, where Candice was born and bred. To top it all off, Candice has two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees.In other words she's the perfect person to teach us one or two things about writing.Website - https://www.candicefox.org/Follow Candice on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.Shownotes are available at https://www.writersbookclubpodcast.com

Candice Fox first novel is Hades, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back-to-back. Also, in the 2015 Davitt Awards, Hades was Highly Commended in the debut category. Ahead the release of her book 'The Chase', Sarah chatted with Candice about writing a big cast of characters, making Fugitive jokes during labour, her experiences of prison and more. WARNING: occasional coarse language Producers Note: during this podcast, there is mention of a particular police case as inspiration. The name of the case has been bleeped to avoid spoilers. Books mentioned in this podcast: Candice Fox - 'The Chase': https://bit.ly/3lEfF7I Host: Sarah McDuling Guest: Candice Fox Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Iain Ryan discussing his latest noir thriller The SpiralToday on the show...Erma Bridges is tired. She just got off a red eye to answer as yet unknown charges of misconduct from her university. A university where Erma is writing a book on the History of Reader Deployed Young Adult Fiction (Choose Your Own Adventure books ‘natch’). A university where young women are disappearing at an alarming rate. A university where one young woman, Erma’s missing research assistant, is about to reappear and brutally attack Erma for seemingly no discernible reason.Join me as we discover Iain Ryan’s The Spiral.

Iain Ryan is an Australian writer who lives in Melbourne. He is the author of two previous novels, Four Days (2015) and The Student (2017), both shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award. Henry talks with Iain about his life, career and new book The Spiral. This conversation was originally broadcast on 3SER's 97.7FM Casey Radio in February 2021. It was produced by Rob Kelly.

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Garry Disher discussing his new rural noir Consolation.Paul Hirschhausen is the only cop in the poorly heated police station in Tiverton. He was run out of Adelaide when he turned whistle-blower on corruption. But the town has come to know him, he’s setting down roots. But then there’s always an edge when police are around.Now Hirsch has got a father & son on the run, armed and dangerous. The local music festival looks like it’s going belly up and someone is sneaking around stealing women’s underwear in the night.Join me as we discover Garry Disher’s Consolation...

On this Democracy Sausage Extra, award-winning journalist and author Malcolm Knox joins Mark Kenny to discuss the saga of Israel Folau - former star rugby union player sacked for sharing anti-LGBTQ views on social media - and how free speech got so complicated.The sacking of former star player Israel Folau by Rugby Australia for his comments on social media once again revealed faultlines which had recently been laid bare during Australia’s marriage equality plebiscite. So what did the saga reveal about freedom of expression in Australia? What is the significance of groups like the Australian Christian Lobby in Australia’s public discourse? And, with ‘free speech’ very much a political battleground, what might the future hold? On this Democracy Sausage Extra, Professor Mark Kenny speaks with Australian journalist and author Malcolm Knox about the Israel Folau issue, Australia’s evangelical movement, and the ‘culture wars’. This episode was recorded live as part of the ANU/Canberra Times ‘Meet the Author’ series.Malcolm Knox is the former literary editor and an award-winning journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald. Malcolm is the winner of three Walkley Awards. His novels include A Private Man, winner of the Ned Kelly Award, The Life, The Wonder Lover, and Bluebird. His most recent book is Truth Is Trouble: The Strange Case of Israel Folau, Or How Free Speech Became So Complicated.Mark Kenny is a Professor in the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He came to the university after a high-profile journalistic career including six years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We’d love to hear your feedback for this podcast series! Send in your questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes to podcast@policyforum.net. You can also Tweet us @APPSPolicyForum or join us on the Facebook group.This podcast is produced in partnership with The Australian National University. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand up comedian and author whose first novel, Greenlight was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award in 2019.He is one-half of a hugely popular comedy show called “The Stevenson Experience” which has had sold out appearances at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, various comedy festivals around Australia and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.His second novel, “Either Side of Midnight” was released by Penguin Random House Australia on the 1st of September and wow does he know how to pack a punch with his writing.This novel was completely gripping, utterly thought-provoking and terrifying it is exploration of the power of influence in today's society. Intricately plotted with lots of twists and turns . . .it kept me guessing until its breathtaking conclusion.Had so much fun chatting with Benjamin about his novel.

Nicholas J. Johnson (aka Tricky Nick) loves doing the impossible. Nicholas grew up in the circus, he really did become a professional magician by the time he was ten. (We told you it was a true story.) Today, Nicholas has gone on to become one of Australia's leading entertainers. Known as 'The Honest Con Man' Nicholas exposes the tricks behind the tricks; the crafty reasons why we're scammed, tricked and bamboozled. He's revealed the secrets of deception on The Project, A Current Affair, Sunrise and TODAY as well as at countless schools, libraries and organisations. He is the host of the monthly magic show Sleight Night, as well as a regular performer at Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe. Nicholas is the author of two books for adults, Chasing the Ace (which was nominated for a Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction) and Fast and Loose. Tricky Nick is his first book for children.

Malcolm Knox grew up in Sydney and studied in Sydney and Scotland. Malcolm is the former literary editor and award-winning cricket writer of the Sydney Morning Herald, where he broke the Norma Khouri story, for which he won one of his two Walkley Awards. His novels include A Private Man, winner of the Ned Kelly Award; Jamaica, which won the Colin Roderick Award; The Life; and most recently The Wonder Lover. Ahead of the release of 'Bluebird', Ben sat down with Malcolm to discuss his new book, the hit-and-miss nature of humour, country existence in Australia, how pressure finds us in unexpected places, and more. Books mentioned in this podcast: 'Bluebird' by Malcolm Knox: https://bit.ly/3hxiip3 Host: Ben Hunter Guest: Malcolm Knox Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Benjamin Stevenson is an award-winning stand-up comedian and author. His first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and published in the USA and UK. He has sold out shows from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival all the way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and has appeared on ABCTV, Channel 10, and The Comedy Channel. He currently works with some of Australia's best-loved authors at Curtis Brown Australia. Ahead of the release of Either Side of Midnight, Ben and Sarah sat down with Benjamin to discuss his book, the raw nature of tackling tough themes in novels, and more. WARNING - this podcast covers strong themes of mental health and suicide. If you need to talk to someone, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14. Books mentioned in this podcast: 'Either Side of Midnight' by Benjamin Stevenson: https://bit.ly/3gKmq3w Host: Ben Hunter & Sarah McDuling Guest: Benjamin Stevenson Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Michael Robotham is one of Australia's greatest crime writing exports, having written over a dozen best-selling novels. His second novel 'Lost' won the Ned Kelly Award for the Crime Book of the Year in 2005, given by the Australian Crime Writers Association. 'The Night Ferry' and 'Shatter' were both shortlisted for UK Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger in 2007 and 2008, with 'Shatter' going on to win the Ned Kelly award for Australia's best crime novel. Ahead of the release of 'When She Was Good', Ben sat down with Michael to discuss his new book, what keeps him coming back to the writing desk, his fascination with damaged characters and more. Books mentioned in this podcast: 'When She Was Good' by Michael Robotham: https://bit.ly/34ljtSs Hosts: Ben Hunter Guest: Michael Robotham Producer: Nick Wasiliev

Duncan McNab is an award-winning and bestselling investigative journalist, television producer/documentary maker and author of 11 books sold in Australia, UK and North America including the best selling Dead Man Running (Allen & Unwin 2007; Atlantic Books UK 2010), Roger Rogerson (Hachette 2016), and the 2017 Ned Kelly Award winner Getting Away With Murder (Random House 2017. He was the supervising producer of and appeared in the 7 Network’s blockbuster true-crime series Murder Uncovered (winner of the 2017 Kennedy Award and Clarion Award for best long-form documentary), 9 Network’s Murder Lies and Alibis and as a consultant to numerous productions. He also works as a media adviser specializing in crisis/issues management and In a former life, Duncan was a detective in the NSW Police a private investigator in the corporate world and major criminal defence.

Dr Wendy James is the author of eight books including The Lost Girls and Out of the Silence, which won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime fiction and was shortlisted for the Nita May Dobbie Award for women's writing.  The Lost Girls which is set in Newcastle has been chosen to be adapted into a Hollywood film. Wendy has lived in Cooks Hill for ten years with her husband and two of their four children. Wendy is an avid reader and regular visitor to Newcastle Libraries.  Wendy writes some of the best and most contemporary domestic noir novels in Australia. Hosted by Michael Blaxland.  This is a Newcastle Libraries REAL production.

Dervla McTiernan's novel, The Rúin (2018), was a critically acclaimed international bestseller. In Australia, The Rúin won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, the Davitt Award for Best Adult Fiction. In America, it won the Barry Award for Best Original Paperback, and was on the Amazon US Best Book of the Year list. Dervla continued the crime trilogy with The Scholar (2019) and The Good Turn (2020, both of which are also best sellers around the world. The screen rights have been snapped up by Hopscotch Features. About The Garret  Read the transcript of this interview at thegarretpodcast.com. You can also follow The Garret on Twitter and Facebook, or follow our host Astrid Edwards on Twitter or Instagram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sulari Gentill Launches "After She Wrote Him" “This mystery won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award under the title Crossing the Lines.Now available in the United States, it’s a twisted masterpiece about writing and the loss of identity while writing. The disturbing examination of obsession and loss will appeal to readers of literary novels and introspective books about the writing process.”Library Journal If you get lost in a book, be sure you can find your way back... Madeleine d'Leon doesn't know where Edward came from. He is simply a character in her next book. But as she writes, he becomes all she can think about. His charm, his dark hair, his pen scratching out his latest literary novel... Edward McGinnity can't get Madeleine out of his mind - softly smiling, infectiously enthusiastic, and perfectly damaged. She will be the ideal heroine for his next book. But who is the author and who is the creation? And as the lines start to blur, who is affected when a killer finally takes flesh? After She Wrote Him is a wildly inventive twist on the murder mystery that takes readers on a journey filled with passion, obsession, and the emptiness left behind when the real world starts to fall away. Published in Australia as "Crossing the Lines" SHOW NOTES: Writes4Womenwww.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter / Instagram @w4wpodcast W4W Patreonhttps://www.writes4women.com/support-us-on-patreon Sulari Gentillhttp://sularigentill.com: SULARI https://www.panterapress.com.au/product/crossing-the-lines-book-by-sulari-gentill/PANTERA PRESS:Facebook @SulariGentillTwitter @SulariGentillInstagram @sularigentill Pamela Cookwww.pamelacook.com.auFacebook @pamelacookauthorTwitter @PamelaCookAUInstagram @pamelacookwrites Listen Up Podcasting (Kel Butler)www.listenuppodcasting.com.auFacebook @kelbutler / @listenuppodcastingTwitter @KelB

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Sulari Gentill! A reformed lawyer, Sulari Gentill is the award-winning author of the Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Hero Trilogy, and a number of standalone novels.  She lives on a small farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, where she grows French Black Truffles and writes about murder and mayhem. Sulari has won and been shortlisted in many awards including: the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Australian Book Industry Award, the Davitt Award, the Ned Kelly Award, and the Scarlett Stiletto Award.  She was the inaugural Eminent Writer in Residence at the Australian Museum of Democracy.  Most recently she won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel and was awarded a 2019 Create Grant by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. 

Candice Fox is an Australian crime author. Hades, her debut, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back-to-back. Since then she has teamed up with the likes of James Patterson, and released her third book, Fall, to critical acclaim. Ahead of the release of her new book, 'Gathering Dark', Ben and Sarah sat down with Candice to discuss 'Gathering Dark', how to tell a good crime story, researching crime, motherhood and more. Books mentioned in this podcast: 'Gathering Dark' by Candice Fox--> https://bit.ly/2UmzcNS Hosts: Ben Hunter & Sarah McDuling Guest: Candice Fox

Candice Fox joins us on the "Anatomy of a Novel" craft series, to break down the secrets to writing a good crime and thriller novel, drawing from her best selling book "Crimson Lake". Candice Fox is one of Australia's most highly acclaimed crime writers and she has managed to achieve that title in just 6 years! Candice released her first book, "Hades," in 2014 and it went on to win the Ned Kelly Award as did it's sequel, "Eden." Pretty much every book she has written since has been met with accolades, nominations and best seller lists. Candice's career is littered with nothing but success for her undeniable talent in writing the darker side of Crime. Candice officially launches her latest novel "Gathering Dark" on 30th March. SHOWNOTES: Writes4Womenwww.writes4women.comFacebook @writes4womenTwitter / Instagram @w4wpodcast W4W Patreonhttps://www.writes4women.com/support-us-on-patreon Candice Foxhttps://www.candicefox.orgFacebook @candicefoxauthorTwitter @candicefoxbooks https://www.penguin.com.au/books/gathering-dark-9780143789178GATHERING DARK: Pamela Cookwww.pamelacook.com.auFacebook @pamelacookauthorTwitter @PamelaCookAU Listen Up Podcasting (Kel Butler)www.listenuppodcasting.com.auFacebook @kelbutler / @listenuppodcastingTwitter @KelB

Dervla McTiernan is an Irish crime novelist. Now based in Perth, Western Australia, her first book in the Cormac Reilly series, 2018's 'The Ruin' won the 2019 Davitt Award, The Barry Award and the 2019 Ned Kelly Award. The book was also short listed for the The Guardian's Not the Booker prize. She followed this up with the second book in the series, 2019's 'The Scholar', which received similar acclaim and became a bestseller worldwide. Ahead of the launch of her new book in the Cormac Reilly series, 'The Good Turn', Ben and Sarah sat down with Dervla to discuss 'The Good Turn', characterisation, police behaviour, staying connecting with her homeland, and her growing profile. Books mentioned in this podcast: 'The Good Turn' by Dervla McTiernan --> http://bit.ly/2RXnUx7 Hosts: Ben Hunter & Sarah McDuling Guest: Dervla McTiernan

Emma Viskic is the author of the critically acclaimed Caleb Relic series. Her novel Resurrection Bay won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, as well as an unprecedented three Davitt Awards: Best Adult Novel, Best Debut, and Readers' Choice. Ben and Sarah were thrilled to sit down with Emma to chat about Darkness for Light, the third and latest book in the series. They also talk about how she got into writing, her inspiration for Resurrection Bay, writing outside your own experience, sign language and the research required for it, the future and more. Books mentioned in this podcast: Darkness for Light by Emma Viskic —> http://bit.ly/2KTlahG Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic —> http://bit.ly/2pQ2dVH Hosts: Ben Hunter and Sarah McDuling Guest: Emma Viskic

Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.Today's episode features Garry Disher discussing his new novel Peace.Paul Hirschhausen is the cop in Tiverton; a small town in farming country south of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. He’s only been there a year, but in the lead up to Christmas he wants what all cops want over the silly season, a little peace. Of course there’s some petty crime like a ute driving through the front door of the pub, but otherwise, so far, so peaceful. Then on his rounds one morning Hirsch encounters a distressed horse and follows it home to find a horrific scene.As the investigation begins a mysterious call comes through from Sydney and Hirsch has to do a routine welfare check on a family outside of town. A family no one seems to know existed…

Four years after the events of Into the Night, DS Gemma Woodstock is on the trail of a missing girl in a small coastal town. 'Every bit as addictive and suspenseful as The Dark Lake ... Sarah Bailey's writing is both keenly insightful and wholly engrossing, weaving intriguing and multi-layered plots combined with complicated and compelling characters.' The Booktopian A fifteen-year-old girl has gone missing after a party in the middle of the night. The following morning her boyfriend is found brutally murdered in his home. Was the girl responsible for the murder, or is she also a victim of the killer? But who would want two teenagers dead? The aftermath of a personal tragedy finds police detective Gemma Woodstock in the coastal town of Fairhaven with her son Ben in tow. She has begged to be part of a murder investigation so she can bury herself in work rather than taking the time to grieve and figure out how to handle the next stage of her life - she now has serious family responsibilities she can no longer avoid. But Gemma also has ghosts she must lay to rest. Gemma searches for answers, while navigating her son's grief and trying to overcome the hostility of her new colleagues. As the mystery deepens and old tensions and secrets come to light, Gemma is increasingly haunted by a similar missing persons case she worked on not long before. A case that ended in tragedy and made her question her instincts as a cop. Can she trust herself again? A riveting thriller by the author of the international bestseller The Dark Lake, winner of both the Ned Kelly Award and the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for a debut crime novel.

We discuss chapters 7-12 of The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. Our favourite detective buddy-cop finally took a turn towards some action as Lije Bailey and Daneel Olivaw are left to outrun cultists on the strips of New York City, 3000 years in our future. Can the pair stay safe and solve the crime as it seems the very city itself is against them? We also sat down with Australian crime writer Sarah Bailey, winner of the 2018 Ned Kelly Award for best First Crime Novel with her book The Dark Lake.

Hades, Candice Fox’s first novel, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association. The sequel, Eden, won the Ned Kelly Award for best crime novel in 2015, making Candice only the second author to win these accolades back-to-back. She is also the author of the bestselling Fall, Crimson Lake and Redemption Point, all shortlisted for Ned Kelly and Davitt Awards. In 2015 Candice began collaborating with James Patterson. Their first novel together, Never Never, set in the vast Australian outback, was a huge bestseller in Australia and went straight to number 1 on the New York Times bestseller list in the US and also to the top of the charts in the UK. Since then they have written Black & Blue, Fifty Fifty, Liar Liar, Hush Hush in the Harriet Blue series. Her books are printed in fifteen languages. Born in 1985, Candice is the middle child of a large, eccentric family from Sydney’s western suburbs composed of half-, adopted and pseudo siblings. The daughter of an enthusiastic foster-carer, Candice spent her childhood listening around corners to tales of violence, madness and evil from the cops and childcare authorities who frequented her home. Bankstown born and bred, she failed to conform to military life in a brief stint as an officer in the Royal Australian Navy at age eighteen. At twenty, she turned her hand to academia, and taught high school through two undergraduate and two postgraduate degrees. She is a crafter, animal-lover and wine drinker living in Sydney.

Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing, and a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing.

Chloe Hooper's The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island (2008) won the Victorian, New South Wales, West Australian and Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, as well as the John Button Prize for Political Writing, and a Ned Kelly Award for crime writing. Her new book is called The Arsonist, which delves into the minds of those who become arsonists and why. Focusing on the horrific event known as Black Saturday, Chloe has written a powerful and real-life thriller. Books mentioned in this podcast: The Arsonist by Chloe Hooper —> https://bit.ly/2CsaXpE The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper —> https://bit.ly/2zTd973 Hosts: John Purcell and Robert O'Hearn Guest: Chloe Hooper

Gideon Haigh is an author and freelance journalist. Since he began as a cadet journalist at The Age in 1984, fresh out of high school, Gideon's main subject areas in journalism have been in sport and business. For most of his career, Gideon has worked as a freelancer, and his writing has been published in more than one hundred newspapers and magazines around the world. As an author, he has written 32 books to date, with at least two more underway. The breadth and depth of his body of work is simply astounding, and I've been an admirer of his for some time. During the last few years, my main understanding and appreciation of Gideon's writing is through his role as senior cricket writer at The Australian, where he has become one of the most read and trusted voices in sports journalism. In late July, I met with Gideon at his home in Melbourne's inner-city, and was led into his writing room, which is also home to his extraordinary collection of thousands of books. Our conversation touches on why he prefers not to think too much about the structure of his books before he starts writing them; how he goes about writing daily cricket match reports for The Australian each summer; how he has managed to avoid becoming cynical about cricket, despite writing about it for decades; how he decides which writing projects to pursue as a freelancer with several sources of income; and how he found himself occupying a sort of public service role in late 2014 as the nation came to terms with the shock death of a young Australian cricketer. The conversation begins, however, with a small discussion about the purpose of this podcast. Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades. He has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books, and edited seven others. He has been writing about sport and business for more than 22 years. His best-known books are Mystery Spinner, The Big Ship, The Summer Game, Game for Anything: Writings On Cricket and A Fair Field and No Favour: The Ashes 2005. His 2012 book The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; and Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime. His latest book is Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket. Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club – nor, perhaps, wanted to. Show notes and links to what was discussed in this episode: http://penmanshippodcast.com/episode-40-gideon-haigh/ Penmanship on Twitter: @PenmanshipAU penmanshippodcast.com

comes to town and it was a great chance to interview a range of talented authors taking part in the festivities. My interviews are with: Ben Rawlence - his book City of Thorns is about Northern Kenya - the home of the world’s largest refugee camp, with half a million people. Opening Night speaker at the Perth International Arts Festival. Candice Fox - her first novel, Hades, won the Ned Kelly Award for best debut in 2014 from the Australian Crime Writers Association; she has since gone onto numerous books on crime and punishment. Hannah Kent - is the best-selling author of Burial Rites and the newly released The Good People - stories of culture, crime and history. Garth Nix -  is an award-winning sci-fi fantasy author with several series of fantasy and fiction; I asked him about his new book "Frogkisser" ahead of his appearances at the festival. Amy Stewart - an author of nonfiction books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including New York Times bestsellers with The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Bugs and Wicked Plants. However, her range has extended to the tales of a trio of turn-of-the-century sisters turned detectives, with the latest being Lady Cop Makes Trouble - the second book in an ongoing series. Chinelo Okparanta - this Nigerian-American author  writes stories of women and children, family life, migration, war and love; she first started with short stories, with the collection Happiness, Like Water and then her most recent novel Under the Udula Trees. Inua Ellams - London-based playwright and poet Inua Ellams' work explores the themes of identity, displacement and destiny – areas of life he’s intimately familiar with. Dan Box - the National Crime Reporter for The Australian and creator of crime podcast Bowraville. Marwa Al-Sabouni - Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni is battling to heal her home city of Homs, having remained there as bombs destroyed much of what she knew and loved. Her ideas to mend the city are now laid out in a visionary memoir, The Battle For Home. She is presenting the closing night address. Clementine Ford - Australian feminist columnist and author of the best selling book Fight Like A Girl. Lindy West - is a Seattle-based writer, editor and performer who’s work has appeared in a number of well-known publications - and the author of Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman. Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa - a Perth performance poet, she’s a workshop facilitator, actor, artist and humanitarian. Her questions about notions of Australian national identity, got her to the finals of the national Australia poetry slam. Nathan Hill - short story author and author of The Nix; a tale of estrangement and displacement in both families and national politics. Adrian Todd Zuniga - creator of Literary Death Match -  touted as Def Poetry Jam meets American Idol, this competition sees four authors perform a short excerpt of their most electric work before a panel of judges. Omar Musa -  a Malaysian-Australian rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He is the winner of the Australian Poetry Slam and the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam and has released three hip-hop albums, two poetry books, and received a standing ovation at TEDx. ************ A quick note about supporting the podcasts! Check out  – and consider  Thanks to RTRFM for their support, especially producer Peter Barr. Theme songs “Cosgrove” by Pogo, from and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of  Additional ambient music from Jukedeck – create your own at .  – they include: Steven, Andrew, Dr T, Paul, Gerry, Josh, Kathy, Linley, Gold, Iggy, Lukas, Finch and Andrew. Thanks to everyone who contributes and please consider joining to help continue these shows at  Please leave positive comments and reviews on iTunes and consider supporting the show via visiting  – and I’d love to get your feedback via tokenskeptic@gmail.com. 

Zane Lovitt is a documentary filmmaker turned crime writer. His debut novel, The Midnight Promise, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, and led to Zane being named one of the Best Young Novelists of 2013 by the Sydney Morning Herald. He released Black Teeth in 2016. The Murder and Mayhem podcast is brought to you by the course "How to Write About Murder". www MurderCourse.com

Marele Day is an Australian author known for mystery novels like The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender and The Lambs of God. She has won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novel and the Ned Kelly Award for her non-fiction book, How to Write Crime. She has also written The Sea Bed, about a Buddhist monk who leaves his monastery to carry out a fellow monk’s dying wish. Other books include Mrs Cook: The Real and Imagined Life of the Captain’s Wife and Shirley’s Song. The Murder and Mayhem podcast is brought to you by the course "How to Write About Murder". www MurderCourse.com

This Walkley Media Talk celebrated the diversity of story-telling and the many new platforms indigenous journalists and storytellers now have space on to tell their stories. The discussion examined the rise of indigenous media into the mainstream and new innovations in storytelling and the implications for coverage of indigenous affairs in Australia. It also examined the challenges and importance of meaningful collaboration and the experience of non-indigenous journalists in covering Aboriginal issues. This panel was moderated by Karla Grant (@karlagrant28), of SBS Living Black. Malarndirri McCarthy (@malarndirri) is a senior journalist/presenter for SBS/NITV News. The former ABC newsreader began her cadetship in 1989 and worked as a journalist until 2005. That year, the Yanyuwa woman from Borroloola in the Northern Territory became the Member for Arnhem in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. After the 2008 election, Malarndirri was promoted to the Ministry, where she served as Minister for Children and Families, Indigenous & Regional Development, Tourism , Statehood, Women's Policy, Senior Territorians, Young Territorians and the Minister Assisting the Chief Minister on Multicultural Affairs until August 2012. She returned to the newsroom in December 2012. Malarndirri won the inaugural Deadly Award for Journalism. Martin Butler studied politics and economics at Oxford University and then went to work for the manager of ‘The Who’. In 1981, he migrated to Australia and spent the next 25 years as a longform current affairs television producer for ABC Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent and Dateline. He’s produced two Walkley Award-winners and won the New York Film and Television best documentary award. He worked with Bentley Dean to produce the award-winning Contact, a film about the last first-contact in the Western Desert of Australia. For the past three years he has devoted his life to First Footprints – a documentary exploring ancient Aboriginal history awarded the 2013 Walkley Award for documentary in 2013. Kathy Marks (@kathymarksoz) won the 2013 Walkley Award for Coverage of Indigenous Affairs for “Channelling Mannalargenna” – an essay published on the plight of Indigenous Tasmanians in Griffith REVIEW. Her work explored the links between the past and the present, a brutal history that still reverberates in today’s fragmented community. Marks was born in Manchester and worked for Reuters and Fleet Street newspapers before moving to Australia in 1999 as The Independent’s Asia-Pacific correspondent. A regular contributor to Good Weekend, The Monthly and Griffith REVIEW, her work was included in the Best Australian Essays 2010 collection (Black Inc.). Her 2008 book, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost (HarperCollins), won the Ned Kelly Award for true crime writing.