Oct
1
9:00am
Book launch of Southern Cross Crime: Craig Sisterson’s Guide to the Crime Fiction, Film and TV of Australia and New Zealand
By CTTV
Join us for the launch of Southern Cross Crime, Craig Sisterson’s insightful take on the growing global appeal of crime fiction from Australia and New Zealand.
Craig and authors, Sulari Gentill and JP Pomare will be in conversation with Paul Burke as they take a look at the rude health, scope and creativity of antipodean writing, the authors to watch out for and a look at the new/upcoming novels of Sulari Gentill and JP Pomare.
📷Craig Sisterson is the author of Southern Cross Crime: The guide to the crime fiction, film and TV of Australia and New Zealand
Craig 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.
📷Sulari Gentill is the author of the award-winning and best-selling Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Greek mythology adventure series The Hero Trilogy, and winner of the Best Crime award at the 2018 Ned Kelly Awards, Crossing the Lines.
She set out to study astrophysics, graduated in law, and then abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts.
📷Born in Sri Lanka, Sulari learned to speak English in Zambia, grew up in Brisbane and now lives in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW where, with her historian husband, she grows French black truffles, cares for a variety of animals and raises two wild colonial boys. Sulari also paints, but only well enough to know she should write, preferably in her pyjamas.
Her latest book in the Rowland Sinclair series is A Testament of Character.
📷JP Pomare is award-winning Maori author (indigenous New Zealander) living in Melbourne who writes psychological thrillers, published globally.
He is the winner of the Ngaio Marsh best first novel, 2019 for Call Me Evie.
📷His latest book is In The Clearing, a ticking-clock thriller that braids together the stories of a girl raised in a terrifying cult, and of an overprotective single mother whose fears for her child are about to come true.
Paul Burke writes The Verdict column for nbmagazine.co.uk online and features for the quarterly magazine, he also contributes interviews, articles and features to CrimeTimeand the European Literature Network.
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