Shane Maloney, Malla Nunn and Leigh Redhead Three of Australia’S Favourite Crime Fiction Writers Will Join Together for a Night of Crime of Story and of Place

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Shane Maloney, Malla Nunn and Leigh Redhead Three of Australia’S Favourite Crime Fiction Writers Will Join Together for a Night of Crime of Story and of Place

The Institute of Social Transformation Research (ISTR), The Faculty of Arts, The Faculty of Creative Arts and The South Coast Writers Centre present: ‘A Murderous Place: Crime Fiction Writers Talking About Place’ Featuring: Shane Maloney, Malla Nunn and Leigh Redhead Three of Australia’s favourite crime fiction writers will join together for a night of crime of story and of place. Date: Friday 7th December 2012 Time: 6.30pm Location: Wollongong Town Hall $15 concession and SCWC members/ $20 all others Tickets through the Wollongong Town Hall Ph: (02) 4227 5088 or http://www.wollongongtownhall.com.au/events.php#A Murderous Place A Murderous Place: A panel of Australia's leading crime Leigh Redhead writers talk about place and its significance in their work Leigh Redhead's first novel, Peepshow, burst onto the with Shane Maloney, Malla Nunn and Leigh Redhead. crime fiction scene in 2004, introducing PI Simone Kirsch Can a city or a place be a character in a book? Do the seedy to readers. Simone made her next appearance streets of Melbourne, the flashy sand and sun of the Gold in Rubdown and then Cherry Pie. Thrill City, the fourth Coast, the sparkling Sydney Harbour hiding many a misdeed, book in the Simone Kirsch series, was published in 2010. dictate where crime writers set their stories? And why has no one, except the Godfather of Crime, Peter Corris, written All Welcome a crime fiction novel set in Wollongong? Come and hear Australia’s leading crime fiction authors dish the dirt about For more information contact Phillipa Newling – crime, place and fiction. [email protected] Shane Maloney Shane Maloney is the creator of the popular Australian Presented as part of the crime novel series – the Murray Whelan novels: Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Telling Truths: Crime Fiction and National Allegory Fishy and Sucked In. The Brush-Off won the Ned Kelly Prize Conference for Crime Fiction in 1996. It was also shortlisted for the http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/research/istr/UOW Premiers Literary Award. Nice Try was a nominee for the Age 121005.html Book of the Year in 2000. In 2004, Stiff and The Brush- Off were adapted for the screen by John Clarke and made into movies with David Wenham in the role of Murray Whelan. In 2009, he was presented with the Crime Writers' Association of Australia Lifetime Achievement Award. Malla Nunn Malla Nunn was born in Swaziland, southern Africa, but moved to Australia in the 1970s. Her first novel, A Beautiful Place to Die (2009), was published internationally and won the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel by an Australian female author. It was also shortlisted in the prestigious US Edgar Awards for Best Novel. Let the Dead Lie was highly commended in the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Awards. .

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