Published...Or Not

Fiona Hardy and Louise Milligan

The loss of a body in Fiona Hardy's latest novel, 'Old Game',' isn't the crime you'd expect in a work of detective fiction but that's not the only surprise when a tennis star's accolytes claim his remains.There are dangerous currents of untold secrets, a vicious Group in the Irish Catholic Church and facing trauma in ‘Shellybanks’, another crime novel by Louise Milligan.   

Claire Thomas and Bridie Blake

The resonance of literature and its interconnectedness with geography, the lives or artists and one's own individual journey intermingle in 'On Not Climbing Mountains' by Claire Thomas.Bridie Blake has written about the chaos and joy of big-family life – the overlapping conversations, the competitiveness, the laughter especially in suppressed desire and mouthwatering cakes in ‘The Boyfriend Clause’.             

Lisa Moule

'The Mother of All Calamities' is Lisa Moule's debut novel about the travails of parenting in the modern age.  She has reminded us about the joys and hazards of parenting by bringing alive the problems and delights of a year in Grade 3,.  Things go right and very wrong.    

Emily Webb and Penny Tangey

‘Murder in the Suburbs’ are true crime cases committed by neighbours or even family with often the psychological reason of why they did it, researched and written by Emily Webb.                                    A murder in the East Melbourne library seriously upsets the baby rhyme time session in Penny Tangey's murder mystery novel, 'What Rhymes With Murder'.

Michael Brissenden and Fiona Lowe with Sisters in Crime

A drying lake leads to a discovery of a corpse on a cracked shoreline in Michael Brissenden's, ‘Dust’. What follows is a tale of intrigue and deception in a morally deprived and environmentally compromised landscape.Fiona Lowe talks about her new book ‘The Drowning’ and also about Sisters in Crime and what that organisation does for readers and writers.