Name: Panel Discussion with ACT Book of the Year Shortlisted Authors
Start: 2024-11-22T18:00:00+11:00
Location: Libraries ACT (Woden branch)

Panel Discussion with ACT Book of the Year Shortlisted Authors

Join Libraries ACT for a discussion with ACT Book of the Year Shortlisted authors Chris Hammer, J Ashley-Smith, Ayesha Inoon, Laura Rademaker, and Paul Hetherington, in conversation with T. R. Napper. Come along as they discuss their work, what inspires them and how they have gotten to be on the ACT Book of the Year shortlist.
Chris Hammer – The Seven
Chris Hammer is a leading Australian author of crime fiction. In The Seven, Yuwonderie's seven founding families have lorded it over their district for a century, growing ever more rich and powerful. But now—in startling circumstances—one of their own is found dead in a ditch and homicide detectives Ivan Lucic and Nell Buchanan are sent to investigate.

J. Ashley-Smith – The Measure of Sorrow
Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith’s first collection,
The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. Intelligent and emotionally complex, these stories elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.

Paul Hetherington – Sleeplessness
Paul Hetherington is Emeritus Professor of Writing in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra and a distinguished Australian poet. Sleeplessness renders and explores its speaker's insomnia for the hours between three a.m. and the early morning, presenting a captivating series of reflections on love and desire, language, reading, identity and intersubjectivity.

Ayesha Inoon – Untethered
Ayesha Inoon is a Sri Lankan-Australian writer with a unique cultural perspective, which she brings to her writing. This debut novel offers a beautifully nuanced migrant story set in both Sri Lanka and Australia, featuring the city of Canberra with delightful local details.

Laura Rademaker – Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up
Laura Rademaker lives in Canberra and is an ARC DECRA research fellow and author. Tiwi Story is a book with a clear agenda and is a valuable example for those wishing to write and record oral histories.