Paul Harmon is my guest at Thursday Book Club on 19 September 2024
Dear Friends
I'm delighted to have filmmaker, author and photographer, Paul Harmon, as my guest on Thursday Book Club next week (Thursday 19 September). Paul's new book, Seven Treasures, is both a present-day art mystery and World War Two thriller.
Craig Kirchner of Abbey's Bookshop made it one of his recent bookseller's picks:
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- In Sydney, Mark finds his life adrift - divorced and unemployed - and in looking for a way out, buys a fixer-upper in southern France. It doesn't take long before questions and secrets arise around Mark's newly adopted town of Villemont. Paul Harmon's thoughtful novel moves between timelines of present-day and of 80 years ago, drawing on themes around provincial life in southern France, Jewish persecution and art theft during WWII, the plight of refugees - and a dash of internal life upheaval, starting over and finding love again. Craig
Hope you can join Paul and me next week!
Space to Create is an artists' residency program located in Maroubra. Together with seven other artists - painters, mixed media artists, writers, filmmakers - I have an office in the Space to Create area. An initiative of Randwick City Council and Randwick City Libraries, it's been a wonderful way to both focus on my writing and connect with other local creatives. Space to Create: A Showcase of Randwick Artists is an exhibition of select works by my visual artist colleagues, Paul Wan, Vickie Liu, Harry Tolitsas and Dennis Golding. The exhibition is free to attend in the Lionel Bowen Library in Maroubra with an exhibition showcase at 1pm on Saturday 28 September. The showcase is also free to attend and you can book your ticket here.
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival has begun! Today, tomorrow and Saturday, the State Library of NSW will be buzzing with writers and readers alike. You can find the full program here. For the session Fresh Talent: Danger, Danger Everywhere, I'll be interviewing three great writers: Bruce Nash (All the Words We Know), Mitch Jennings (A Town called Treachery) and Zahid Gamieldien (All the Missing Children).
Congratulations to those of you who have already won tickets to sessions at BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. Happily, I have more giveaways to my session and other sessions at BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival this Friday and Saturday. Just reply to this email with a book recommendation by 5pm tonight and you'll go in the draw. Good luck!
Hope to see many of you at the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival - do come up and say hi!
Suzanne xx