The Craft of Crime: in conversation with Sulari Gentill and Chris Hammer

Overview

The Friends of the National Library present two of Australia’s preeminent crime writers in conversation with crime fiction reviewer Anna Steele.

Join for an intriguing discussion followed by a Q&A session and book-signing.

Friends members receive 15 percent discount at the National Library of Australia Bookshop.

Sulari Gentill is the author of the multi-award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a series of (currently) ten historical crime novels set in 1930s Australia. Her widely praised standalone novel, 'After She Wrote Him' (2024), won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel and was shortlisted for the Davitt Award. Most recently, she published 'The Mystery Writer' (2024), and the award-winning and 'USA Today' bestselling 'The Woman in the Library' (2023).

Chris’s first book, 'Scrublands', was an instant bestseller when it was published in mid-2018. It won the prestigious UK Crime Writers Association John Creasy Award for a debut crime novel in 2019 and was shortlisted for various awards in Australia and the United States.

Anna was Head of English at Canberra Grammar school until her retirement in 2005. Writing as Anna Creer, she reviewed crime fiction for 'The Canberra Times' and the ACM Press for over a decade. Her reviews of crime fiction now appear in 'Canberra City News'.