BAD is returning in 2026:

Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 September

Fresh Blood 3: Sparkling New Crime Writing That Tackles Time And Place

AL Booth, Madeleine Cleary and Pip Fioretti

Podcaster Claudine Tinellis welcomes three new authors to the BAD Sydney scene, exploring different settings, different times and different crimes. Join A L Booth, Madeleine Cleary, and Pip Fioretti to discuss a post-WWI rural whodunnit, the hunt for a killer in the red-light district of gold-rush era Melbourne and the life of a Mounted Trooper investigating murders in the remote NSW bush in 1911.

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AL Booth, Madeleine Cleary and Pip Fioretti

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Claudine Tinellis

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Date: THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER

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