The Tea Ladies Tour of Surry Hills: Glad Rags and Body Bags
The Surry Hills garment industry can be traced back to the nineteenth century and became one of the state’s largest employers in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, as the Singer sewing machines sang in the sweatshops, …
Pitch to an agent
If you have a completed manuscript or are well advanced on your book, BAD offers you the opportunity to talk to agent Abigail Nathan (Alex Adsett Literary) for a short 6-minute pitch session. If you’re …
Pitch to a publisher
If you have a completed manuscript or are well advanced on your book, BAD offers you the opportunity to talk to fiction publisher Roberta Ivers (HarperCollins) for a short 6-minute pitch session. If you’re at …
You find a dead body: What now?
The scene: You’re going for a morning walk with your dog. Naturally, you find a dead body. What happens after you call 000? Of course you’ve read about this in crime novels and seen the …
Takes all sorts
Crime fiction is a generous genre. Browse the shelves for locked room mysteries, cosy crime, tales of the private eye, police procedurals, thrillers from the legal to the ecological and psychological, historical mysteries and meta-fictional …
Is interest in true crime harmful or helpful?
It would appear that we can’t get enough true crime books, podcasts and TV shows. But is this good for us? Does true crime keep us informed? Does it bring injustice to light? Does it …
Fresh talent: Women in peril and the women who write them
Every day women are in peril and Australia is experiencing an epidemic of domestic violence. Many women are in danger in the home and from those closest to them. This is reflected in the fiction …
All crime is local
Are people affected by place? Crime novels offer the chance to explore the intimate relationship between landscape and those who live – and kill – there. Michaela Kalowski talks to three writers who go local and deep – Michael Duffy (the Blue Mountains), Natalie Conyer (South Africa and Sydney) and Alan …
Justice and the wisdom of elders
Is justice delivered justly to all or are some groups better served by the justice system than others? Indigenous Australians are overly represented in prisons and Aunty Barbara Nicholson helps give a voice to inmates …
The Bush Justice Rodeo
Rural noir and country-based true crime fascinates readers both in Australia and overseas, in part because these genres open the gate on the challenges of remote policing and rural court processes, and the delivery of …