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Tag Archives: Kerry Greenwood
Review: Unnatural Habits
Explaining his reason for wrapping up the Kenzie-Gennaro series, Dennis Lehane allegedly says, “Have you every heard anyone say ‘The seventeenth book in the series was my favorite’?” Perhaps Mr Lehane lacks Ms Greenwood’s chutzpah as I’m here to say Unnatural Habits, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews & Interviews
Tagged Abbotsford Convent, Angela Savage, Kerry Greenwood, Phryne Fisher, review, Unnatural Habits
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Crime & Justice Festival 2012 debrief: Part 1
For three days last week, a stretch of Collins Street in Melbourne’s CBD between Swanston and Russell Streets was transformed into a literary precinct, a string of new venues hosting the return of the Reader’s Feast Crime and Justice Festival. … Continue reading
Crime in church (not what you’re thinking)
As someone who never enters a church these days unless it’s for a funeral, I’m unusually excited at the prospect of appearing both in a church and convent in the forthcoming week. This weekend I’m in the Baptist Church at … Continue reading
Crime & Justice Festival 2012
It is fitting that Ian Rankin is headlining this year’s Crime & Justice Festival, harking as he does from Edinburgh, the first UNESCO City of Literature. With Reader’s Feast Bookstore now operating from their chic premises on Collins Street, the Crime & … Continue reading
Recreating the past: Agatha Christie, archaeology & fiction
‘Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim [In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate]. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Eh bien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey … Continue reading
Posted in Literary giants
Tagged Agatha Christie, Angela Savage, archaeology, Bernard Caleo, crime fiction, Kerry Greenwood, Mesopotamia, Patrick Greene
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Murder in Mesopotamia: Agatha Christie & Archeology
From the Melbourne Museum website. Reproduced with permission. What do crime fiction and archaeology have in common? A public forum at Melbourne Museum on 9 September will solve this intriguing question with a focus on famous crime writer Agatha Christie’s … Continue reading
Posted in Melbourne
Tagged Agatha Christie, Angela Savage, archeology, Kerry Greenwood, Max Mallowan, Melbourne Museum, Mespotamia, Murder in Mesopotamia
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SheKilda all right
A couple of things struck me–fortunately neither a blunt object nor a stiletto–at the SheKilda Australian Women’s Crime Convention in Melbourne last weekend. So many women, including distinguished and established writers, talked about their fears and doubts when it came … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Festival, Sisters in Crime
Tagged Amanda Wrangles, Angela Savage, Carolyn Morwood, Davitt Awards 2011, Felicity Pulman, Judith Rodriguez, Katherine Howell, Kathryn Fox, Kerry Greenwood, Kylie Fox, LA Larkin, Leigh Redhead, Lindy Cameron, Malla Nunn, Margie Orford, Nicole Watson, PD Martin, PM Newton, SheKilda, Sisters in Crime Australia, Sulari Gentill, Tara Moss, women writers, work-life balance, working mother, YA Erskine
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The Book Show
I had the great pleasure this morning of appearing on The Book Show on Radio National with my sister in crime Kerry Greenwood to talk about women’s crime writing and plug SheKilda. Kerry and I had the studio to ourselves … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Festival
Tagged Angela Savage, Diana Gribble, Dominic Knight, Kerry Greenwood, Phryne Fisher, Radio National, SheKilda, The Book Show
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SheKilda Again
In 2001, the Sisters in Crime Australia celebrated their tenth anniversary by holding the country’s first crime convention in the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne; hence the name, SheKilda. Rumour has it the SheKilda organising committee took a decade … Continue reading