BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021: "To Kill the Dog or Not?"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021. "To Kill the Dog or Not?" Is there a line a crime writer should not cross at the risk of alienating their readers? In this lively debate, Sulari Gentill, Robert Gott, Jean Kittson and Sue Turnbull will take sides on w…

BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021 " The Past is Never Past"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021. "The Past is Never Past" Unresolved violent events in the past have a way of coming back to haunt the present. Andy Muir interviews three writers whose protagonists’ lives are turned upside down when the past which th…

BAD SYDNEY CRIMES WRITER'S FESTIVAL 2021: "Through the Eyes of a Child"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021. "Through the Eyes of a Child" How do children explain the inexplicable, understand the incomprehensible?  Mark Brandi and Lyn Yeowart talk about their two very different books, in which frightened children living in r…

BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021: "Australia as a Crime Scene"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. "Australia as a Crime Scene" Has the whole of Australia become a crime scene since colonisation? Where do we start to look? First Nations speakers Kodie Bedford, Jul…

BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021: "Close Encounters with a Murderer"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. "Close Encounters with a Murderer" How does having a friend murdered and knowing the murderer affect you? One of Australia’s best-known novelists, Robert Drewe, talk…

"Crime Writers Talking Books for Lismore Library" With Candice Fox, Chris Hammer and Michael Robotham

“Libraries are all about the stories they contain.” Catherine du Peloux Menage Earlier this year Lismore Library was devastated by the horrendous floods, after having just rebuilt and recovered from the floods of the previous year. Moved by an image of hundreds of books being thrown out of the win…

BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021: "The Way it is Now"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Dr Sue Turnbull. "The Way it is Now" Bad Sydney Chair, Professor, Reviewer and Judge, Dr Sue Turnbull, talks to award winning Crime Writer, Garry Disher. Garry is the celebrated winner of the 2…

"Take a Life to Save a Life" with Jane Caro and Debra Oswald

Suzanne Leal talks to bestselling authors Jane Caro and Debra Oswald about the moral conundrum they explore in their gripping new novels: is it ever be justifiable to take a life in order to save one?  https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au GO TO THE BAD SYDNEY BOOKTOPIA PAGE to purchase recently r…

"An unusual pathway to publication" Rae Cairns debut ‘The Good Mother"

In this episode, Andy Muir talks with Rae Cairns about her debut crime thriller ‘The Good Mother’, a story of a mother forced to confront her past when her son travels to Ireland. How hard will a mother fight to protect her family? But that’s not the only story that is explored. This novel has had …

BAD SYDNEY CRIME WRITERS FESTIVAL 2021: "Fresh Blood"

This episode is a presentation from the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival 2021, with an introduction by Andy Muir and Suzanne Leal. "FRESH BLOOD" Bad All About Crime Podcast host, Andy Muir is in conversation with 3 new writers about their varying experiences of launching their first novels and t…