New date for postponed Swan and Williams event
We are so pleased to inform you that the date for the postponed Berry Conversation with Norman Swan and Robyn Williams has been confirmed as Sunday 20 November 2022 at 3 pm in the Berry Public School Hall.
Tickets will go on sale on October 1, through trybooking.com.au and at the Berry Music Centre.
This is an event for which you have been waiting following our July 2021 announcement of the COVID related postponement. Thank you for your patience.
Before that, a reminder that we look forward to seeing you on Sunday 24 July 2022 at 2 pm for Michael Robotham, best-selling crime writer in conversation with Sue Turnbull, specialist in crime writing.
Tickets for this first 2022 event will go on sale 1 June.
The Berry Conversations Committee
Conversation: Michael Robotham with Sue Turnbull
After a long absence, we are delighted to announce that the next Berry Conversation is going to be a ‘thriller’ and will feature the internationally acclaimed, best-selling crime writer, Michael Robotham and University of Wollongong Senior Professor, Sue Turnbull.
Before becoming a novelist, Michael was an investigative journalist working across America, Australia and Britain, and with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes. Michael’s 2004 debut thriller, The Suspect, which sold more than 1 million copies around the world, is being adapted for television. It is the first of nine novels featuring beloved Joe O’Loughlin. Lying Beside You is the third book in his newest series featuring forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, following Good Girl, Bad Girl and When She Was Good. Michael is the only Australian to win the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award twice – for Good Girl, Bad Girl and Life or Death. When She Was Good won the 2021 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and Good Girl, Bad Girl was shortlisted for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2020, The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for television. When You Are Mine, released last year, was an international bestseller.
Sue Turnbull is Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. Her publications include Media Audiences (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) The TV Crime Drama (Edinburgh University Press 2014) and Media and Communications in Australia with co-editor Stuart Cunningham (Allen and Unwin 2014). Sue is also chief crime fiction reviewer for The Sydney Morning and the Age; a Judge for the Ned Kelly Awards for Australian crime writing, chair of Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival and Roving Ambassador for Sisters in Crime Australia. She is a regular commentator on media issues, and a regular guest on The Screen Show and The Bookshelf on Radio National. Sue is a Board member of Screen Illawarra, an organisation lead by local screen professionals that has the admirable ambition to make the Illawarra a centre for global screen production.
Event details
Date: Sunday 24th July 2022
Time: 2.00-4.00pm
Location: Berry Public School Hall
Tickets: will be available on June 1st from The Berry Music Centre and online at trybooking.com.au
Price: $40 includes refreshments
Book sales and signing: Michael will have books available for sale and will happily sign them for you.
Seasons Greetings
The organizing committee wishes to extend its heartfelt best wishes for the holiday season and the new year to all our friends and followers in the Berry Community and beyond.
Be assured that it is our firm intention to continue with the Conversations as soon as it is possible to do so.
We are closely monitoring the public health situation and what that means for events such as ours. And we will keep you apprised of our plans.
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