Second Sight/The Long Drop
Aoife Clifford + Denise Mina (UK)
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
True Crime
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#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 45 minutes
Second Sight: Crime and secrets in an Australian town. A thrilling story of lost friendships and terrible betrayal.
The Long Drop: The "trial of the century" in 1950's Glasgow is over. Peter Manuel has been found guilty of a string of murders and is waiting to die by hanging. But every good crime story has a beginning.
BWF acknowledges the support of the British Council and Creative Scotland.
Chair: Ben Hobson
Denise Mina appears with the support of the British Council
Denise Mina appears with the support of Creative Scotland
#Artists
Aoife Clifford
Aoife Clifford’s novel Second Sight will be published in July 2018. Her best-selling first novel All These Perfect Strangers was long listed for the Australian Industry General Fiction Book of the Year and the Voss Literary Prize.
Her short stories have been published in Australia, United Kingdom and the United States and she has won the two premier short story competition for crime fiction in Australia – the Scarlet Stiletto and S.D.Harvey Ned Kelly Award among other prizes. She has also been short listed for the UK Crime Association’s Debut Dagger. In 2014 she was awarded an Australian Society of Authors mentorship for her novel, All These Perfect Strangers.
Born in London of Irish parents, she grew up in New South Wales, studied Arts/Law at the Australian National University, Canberra and now lives in Melbourne.
Denise Mina (UK)
Scottish novelist Denise Mina has published 12 novels and also writes short stories, plays and graphic novels.
In 2014 she was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame.
Denise presents TV and radio programmes as well as regularly appearing in the media, and has made a film about her own family.
She regularly appears at literary festivals in the UK and abroad, leads masterclasses on writing and was a judge for the Bailey’s Prize for Women’s Fiction 2014.
#Moderator
Ben Hobson
Ben Hobson is a teacher, and an author, based in Brisbane. To Become a Whale, his debut novel, was released in 2017. It was longlisted for the ABIA Debut Fiction award and shortlisted for the Courier-Mail's People's Choice Award. His second novel, Snake Island, a literary thriller, was released in 2019. He also runs Ben's Book Club, a monthly online book club for libraries, and the Burgers, Beers and Books podcast. The Death of John Lacey is his third novel, and was released in February, 2023.
