Event #22

Reverberations

Thu 8 Oct 2026

Katie Hoskins + Jock Serong + Danny Ben-Moshe + Laura McCluskey

Underground Theatre

Regular Program

#Performances

Thu 8 Oct 2026 - 6:00pm

Underground Theatre

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#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Reverberations

Katie Hoskins (When the Party’s Over), Jock Serong (Cherrywood), Danny Ben-Moshe (The Watchmaker’s War), Laura McCluskey (The Cursed Road).
Chair: Ella Jeffery
6–7pm, Thursday 8 October, Underground Theatre

From chilling small-town secrets and scandalous suburban drama to a tantalising puzzlebox mystery and a quest for revenge against Nazis in postwar Melbourne, these immersive and spellbinding novels chart the costs and consequences of our actions, asking how far we might go for what we believe and who we love.

#Artists

Katie Hoskins

Katie Hoskins is a communications professional and author of When the Party's Over. Originally from the south coast of England, she travelled to Sydney in 2007 to study journalism. After she fell in love with the Australian lifestyle, she is now happily raising her family here in the sunshine.

Jock Serong

Jock Serong is the author of Quota, winner of the 2015 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction; The Rules of Backyard Cricket, shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, finalist of the 2017 MWA Edgar Awards for Best Paperback Original, and finalist of the 2017 Indie Book Awards Adult Mystery Book of the Year; and On the Java Ridge, which won the Colin Roderick Award and, internationally, the inaugural Staunch Prize (UK), and was shortlisted for the 2018 Indie Awards. He has won praise for his trilogy of historical novels Preservation; The Burning Island, which earned him the ARA Historical Novel Prize and the Historia Award for Historical Crime Fiction (France); and The Settlement, which was shortlisted for the Voss Prize and the ARA Historical Novel Prize. His most recent novel, Cherrywood, was shortlisted for both the 2025 Indie Book Awards and the 2025 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year.

Danny Ben-Moshe

Danny Ben-Moshe, a Walkley Award winning filmmaker, has made multiple documentaries, many with Jewish themes, for the ABC, SBS & international broadcasters including the BBC. His novel, The Watchmaker’s War, is based on the true story told in his ABC-BBC film Revenge: Our Dad the Nazi Killer.

Laura McCluskey

Laura McCluskey is a writer, producer and actor. She is a co-founder of Sybilline Films and Three Fates Theatre Company, and has performed across theatre, film and television. Her debut novel, The Wolf Tree, the first in a series featuring Scottish detectives George Lennox and Richie Stewart.