#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
7:30pm, Tuesday 19th May 2026
Ithaca Auditorium, Brisbane City Hall
64 Adelaide St, Brisbane City
There are Moscow rules, there are London rules… and now, there are Brisbane rules. Mick Herron, internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed Slough House spy thrillers — adapted for the screen as the smash-hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses — is headed our way to discuss the latest exploits of Jackson Lamb and his wisecracking crew of secret-service losers and outcasts. Join Herron in conversation with Matthew Condon as they visit Clown Town, the newest instalment in this witty, enthralling and beloved series.
#Artists
Mick Herron
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoë Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
Matthew Condon
Matthew Condon is an award-winning journalist and the author of more than 18 works of fiction and non-fiction, including the bestselling true crime trilogy – Three Crooked Kings, Jacks and Jokers and All Fall Down. His other books include The Trout Opera and The Motorcycle Café. His podcasts include Ghost Gate Road and The Gangster’s Ghost. In 2019 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to the community. He is a columnist for The Australian.
