In Conversation with Kate Mildenhall & Josh Pomare
Humffray Room
The Hiding Place
Kate Mildenhall
From the Author of Skylarking, The Mother Fault and The Hummingbird Effect
They’re good people. Why shouldn’t they get what they deserve?
When Lou sees an ad for a long-abandoned mining town up for sale, it doesn’t take her long to convince her sister and their oldest friends to go in on the idyllic property buried in the bush – a place where the four families can hide away on weekends, get back to nature and unstick the kids from their screens.
But things start to go wrong before they even arrive for their first camping trip – a rogue deer sends a trailer off the road, a neighbour complains about the fence line and squatters have set up camp down by the river. Soon none of that will matter, though, because by the end of the first night someone will be dead.
At first it seems that hiding a body is easier than keeping other sorts of secrets: a lost job, an illegal crop, an outrageous affair, a little embezzlement. But what’s buried has a way of coming to the surface, and even in the bush, it’s hard to remain unseen.
White Lotus meets The Slap in a razor-sharp literary thriller about deception and self-deception, and how far people will go to protect what they feel they ought to have.
‘Absolutely brilliant. I wish I had written this book.’ Hayley Scrivenor, author of Dirt Town
The Gambler
J. P. Pomare
A Vince Reid thriller
From the author of 17 Years Later
PI Vince Reid is visiting an old friend when he’s offered a case he can’t Why did a respected local woman open fire at a political rally, killing a promising young university graduate? It’s easy money, he’s told. A sure thing.
But as Reid delves further into the case, the stakes are higher than he imagined. There are invisible players pulling the strings. Will he walk away a winner or pay for the ultimate gamble with his life?
PRAISE FOR THE THRILLERS OF J.P. POMARE, including The Wrong Woman and 17 Years
‘Seriously good’ DERVLA McTIERNAN
‘There’s no better storyteller in the thriller game than Pomare’ COURIER MAIL
‘Shocking, twisty and impossible to put down’ CHRISTIAN WHITE
‘Propulsive. Clever. Satisfying’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Grabbed me from the opening page and didn’t let go’ MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
‘Pomare is a master of the impeccably paced psycho-thriller’ THE AUSTRALIAN
About the authors
This event will be supported by Collins Booksellers on Lydiard
$11.78 per person includes booking fee & gst, also includes light refreshment. All proceeds go to the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to support the staging of our author events.
Book on-line or contact Rosemary at the Libary via email library@ballaratmi.org.au or phone (03) 5331 3042
This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.
