Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

The Reading Room
2024-05-27 13:30 - 2025-03-31 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Heritage Reading Room, Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia
In Conversation with Christian White & Josh Pomare

March 10

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6:00 pm

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7:30 pm

$11.78

Humffray Room

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Christian White

J.P. Pomare

The Long Night

Christian White

From the author of The Ledge A mother will do anything to save her daughter…

Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world. Twenty years ago, a terrible thing happened in Jodie Gibbs’ life. She has been trying to forget that time ever since, pouring her trauma into her work and out of her mind. Until one night her daughter is kidnapped and Jodie is dragged back into the violence. As Em and Jodie race into the darkness of the night, the agony of the past rushes up to meet them. It will take all their devotion and courage to escape this night alive. Bold, vivid and heart-racingly intense, The Long Night is the darkest and most exhilarating novel yet from bestselling author Christian White.

The Gambler

J. P. Pomare

A Vince Reid thriller From the author or 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

Christian White Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. He co-created the television series Carnivores, currently in development with Matchbox Pictures and Heyday TV, and co-wrote Relic, a psychological horror feature film to be produced by Carver Films (The Snowtown Murders, Partisan).Born and raised on the Mornington Peninsula, Christian had an eclectic range of ‘day jobs’ before he was able to write full-time, including food-cart driver on a golf course and video editor for an adult film company. He now spends his days writing from his home in Melbourne where he lives with his wife, the filmmaker Summer DeRoche, and their adopted greyhound, Issy. He has a passion for true crime podcasts, Stephen King and anything to do with Bigfoot.

Christian White, Author

Josh Pomare, Author

J.P. Pomare J. P. Pomare is a New Zealand author who lives in Melbourne, Australia.He is the author of a number of critically acclaimed and best-selling novels including Seventeen Years Later, Tell Me Lies, and The Wrong Woman.His novel In The Clearing was adapted for the screen as an eight part miniseries by Disney (The Clearing) and The Last Guests (Watching You) has been adapted as a series by Stan.

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

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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.

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