Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

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2024-01-09 14:00 - 2024-05-14 15:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Lending Library, Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, 3350, Australia
In Conversation with Margaret Hickety

August 3

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6:00 pm

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7:30 pm

$11.00

Humffray Room

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Cold River

Margaret Hickey

Margaret will be in conversation with author Gregory Flood

Deep in the mountains, secrets grow deadly…

Detective Constable Sally White knows how easily hikers can go missing in Victoria’s high country. But there’s something about the disappearance of Louis Taylor, a young man lost up Mount Viking, that’s not sitting right with her. Louis was an aspiring journalist, researching the illegal tobacco trade – also known as chop chop – that was once so prevalent in the area. And the last person he interviewed before his hike has just met a gruesome end . . . But with no other leads, and with the search winding down, Sally is forced to accept the young man died in a tragic accident. Until she learns of another missing person case that bears striking similarities. Astrid Marlowe, a young lawyer, vanished in the same mountains two years before. Were Louis and Astrid simply unlucky hikers lost in the treacherous terrain? Or did they both stumble into something – or someone – they shouldn’t?

About the author

Margaret Hickey, Author | Image: Colin Usher

Margaret Hickey Margaret Hickey was born in London to Australian parents and grew up in small country towns across Victoria. She studied in Melbourne and has travelled extensively through the Middle East, South America, Asia and Europe.Margaret has been shortlisted and has won prizes in awards including the Grace Marion Emerging Writer’s prize and the Victorian Regional Writing prize. Her plays have been performed in Melbourne (La Mama), Brisbane, New York and regional Victoria. Margaret holds a PhD in Creative writing, specialising in depictions of landscape in Australian literature. Her new novel, Cutters End will be published by Penguin Random House in Sept, 21. A La Trobe valedictorian, Margaret’s PhD was nominated for the Nancy Millis award for excellence in thesis writing. She works as a lecturer, teacher, public presenter and is a regular guest on ABC regional radio.Margaret lives in the North East of Victoria with her husband and three sons in a house on the edge of a gorge.

About the host

Gregory Flood Gregory Flood is a writer, lawyer and musician based in Ballarat. For the past twenty-five years, he has balanced his musical career with his work as a lawyer providing advice to authors, publishers and musicians and has been a director of numerous companies in the music and arts sectors.

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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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