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In Conversation with Christian White and J. P. Pomare

Ballarat Mechanics Institute

117-119 Sturt Street,
Ballarat Central VIC 3350

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  • Tue 10 Mar

6pm–7:30pm

$11.78 per person

Includes light refreshment, also includes gst and booking fee

Christian and Josh will be in conversation talking about their new books:

From the author of The Ledge, Christian White's The Long Night is bold, vivid and heart-racingly intense. It is the darkest and most exhilarating novel yet from bestselling author Christian White.

From the author of 17 Years Later, The Gambler by J.P. Pomare is a book about 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.

What is not to love about this session.

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 His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.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).

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.

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