Join us in store at Harry Hartog Miranda as we celebrate the release of The Woman In The Waves by Camille Booker. Camille will be discussing her book, writing and journey to publication. Her newest book is a gripping piece of historical fiction. Camille's In Conversation partner will be announced closer to the event date.

About the book:

There’s something sinister lurking in the waves…

It’s 1921 in Widow’s Peak, a gloomy fishing village on the south coast of New South Wales. Nineteen-year-old Missy Green fills her days helping her fisherman father on his trawler, and spending time with her grandfather, the town’s reclusive lighthouse keeper. It’s a dreary existence. Everything in her sea salt-soaked life is upended, though, when she glimpses something in the water – a mermaid ominously staring at her.

About the author:

Camille is an author, creative writing teacher, and PhD student. She has a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and is currently pursuing her PhD, also in creative writing. Her debut novel, What If You Fly?, was longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2019, was runner up in the Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize in 2020, and was published with Hawkeye in 2021.

In 2022 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative 6 Month Novel Writing Course. During that time, she wrote her second historical fiction novel, The Woman In The Waves, which was then shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna/Affirm Press Mentorship Award, runner up in the 2023 CYA Conference Competition, and won both the Grand Prize of the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2022 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition and the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize, and will be published with Hawkeye in 2025.