Crime With Wine Vol.2: Shaeden Berry, Alex Dook, Kate Emery, David Whish-Wilson

You're invited to Crime With Wine Vol.2 featuring Shaeden Berry, Alex Dook, Kate Emery and David Whish-Wilson.

Come, sit, sip your wine and be entertained at the second Books in the Brewery celebration of crime fiction featuring four of WA's brightest talents.

Our guest authors will be discussing their new books and all things crime - favourite detectives (mine's Titus Welliver as Bosch, just saying), must watch TV (Dept. Q. anyone?), inspiration for their novels, writing insights, and best way to murder somebody (on the page, honest!) followed by the opportunity for audience questions and book signings thanks to the incomparable team at Boundless Books.

Throughout the night our authors will be invited to read to you, something of their own and something from one of their favourite writers.

$18 ticket includes entry and a glass of wine.

Seating will be cabaret style at tables. Dinner service will be available from the bar.

Approx times:

6pm - Doors open

645pm - Panel discussion & readings

815pm - Book sales, signings, photo ops

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Shaeden Berry

Shaeden Berry is a writer with a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing, and a Master's in Writing. Her short stories have featured in anthologies such as Kill Your Darlings' New Australian Fiction 2023, The Unexpected Party and Strangely Enough. She lives in Boorloo with her partner and their two cats, Frumpkin and George. Shaeden's debut novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, was published by Echo Publishing in 2024 and shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Emerging Writer in 2025.

Alex Dook

Alex Dook is a writer based in Perth, Western Australia. His previous writing has been longlisted for the 2019 Fogarty Literary Award and Highly Commended in the 2021 Fogarty Literary Award. Gunpowder Creek is his first novel.

Kate Emery

Kate Emery is an award-winning author from Perth, Western Australia. Her cosy YA murder mystery, My Family and Other Suspects won the YA category Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2025, the 2025 ABIA for 13+ readers, the YA category at the Indie Book Awards, was a CBCA notable book and has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her next book, A Murder Is Going Down is out in November 2025.

David Whish-Wilson

David Whish-Wilson is the author of eleven novels and three creative non-fiction books. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. At eighteen, he left Australia to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig.

David is the author of four novels in the Frank Swann crime series and two in the Lee Southern series, two of which have been shortlisted for Ned Kelly Awards. David wrote the Perth book in the NewSouth Books city series, which was shortlisted for a Western Australian Premier’s Book Award.

He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, with his partner and three kids, and teaches creative writing at Curtin University.