Dark Days Hotel Launch

From the internationally bestselling author of The Safe Place and Red River Road, a deliciously dark and twisty thriller about health, wealth and our dangerous obsession with the two. 

Anna Downes is the internationally bestselling author of The Safe Place, The Shadow House,and Red River Road (shortlisted for the 2025 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year), as well as the audio exclusive Break Me Down. Born and raised in Sheffield, UK, she studied Drama at the University of Manchester and acting at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before working professionally until 2011, when she moved to Australia and turned her hand to writing. Her novels have been optioned for both film and TV, and translated into over ten different languages. She now lives on the NSW Central Coast with her husband and two children.

Naima Brown holds degrees in Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology and Religious Studies. Her essays have appeared in Vogue Australia, the Guardian Australia, and more. She wrote, along with Melissa Doyle, the non-fiction book How to Age Against the Machine. She has spent over a decade working in news, current affairs and documentary - save for her brief stint in reality TV, which inspired her first novel, The Shot. She was born and raised in Northern California before living and working in Yemen and Afghanistan, and now lives in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales with her husband and her dog. Mother Tongue is her second novel.

Drinks and nibblies provided.