Join us for an exciting evening at Berkelouw Paddington as we celebrate the release of High Rise by Gabriel Bergmoser. Think: Die Hard meets The Raid, but the funnier, grittier Australian version. Fast, furious and ferocious, this is thriller writing at its nail-biting, unputdownable best. Gabriel will be in conversation with Dani Vee as they discuss the book. There will be a In Conversation, Q&A and copies of the book available to be signed on the night.

This event is free, but RSVPs are essential.

About Gabriel Bergmoser

Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015, was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing and went on to win several awards at the 2017 VDL One Act Play Festival circuit. In 2016 his first young adult novel, Boone Shepard, was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize. His first novel for adults, The Hunted (2020), became a bestseller and a film adaptation is currently in development. Since then he has published the thrillers The Inheritance (2021) and The Caretaker (2023), along with the YA coming-of-age novel The True Colour of a Little White Lie (2021) and the middle-grade adventure Andromache Between Worlds (2024).

About High Rise

After a year of searching, rogue ex-cop Jack Carlin has finally found his estranged daughter, Morgan, holed up in the top floor of a rundown, grimy high-rise building. The trouble is, Jack's unconventional policing and information-gathering methods in the past has made him some serious enemies. And what Jack doesn't know as he heads into the building, intent on saving his daughter, is firstly, that Morgan doesn't want to be saved - particularly not by him - and secondly, that the entire criminal underworld in the city are on their way too... There's a bounty on his head, and they're after his blood - and they don't mind if Morgan is collateral damage.

As bounty hunters and gang members converge on the building, father and daughter are thrown into a desperate fight for survival through fifteen storeys of deadly enemies - with only each other to rely on.

About Dani Vee

Dani writes fun and funny books to engage kids in reading. She has a passion for encouraging kids to be themselves and love who they are. Every story shows how wonderfully unique we are, and how it should be celebrated. Dani is also writing adult commercial fiction. Dani was an English teacher/ Head teacher for 17 years.

Dani is the host of the host of the popular literary Podcast Words and Nerds, which has had more than 1.2 million downloads and continues to be an important part of the literary landscape

Dani is publisher at Larrikin House. She is also frequently on panels at literary festivals. Writers can request a manuscript assessment via the Larrikin House website.