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Outrageous Fortunes

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Williamstown Town Hall: COMMITTEE ROOM
Williamstown VIC, Australia
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Sun, 22 Jun, 12pm - 1pm AEST

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Lucy Sussex (Outrageous Fortunes) introduces us to Australia’s first female crime writer Mary Fortune and her career-criminal son in conversation with Troy Hunter.

LUCY SUSSEX's books include Blockbuster! Fergus Hume and The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, which won the 2015 Victorian Community History Award, Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century and Saltwater in the Ink- Voices from the Australian Seas. She has a PhD from the University of Wales and is an honorary fellow at La Trobe University.

TROY HUNTER is writer whose debut YA crime novel - Gus and the Missing Boy - was published in March 2024 and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Best Debut Crime Fiction Award 2024. The sequel - Gus and the Burning Stones - is due out in August 2025. He’s currently working on an adult crime novel. Troy is also the co-host of the Queer Writes Sessions podcast.

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Williamstown Town Hall: COMMITTEE ROOM
Williamstown VIC, Australia
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