The Lineup Launch

Former champion surfer Bo Curren, now broken and afraid of the ocean, spends his days watching a surf webcam, until he witnesses a murder the police refuse to believe ever happened. With only the clue of a distinctive surfboard, Bo must return to the insular, dangerous surf world he abandoned to find the killer before they silence him too. Point Break meets Rear Window in this heart-pounding, suspenseful thriller set in Byron Bay.

Raised in Byron Bay, Nicholas Timms is a lifelong surfer with an intimate understanding of the culture; not just the movement of the waves, but the unspoken codes, carpark politics, and tensions beneath the surface. He now lives in Sydney, where he works as a senior copywriter at an advertising agency. The Lineup is his first novel.

Winner of the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize, James McKenzie Watson writes short and novel-length fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. Denizen was informed by his upbringing in regional NSW. James co-hosts the health and writing podcast James and Ashley Stay at Home and works as a nurse.

Drinks and nibblies provided.