Capital Crime: What's Going on in OZ?

Leonardo St Paul's, London  

GOLDSBORO BOOKS STAGE 

 Friday 13 June 2025
13:50 - 14:40

Chris Hammer, Hayley Scrivenor, Kate Kemp,
and moderator Craig Sisterson,
discuss the new favourite destination for Crime Fiction.

Chris Hammer has been a journalist for over twenty-five years. He has been an international correspondent for SBS TV's flagship current affairs program Dateline, the chief political correspondent for The Bulletin and a senior political journalist for The Age. His non-fiction book, The River, published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2010 to critical acclaim, was the recipient of the ACT Book of the Year Award. 

Hayley Scrivenor is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. Dirt Creek is her first novel (published as Dirt Town in Europe and Australia). An earlier version of the book was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and won The Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. Originally from a small country town. Hayley now lives and writes on Dharawal country and has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Wollongong on the south coast of Australia. 

Kate Kemp is an Australian writer living in the UK. She trained as an occupational therapist and then as a systemic psychotherapist and has worked with families and individuals in mental health services in both Australia and the UK.  In 2021, she won the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction and the Yeovil Literary Prize. The Grapevine is her first novel.

Craig Sisterson, is a former lawyer who grew up among Middle Earth scenery in New Zealand, solving mysteries alongside the Hardy Boys, Hercule Poirot, and Agaton Sax. He now lives in London and writes for magazines and newspapers in several countries, intercut with being an event chair, festival founder, and book awards judge.