Central Coast book lovers are in for a treat with three author book events set to take place in the region during October.
Local author, Andrew Kwong, will visit Kincumber Library on October 13 to discuss his debut book One Bright Moon.
Released in 2020, the book won the 2021 Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work in the National Biography awards.
Kwong was born in Zhongshan in the Pearl River Delta, China, and educated in China, Hong Kong and Australia.
He works as a GP on the Central Coast and has published many short stories, receiving numerous writing awards and fellowships.
He was only seven when he witnessed his first execution.
The grim scene left him sleepless, anxious and doubtful about his fervour as a revolutionary in Mao’s New China.
At the age of 12 he undertook the perilous journey to salvation in Australia.
One Bright Moon is the poignant, resonant story of a young boy’s awakening – to survival, education, fulfilment, and eventually to a new life of freedom.
In Conversation with Andrew Kwong will take place at Kincumber Library from 6.30-7.30pm on Thursday, October 13.
On October 17, crime thriller fiction lovers will be in for a treat when Roger Simpson visits Kincumber Library to discuss his very first Halifax novel Transgression.
An award-winning screen writer and producer, Roger Simpson delivers more insight into the mind of Jane Halifax, the heroine of drama TV series, in his debut novel.
He will explain how he created the character especially for Rebecca Gibney, and how the series attracted high profile actors such as Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving, Frances O’Connor, Guy Pearce, Jacqueline McKenzie, Ben Mendelsohn and Richard Roxburgh.
Simpson also created the cult series Good Guys, Bad Guys (1996–1998), the police drama Stingers (which ran for eight seasons until 2004), the much-loved rural serial Something In the Air (2000–2002), the teenage sci-fi sensation Silver Sun (2004–2005) and the top-rating streaming series Satisfaction (2007–2010).
Transgression sees Halifax embark on the most challenging and chilling case of her career, with her criminal profiling possibly the only way to track down Australia’s most dangerous serial killer yet.
Roger Simpson presents Halifax Transgression from 1-2pm on Monday, October 17, at Kincumber Library.
Finally, bestselling crime author Chris Hammer will discuss his latest gripping and atmospheric thriller The Tilt at Laycock St Community Theatre on October 27.
The multi-layered novel centres on newly-minted homicide detective Nell Buchanan as she returns to her home town, annoyed at being assigned a decades-old murder.
The discovery of more bodies triggers a chain of escalating events in the present day.
Hammer is the acclaimed and award-winning author of the international bestsellers Scrublands, Silver, Trust and Treasure & Dirt.
He has also written two non-fiction books, The River (2010) and The Coast (2012).
In Conversation with Chris Hammer will be at Laycock St Community Theatre from 6.30-7.30pm on Thursday, October 27.
Reservations for all three events are essential on Council’s website.
Terry Collins