author event: garry disher

thursday 2 may ||  6.30pm

In store  |  Tickets $15  |  Bookings essential

We are thrilled to welcome bestselling author and Peninsula local, Garry Disher, to celebrate the release of his 60th published book, in a career spanning 43 years. The new book, Sanctuary, is set in the region of Garry’s childhood, the Adelaide Hills, and is a thrilling, taut, page-turning new rural crime novel from one of Australia’s most esteemed writers.  

6.15pm arrival for a 6.30pm start.

Sanctuary

Available 3 April

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia’s most esteemed crime authors.

Grace is a thief- a good one. She was taught by experts and she’s been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items-stamps, watches-and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it’s a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It’s not the life she wants.

Lying low after a run-in with an old associate, Grace walks into Erin Mandel’s rural antiques shop and sees a chance for something different. A normal job. A place to call home.

But someone is looking for Erin. And someone’s looking for Grace, too. And they are both, in their own ways, very dangerous men.

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia’s most esteemed crime authors.

about the author

Garry Disher was born in 1949 and grew up on his parents’ farm in South Australia. He gained post graduate degrees from Adelaide and Melbourne Universities. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short story collection. He travelled widely overseas, before returning to Australia, where he taught creative writing, finally becoming a full-time writer in 1988.

Sanctuary is Garry’s 60th published book. Many of his titles are highly praised, prize-winning and widely translated books in a range of genres: crime thrillers, literary/general novels, short-story collections, YA/children’s fiction, and writers’ handbooks.  His growing international reputation has seen him tour Germany and the United States, where his crime and YA novels have appeared on best-books-of-the-year lists. Disher has also won various awards, including four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.