
september book club
tuesday 17th || friday 20th
In store | Tickets $45 | Bookings essential
From bestselling Australian author Fiona McFarlane comes a gripping, provocative new novel. In overlapping stories, Highway 13 explores the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people. The contemporary structure of this book is sure to generate interesting discussion for our September Book Club.
Book Club Session Times:
- Tuesday 17 September 6.00-7.00pm
- Friday 20 September 10.30-11.30am

about book club
Participation is $45 per month, with each month needing to be booked separately. Each session includes:
- copy of the new release book
- moderated discussion
- drink on arrival, light refreshments (evening sessions) or takeaway coffee / tea, biscuits (daytime sessions)
(Please note: as drink orders for the day sessions will be taken at the start of each session to be prepared at a local café, late-arriving participants will not be included. BYO reusable cups encouraged!)
Places in each session are limited. A participant may only attend one session per month.
Books will be made available well in advance of session dates to ensure plenty of reading time. Once booked, we will make contact with participants with full information and timing.
Bookings for all sessions will fill on a first come, first served basis. A waitlist function will activate on the booking link in the event all sessions sell out.

Highway 13
Now Available
In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged with a series of brutal murders of backpackers along a highway. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims’ families, but its impact travels even further – into the past, as the murders rewrite personal histories, and into the future, as true crime podcasts and biopics tell the story of the crimes.
Highway 13 takes murder as its starting point, but it unfolds to encompass much more: through the investigation of the aftermath of this violence across time and place, from the killer’s home town in country Australia to the tropical Far North, and to Texas and Rome, McFarlane presents an unforgettable, entrancing exploration of the way stories are told and spread, and at what cost.
From the acclaimed author of The Sun Walks Down and The Night Guest comes a captivating account of loss and fear, and their extended echoes in individual lives.

about the author
Fiona McFarlane is the author of the novel The Night Guest, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and a collection of short stories, The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Best Australian Stories and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her most recent novel, The Sun Walks Down, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award, the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Born in Sydney, Fiona teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.