Sydney Writers' Festival - Jane Harper

Watch the livestream of Jane Harper talking about Last One Out streaming direct from the Sydney Writers’ Festival at Bowral Library!

In a dying town, Ro Crowley waits for her son on the evening of his 21st birthday. But Sam never comes home. His footprints in the dust of three abandoned houses offer the only clue to his final movements. One set in. One set out. Five years later, Ro returns to Carralon Ridge for the annual memorial of Sam's disappearance. The skeletal community is now an echo of itself, having fractured under the pressure of the coal mine operating on its outskirts. But Ro still wants answers. Only a few people remain. If the truth is to be found in that town, does it lie among them?

Be the first to hear master of outback-noir Jane Harper unpack the twists and turns of her latest novel, Last One Out. In conversation with Michaela Kalowski.

Jane Harper:

Jane Harper is the author of the international bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors and Exiles. Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide, and The Dry and Force of Nature have been adapted into major motion pictures starring Eric Bana. The Survivors has been adapted into a Netflix TV series.

Jane has won numerous top awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year, the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel and the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year. Jane worked as a print journalist for 13 years both in Australia and the UK, and now lives in Melbourne with her husband, two children and two cats.

Michaela Kalowski:

Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Tim Winton and Stan Grant. She is the curator of Big Weekend of Books, ABC Radio National's on-air writers' festival. She produces and hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club. Michaela has conducted radio interviews and presented programs across ABC radio and TV. She's co-presenter and co-writer of a two-part podcast for ABC Radio National, tracing part of her family's history, called Laya's Way Home.

Place: Henrietta Rose Room, Bowral Library
Date: Thursday 16 October
Time: 6PM
Bookings: are essential and can be made here. This is a free event.