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Perth Writers Festival 2011Random House Authors for Interview

Gregory Day, THE GRAND HOTEL (2010):Following on from the critically acclaimed success of Gregory Day’sprevious novels, THE GRAND HOTEL is a tour de force featuring

an unforgettable cast of characters, and a profoundly entertainingquest into the heart of a twenty-first century Australian hotel with adifference.Gregory Day is a writer, poet and musician whose debut novel, THEPATRON SAINT OF EELS won the prestigious Australian LiteratureSociety Gold Medal in 2006. His second novel, RON McCOY’S SEAOF DIAMONDS was shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premier’s Prize

for Fiction. He lives with his family on the south-west coast of Victoria.Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]

Sophie Gee, THE SCANDAL OF THE SEASON (2007):

Dangerous liaisons in a time of Jacobite plots and Popish fears, atime when marriage was a market and sex, a temptation fraughtwith dangers. A brilliant, witty, erotic modern love story set in 1711.Sophie Gee was born in Sydney and graduated from the Universityof Sydney in 1995 with a first-class honours degree in English. Shewrote her honours thesis on Evelyn Waugh, and also did half a lawdegree, until her father, a lawyer, encouraged her to drop out. Shewon a scholarship to Harvard, where she studied the underbelly of18th-century London and received a PhD in 2002. She wasappointed assistant professor to the English department atPrinceton.Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]

Leah Giarratano, WATCH THE WORLD BURN (2010):Another chilling white knuckle ride from best selling author, LeahGiarratano, featuring the much loved Detective Sergeant JillJackson.Dr Leah Giarratano has had a long career as a clinical psychologist.Leah is an expert in psychological trauma, sex offences andpsychopathology and has had many years assessing psychopathsand treating their victims. She has worked in psychiatric hospitals,with the defence force, and in the corrections system with offenderswho suffer severe personality disorders. She has assessed andtreated survivors of just about every imaginable psychological

trauma, including: hostages; war veterans; rape, assault andaccident victims; and has worked with police, fire and ambulance officers. In 2009 Leahbegan her television career, presenting Channel 7’s top rating Beyond the Darklands program, on which Leah was the expert psychologist who delved into the psyche ofAustralia’s most fearsome criminals.Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]



Lev Grossman, THE MAGICIANS (2009):Lev Grossman is a novelist and Time magazine's book critic. Agraduate of Harvard and Yale, he has written articles for the New York Times , Salon , Entertainment Weekly , Time Out New York and the Village Voice . He lives in Brooklyn and is the husband ofnovelist Sophie Gee.

Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]

Joanne Harris, BLUEEYEDBOY (2010):BLUEEYEDBOY is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: adark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctionalfamily, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not whohe seems. Told through posts on a web journal calledbadguysrock, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all themultiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered

by playing out a life on the internet.JOANNE HARRIS is the author of the Whitbread-shortlisted

CHOCOLAT (made into a major film starring Juliette Binoche), BLACKBERRY WINE,FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE, COASTLINERS, HOLY FOOLS, JIGS & REELS,SLEEP, PALE SISTER, GENTLEMEN & PLAYERS and, with Fran Warde, THEFRENCH KITCHEN: A COOKBOOK and THE FRENCH MARKET: MORE RECIPESFROM A FRENCH KITCHEN. Joanne lives in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]

Gail Jones, FIVE BELLS (2011):Gail Jones is the author of two short-story collections, a critical

monograph, and the novels BLACK MIRROR, SIXTY LIGHTS,DREAMS OF SPEAKING and SORRY. Three times shortlisted for theMiles Franklin Award, her prizes include the WA Premier's Award forFiction, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the AgeBook of the Year Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Fiction andthe ASAL Gold Medal.Told over the course of a single Saturday, Five Bells describes fourlives which chime and resonate, sharing mysterious patterns andsymbols. But it is a fifth person, a child, whose presence at the Quay

haunts the day and who will overshadow everything that unfolds. By night-time, whenSydney is drenched in a rainstorm, each life has been transformed.Contact: Judy Jamieson-Green on [email protected]

Richard Lloyd Parry, PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS (2011):PEOPLE WHO EAT DARKNESS is, by turns, a non-fiction thriller, acourtroom drama and the biography of both a victim and a killer. It isthe story of a young British woman who fell prey to unspeakable evil,and of a loving family torn apart by grief.It is an insight into the case surrounding the disappearance of Perthwoman, Carita Ridgeway, in Tokyo. And it is a fascinatinginvestigation into one of the world’s most baffling and mysterioussocieties, a light shone into dark corners of Japan that the rest of theworld has never glimpsed before.Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia editor of The Times , based in Tokyo. He

is the author of one previous book, IN THE TIME OF MADNESS, about Indonesia.Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]



Armistead Maupin, MARY ANN IN AUTUMN (2010);Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C. but was broughtup in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1976 he launched his dailynewspaper serial, Tales of the City, in the San Francisco Chronicle.

The first fiction to appear in an American daily for decades, Talesgrew into an international sensation when compiled and rewritten asnovels. Maupin's eight-volume Tales of the City sequence - Tales ofthe City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City,Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Livesand his newest book MARY ANN IN AUTUMN - are now multi-

million bestsellers published in eleven languages. He lives in San Francisco, California. In MARY ANN IN AUTUMN, Mary Ann returns to San Francisco, and into the arms of heroldest friend Michael ‘Mouse’ Tolliver.Contact: Kate Mayor on [email protected]

Roger McDonald, WHEN COLTS RAN (2010):In this sweeping epic of friendship, toil, hope and failedpromise, multi-award-winning author Roger McDonaldfollows the story of Kingsley Colts as he chases the ghostof himself through the decades, and in and out of the livesand affections of the citizens of 'The Isabel', a slice ofAustralia scattered with prospectors, artists, no-hopers andvisionaries. Against this spacious backdrop of sheep

stations, timeless landscapes and the Five Alls pub, men play out their fates, conducttheir rivalries and hope for the best. Roger McDonald’s first novel was 1915, a novel of Gallipoli, winner of the Age Book ofthe Year, and made into a highly successful eight-part ABC-TV mini-series (now on

DVD). Slipstream, Rough Wallaby, Water Man and The Slap followed, each of thesenovels drawing intensively on imaginative, poetic takes on rural living. His bestsellingnovel Mr Darwin's Shooter, was awarded the New South Wales, Victorian, and SouthAustralian Premiers' Literary Awards, and the National Fiction Award at the 2000Adelaide Writers' Week. The Ballad of Desmond Kale won the 2006 Miles Franklin Awardand South Australian Festival Prize for Fiction. A long story that became part of WhenColts Ran was awarded the O. Henry Prize (USA) in 2008.Contact: Judy Jamieson-Green on [email protected]

Caroline Overington, I CAME TO SAY GOODBYE (2010):I CAME TO SAY GOODBYE is an utterly gripping novel from thebestselling author of GHOST CHILD. Mental health, child protection,

immigration and above all, family drama – this book doesn’t shy awayfrom the big issues.Caroline Overington is a two-time Walkley Award-winning journalistwho is currently a senior writer and columnist with The Australian .She is the author of two non-fiction books, ONLY IN NEW YORK andKICKBACK which is about the UN oil-for-food scandal in Iraq.Contact: Alysha Farry on [email protected]

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