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The Criminal Underworld – at your libraryUnderworld killings are not things you’d normally expect to hear about in your local library. But visiting authors GRAHAM REILLY and JOHN SILVESTER are set to break a few rules when they visit Latrobe City Library Service this month. By Latrobe City Council - 10th June 2005 - Back to News In a series of ‘meet the author’ sessions on June 16 and 17, the authors will visit Moe, Morwell and Traralgon Libraries. They will also present a special Literary Dinner on the topic ‘Underworld Fact and Fiction’, at Cedar Lodge in Morwell.
Graham Reilly emigrated from Glasgow to Melbourne with his family when he was 13. For the last 20 years he has worked as a journalist, mostly with The Age. Graham wrote his first two novels while living in Vietnam: Saigon Tea, a comedic tale that crosses from Glasgow to Melbourne to Saigon and back again; and Sweet Time – a humorous exploration of Melbourne in the late 1960s, when soccer challenged the dominant sport of Aussie Rules. In Graham’s latest novel, the hilarious Five Oranges, some of the characters from Saigon Tea return to brave the Vietnamese underworld.
John Silvester is a Walkley award-winning journalist, a senior crime reporter with The Age and the presenter of Radio 3AW’s ‘Sly of the Underworld’ – a weekly segment about police and crime issues. John has published more than 20 crime books, including the popular Underbelly series. Chopper Read wrote to John from prison in 1990, and some 300 letters later John co-edited the letters into the phenomenally successful Chopper series. John’s latest book is Leadbelly: Inside Australia’s Underworld Wars.
For more information on these free talks call Moe Library on 5135 8350.To book the literary dinner call Traralgon library on 5176 3630.
The authors’ visit to Latrobe is part of the State Library’s Writers on the Road program, now in its fifth year, which takes contemporary Australian writers and writing to public libraries throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria.
For author photos or for information about the visit to Latrobe, contact: Noeline Grayden- ) 5176 3630
To interview the authors or for details about WRITERS ON THE ROAD: Rochelle Jackson, State Library of Victoria - ) 8664 7263
Source: www.gippsland.com Published by: news@gippsland.com
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