2026 Festival

Speaker Profile

Jock Serong

Jock Serong is the author of seven novels and the winner of several awards, including the ARA Historical Novel Prize, the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction and Britain’s Staunch Prize, which is given to thrillers where no women are victims of violence. He is a former solicitor.  

Drinks With The Crime Writers

Thursday April 23
Hotel Sorrento (Cooper Room)
4.30pm / 60 mins

Tim Ayliffe, Paul Daley, Chris Hammer and Laura McCluskey with Jock Serong  

Over a glass of wine Tim Ayliffe, Chris Hammer and Laura McCluskey will chat murder, mayhem, maniacs, cosy crime and flawed detectives with award-winning writer (and fellow crime specialist) Jock Serong.

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Edge Of My Seat... Creating suspense and surprise in modern fiction

Friday April 24
Ellen Grant Hall
12.00pm / 60 mins

Laura McCluskey, Jock Serong and Anna Snoekstra with Charlotte Guest

How do writers create page-turning suspense for their readers?  And how difficult is it to create tension around The Big Reveal?  


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My Tassie: Writer reflections on the Apple Isle

Friday April 24
Sorrento Bowls Club
1.30pm / 60 mins

Rebecca Armitage, Erin Hortle and Heather Rose with Jock Serong

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Under The Skin: How biographers cope with living someone else’s life

Saturday April 25
Sorrento Bowls Club
1.00pm / 60 mins

Peter FitzSimons, Jock Serong and Helen Trinca with Michael Cathcart

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Seas, Rivers And Oceans: A love letter

Saturday April 25
The Ballroom, The Continental
4.00pm / 60 mins

Lola Broomhall, Chris Hammer, Sarah Hamylton and Jock Serong with Fiona Gruber

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