Who will you meet at our Booklovers Festival?

Nick Gadd was born in 1964 and grew up in Yorkshire. He moved to Australia in 1990 and has worked as an ESL teacher, television extra, editor and speechwriter. He also teaches Novel at Box Hill Institute of TAFE.

Ghostlines is his first novel and was the winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2007. It was published by Scribe in 2008 and won the Ned Kelly Award for best first crime novel in 2009.

He lives in the western suburbs of Melbourne with his wife and two daughters.


A little about Ghostlines:

Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist, has stepped on the wrong toes. With his personal life and health deteriorating around him, he is consigned to a suburban newspaper where he writes ‘filler’ local news articles to be slotted in among the real-estate and restaurant advertisements. Sent to cover what appears to be a tragic-yet-routine death at a level crossing, Philip is drawn into a multilayered mystery that involves art theft, political intrigue and business corruption … not to mention murder.

Ghostlines is a cleverly plotted and compelling story of betrayal that is part thriller and part psychological realism.

Booking required: phone Diamond Valley library on 9434 3809, or book online at http://www.yprl.vic.gov.au/

Books by Nick Gadd will be available for sale and signing.

Diamond Valley library

Civic Drive

Greensborough 3088

Wednesday 2 June

7.00pm-8.00pm