Michael Wilding the Travel Writer

The Plant novels… are hybrids of satire and crime fiction, too funny to be called bleak, but concealing a complex seriousness of purpose.’
– Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Age, on In the Valley of the Weed

‘[Wilding] dares those among us who are averse to conspiracy theories to wonder whether we have been too sceptical.’
– Peter Pierce

About Michael Wilding

Michael Wilding won the Prime Minister’s Award and the Colin Roderick Award for Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall. He has had a distinguished career as a literary scholar, critic, and editor. Since the 1970s he has earned a reputation as a critic and scholar of Australian literature and from the late 1960s he was one of a group of prominent writers, editors and publishers which promoted the “new writing” movement in Australia. To date he has published more than twenty novels and short story collections. His latest books are the Plant private-eye novels – In the Valley of the Weed, Little Demon and The Travel Writer.

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Michael Wilding — The Travel Writer

Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Venue: Mitchell Theatre

Join Michael Wilding as he discusses his new book, The Travel Writer, the latest installment of his playful mystery and crime fiction series featuring private investigator, Plant.

Liz Lambastier was a successful travel writer. Did she write one last, unpublished book before she died? Plant is hired to find out.

It soon becomes evident he is not the only one looking. What could the missing manuscript contain? Memories of the past to haunt a few people? Revelations of sexual opportunism or – these days – allegations of sexual harassment? Or, conspiracy theorist Fullalove speculates, undercover work in sensitive places?

As Plant investigates, he uncovers a web of sexual opportunism developing into allegations of sexual harassment in the literary and journalistic worlds.

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