Rendezvous with Di Morrissey
23/10/2009 11:25:00 AM
Meet and hear the ever popular Di Morrissey at our next Readers' rendezvous at Broadbeach Branch Library as she discusses her newest release, The Silent Country.
Broadbeach Branch Library
Wednesday 11 November
7.30pm
To book, phone (07) 5581 1555 or email brolibrary@goldcoast.qld.gov.au.
About Di Morrissey
Di Morrissey is one of the most successful writers Australia has ever produced, and with sixteen consecutive bestsellers to her name, she shows no sign of slowing down.
Di has had a varied career: she trained as a journalist with Australian Consolidated Press and became Women's Editor for The Daily Mail Group in London before working as a creative copywriter for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising. She had her own television program in the United States on CBS and was a regular presenter on Network 10 Australia. In addition to radio broadcasting, she has written for TV, film and theatre.
Di's first novel, Heart of the Dreaming, was published in 1991. Her other novels are
- The Islands
- Monsoon
- The Valley
- The Reef
- Barra Creek
- Kimberley Sun
- The Bay
- Blaze
- Scatter the Stars
- The Songmaster
- When the Singing Stops
- Tears of the Moon
- The Last Mile Home
- Follow the Morning Star
- The Last Rose of Summer
Each book has out sold the last and all have been bestsellers. Di's seventeenth novel, The Silent Country, will be released in November 2009.
Di divides her time between Byron Bay and the Manning Valley in NSW.
About The Silent Country
The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out 50 years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy. Of the group, led by the eccentric Maxim Topov, few are still alive and they are reluctant to talk about the intriguing events. It is through the help of local NT Park Ranger, Jamie McIntosh, that Veronica begins to piece together the puzzle and discover the answers. These answers break the silence and change her life.
