Join screenwriter and author Christian White in conversation with James McKenzie Watson to discuss his darkest and most exhilarating novel yet, The Long Night.

Sunday 2 November, 2.30pm at Manly Library

Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother but when a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world.

Jodie has been trying to forget her troubling past, pouring her trauma into her work and out of her mind. Until one night her daughter is kidnapped and Jodie is dragged back into the violence.

As Em and Jodie race into the darkness, the agony of the past rushes up to meet them. It will take all their devotion and courage to escape this night alive.

Wildly propulsive and cinematically intense, The Long Night explores the unsettling idea that even those we trust the most may be hiding dangerous secrets.

Books will be available for purchase and signing on the day.

Non-alcoholic refreshments and nibbles on arrival.

Enquiries: 8495 5028 or libraryprograms@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au

Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child, was one of Australia’s bestselling debut novels ever, with rights sold in 17 international territories and a major screen deal. Christian’s second book, The Wife and the Widow, and third, Wild Place, were instant bestsellers. The Ledge was named QBD Book of the Year and shortlisted for the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award. Christian wrote the Audible Original Second Skin and co-authored three more with Summer DeRoche: Still House, The Call, and Unfollowed. Christian's credits include feature film Relic, Netflix series Clickbait and Paramount’s Apartment 7A. He also wrote for the Amazon series Deadloch and the Netflix/TAP series The Survivors.

James McKenzie Watson writes fiction with a focus on health and rural Australia. His novel Denizen won the 2021 Penguin Literary Prize and was published by Penguin Random House in 2022. Denizen also received a 2021 Varuna Residential Fellowship and a 2021 KSP Residential Fellowship. James has written for The Guardian, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings and the Newtown Review of Books. He has appeared at events including the Sydney Writers' Festival, Newcastle Writers Festival and BAD Crime Sydney. James co-hosts a podcast with fellow author Ashley Kalagian Blunt, James and Ashley Stay at Home, about writing, creativity and health.