Books at the Bowlo: EVENT OVER
Presented in collaboration with Club Lambton.
Calling All Booklovers!
What to expect:
- 6 pm – 7 pm: Host your regular book club or simply catch up with friends over a meal while chatting about your latest read.
- 7 pm – 8.30 pm: A conversation and Q&A with local authors. We talk about their books, inspirations and literary journey. Hosted by Nina Cullen and Katherine McLean.
Event Details
Cost
Entry is free! Lucky door prizes with every meal purchase.
Bookings
Book ahead to secure your table! Call Club Lambton on 02 4957 3272 or book online here.
Walk-ins also welcome.
Preorder The Book
Copies of the monthly featured book can be ordered via Betty Loves Books! This book will be available for collection at the event, as well as prior to the event.
Preorder here and receive a 15% discount.
Coming Up — Tuesday 11 March
Lee Christine — Glenrock
After Justice Maurice Tempest dies in the Glenrock State Conservation Area in Newcastle, local detective Senior Sergeant Callan O’Connor is urgently called to the scene. Days later a second body is found in the same location, turning what had looked like a revenge killing into so much more. Former political journalist Angela Avery has been spending a lot of time at the Hunter Valley prison interviewing a soon-to-be-released forger, and when O’Connor’s investigation reveals an interest in him Angela is determined to protect both her source and her fledgling relationship with O’Connor. Meanwhile, two young female lawyers from a law firm in Sydney have disappeared. Are the missing lawyers linked to the dead judge? Can O’Connor unravel the connections before the body count rises further? And how much does Angela Avery really know?
Lee Christine
Lee is the author of four crime novels with romantic elements published with Allen and Unwin.
Lee’s best-selling Snowy Mountains series Charlotte Pass, Crackenback and Dead Horse Gap were published in 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively. Charlotte Pass won the Australian Romance Readers Association award for Favourite Romantic Suspense in 2020. Lee’s latest crime novel Glenrock, published in 2024, is set in Lee’s hometown of Newcastle.
Prior to her shift into crime writing, Lee wrote six romantic suspense novels, five which were published with Harlequin Australia’s Escape Publishing and Mira imprints, and one which was self-published. Her debut novel, In Safe Hands, was chosen as a launch title for Escape Publishing in 2012. Three of her novels, A Dangerous Arrangement, Charlotte Pass and Crackenback, were finalists in the Romance Writer’s of Australia Ruby Award.
The abridged version of both Charlotte Pass and Crackenback were published by Reader’s Digest Select Digest.
Lee loves connecting with her readers and has appeared at the Newcastle Writer’s Festival, Lake Macquarie Libraries Write Here! Festival, and the Mount Beauty Writer’s Festival numerous times. Lee is a popular guest speaker at libraries, Probus Clubs, and book clubs. She has also appeared on many podcasts and been a guest speaker at major fundraisers such as Friends of Newcastle University’s Lunch with a Writer, the Ionian Women’s Lunch and the Mark Hughes Brain Cancer Foundation.
Lee has two grown children and lives in Newcastle with her husband and her Irish Wheaten Terrier, Honey.
Co-Hosts
Nina Cullen
Nina Cullen is a Newcastle writer and reader. Her prize-winning writing has appeared in Australia and overseas in publications including Australian Book Review, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, Meniscus, Island, Sleepers Almanac, Taste – Fresh New Writing, Imagining Ourselves, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Guardian. She is also part of the Newcastle Writer’s Festival Story Hunter program, taking creative writing into primary schools in the Newcastle/Hunter region. You can read her monthly Bedside Bookstack reviews at ninacullen.com and say hi on both Instagram and X at @ninakcullen.
Katherine McLean
Katherine is the Director of Hunter Writer’s Centre. Katherine has over 20 year’s experience in leadership positions in arts and non-profit organisations, working across artistic disciplines such as theatre, puppetry, community cultural development, and digital storytelling. She has a great love for story and often spells it with a capital ‘S’ to give it the importance it deserves.