Acknowledgement

We respectfully acknowledge that Byron Writers Festival takes place on the traditional lands of the Arakwal Bumberbin Peoples of the Bundjalung Nation. We pay respects to Elders past and present, and acknowledge them as the original storytellers of the lands and waterways of this Country.

Writer

Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist and ghostwriter whose psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages and sold more than 8.5 million copies around the world. He has twice won the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger award for best crime novel, and twice been awarded a Ned Kelly Award for Australia’s best crime novel. The Secrets She Keeps and The Suspect have been turned into major TV series.  

After living and writing all over the world, Robotham settled his family in Sydney, Australia.

Byron Writers Festival '25

Join us from 8—10 August at Bangalow Showground on Bundjalung Country

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