L.A. Larkin, author of environmental thriller The Genesis Flaw, will be in discussion with Sisters In Crime founder, Carmel Shute, on the topic of The Rise Of The Environmental Thriller. L.A. Larkin works for a climate change consultancy.

L.A. Larkin’s debut thriller, The Genesis Flaw, has received great reviews, including in The Age, and has featured on Channel 7’s Today Tonight program. She and Carmel Shute will discuss the depiction of environmental themes by fiction authors over the last 20 years, moving through John Grisham’s The Pelican Brief and Michael Crichton’s State of Fear, through to more recent novels such as Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake / Year of The Flood and Ian McEwan’s Solar. They will ask if the rise of the environmental thriller marks a change in focus in the general population, and they will discuss the research done to ensure the fiction rings true. A timely debate, considering how Melbourne voted in the recent Federal Election.”

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