Anna Downes
Anna Downes is the UK-born internationally bestselling author of The Safe Place, The Shadow House and Red River Road. She now lives on the NSW Central Coast with her family.
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Anna Downes
Anna Downes is an actor-turned-author who grew up in Sheffield, UK and now lives on the NSW Central Coast with her family. Her internationally bestselling debut novel, The Safe Place, was published simultaneously in Australia, the US and the UK in 2020, was shortlisted for the 2021 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards and has been optioned by Broadtalk Productions to be a feature film. Her second book, The Shadow House, was published in 2021 in Australia and New Zealand followed by publication in the UK and the USA in 2022. Both have been translated into over ten different languages. Red River Road was published in May 2024 and was an instant bestseller upon release, reaching number five on the national Top Ten across all categories and spending six weeks as the number one Australian fiction title.
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20 Years of Crime: Michael Robotham in Conversation
DATE April 6 TIME 4:00 pm WHEREUniversity of Newcastle NUspace X320 Book nowBY THE ARTIST
