Meet the Author: Sharon Kernot

Name: Meet the Author: Sharon Kernot
Start: 2026-06-04T18:30:00+09:30
End: 2026-06-04T18:30:00+09:30
Location: Matilda Bookshop

It is our pleasure to present Meet the Author: Sharon Kernot for the launch of her stunning thriller novel in verse, Night Swimming. Sharon is an Adelaide Hills author of formidable talent and firm friend of the bookshop, and she will be in conversation with our very own, Kasey Chambers on Thursday June 4th at 630pm in the cosy and beautiful Matilda Bookshop. This promises to be an electric conversation about memory, desire, verse, form, and suspense. Please join us.

Night Swimming is a riveting psychological thriller that catapults the reader into the mind of a deeply tormented and vulnerable protagonist, blurring the boundaries between victim and aggressor with shocking effect. January Clare Colson is longing for sleep, for release from the wakefulness that is consuming her. She’s haunted by the tragic drowning of her best friend years ago when she and Julie were rebellious teens. She’s a mess of pills and broken promises. She’s swimming in desperation.Then he walks back into her life, changed but the same, and the events of long ago take a new grip on her. She needs to know what happened. She needs to know him. To call him to account. But her strategy is dangerous, obsessive, warped by insomnia and the intense power of thwarted desire. January Clare Colson is standing on the brink of destruction.

Sharon Kernot is the author of three novels including two acclaimed YA verse novels, The Art of Taxidermy and Birdy. Her poems and short stories have been published widely in Australia and internationally. Sharon lives in Mount Barker, South Australia.

Tickets are $15 (& include a glass of SC Pannell wine), or you can purchase Ticket + Book $35 (Night Swimming is usually $35rrp on its own). If you choose the Ticket + Book option, your book will be ready for collection on the night. Copies of Night Swimming and Sharon's other titles will also be available on the night.

We very much look forward to seeing you there.