In Conversation with Shannon Kelly-White
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Shannon Kelly-White has entertained us with ‘Shannon’s Kitchen’ and has now launched herself as an electrifying new voice in fiction.Join us for an evening with Shannon to celebrate ‘Billie King’ - a blisteringly fast, fresh, funny and hugely entertaining novel of mothers, their children, and one gutsy wild colonial girl who gets caught up in Australia’s last female bushranger’s quest for revenge.
Shannon will be in conversation with Renee Price.
ABOUT 'BILLIE KING'
1918: Australia's last bushranger, Dulcie James, holds up Anna King's falling-down farmhouse. There's a scrawny unloved infant on the floor, Anna seems more furious than frightened, and it's the bushranger who's left shaken. And the next day, Anna disappears.
Twelve years later, Anna's daughter, Billie King, is a girl ready to explode. With a missing mother, the rent in arrears and her alcoholic father's gambling debts to cover, she has no time for school. But when child services threaten to remove Billie from her father, she must decide between continuing her search for her missing mother and keeping what's left of her family together. If she fails to hold onto her father, she'll be taken away and placed in a children's home, but if she doesn't find her missing mother, who will?
ABOUT 'SHANNON KELLY-WHITE'
The internet has plenty to answer for, and Shannon’s writing career is one of them.
Many moons ago, during maternity leave, she created Shannon’s Kitchen—a slightly unhinged corner of the internet that developed something of a cult following. Part food, part storytelling, part “did she really just say that?”, it laid the foundation for four non-fiction books and three Gourmand Awards, including Best Writing.
But fiction was always the dream.
Inspired by freedom, spirit, and women who push back, Shannon finally pulled her finger out and got on with it.
Her debut novel, Billie King, will be published by HarperCollins on 30 June 2026, with a second novel already in the works for 2028.
Date
Thursday 16 July 2026 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM (UTC+10)Location
Old Colonists Club, Ballarat (upstairs from Collins Books on Lydiard)
16 Lydiard St North, Ballarat Vic 3350
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In Conversation with Shannon Kelly-White
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