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Policewoman Kate Cocks Turned Fiction
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Sun 26 Oct 10:30 AM
Level 4 | National Library of Australia
Wheelchair
General Admission
60 Mins
October
Readers loved discovering pioneering policewoman Kate Cocks, a real-life detective working in early 1900s Adelaide, in The Death of Dora Black. Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks, unmarried, aged 40, became the first policewoman in the British Empire to hold the same salary and have the same powers of arrest as her male colleagues. Now author Lainie Anderson brings Kate Cocks back, in the recently released Murder on North Terrace. Cocks' real history of forcing abusive husbands to their knees to repent and busting out jujitsu moves on baddies, merges seamlessly into taut crime fiction in Lainie Anderson's world. Adelaide has never been this tense or exciting! Lainie is in conversation with Susan Wyndham, writer, journalist and former literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
Lainie Anderson scored her first newsroom job by listing her hobbies as beer and pasta. Her 35-year journalism career included stints at Melbourne’s Herald Sun, London’s The Times, and 17 years as a columnist with Adelaide's Sunday Mail. Lainie’s PhD with the University of South Australia studied the life of pioneering policewoman Kate Cocks and inspired her Petticoat Police mysteries, The Death of Dora Black and Murder on North Terrace. Lainie lives in the Adelaide Hills with her husband Max and their dog Pepper. The Death of Dora Black was longlisted in the 2025 Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction.
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Lainie Anderson scored her first newsroom job by listing her hobbies as beer and pasta. Her 35-year journalism career included stints at Melbourne’s Herald Sun, London’s The Times, and 17 years as a columnist with Adelaide's Sunday Mail. Lainie’s PhD with the University of South Australia studied the life of pioneering policewoman Kate Cocks and inspired her Petticoat Police mysteries, The Death of Dora Black and Murder on North Terrace. Lainie lives in the Adelaide Hills with her husband Max and their dog Pepper. The Death of Dora Black was longlisted in the 2025 Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction.
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Concession Tickets apply for children under the age of 16, full-time students, Commonwealth Health Care Card holders, Commonwealth Seniors Card Holders and Commonwealth Pensioner Concession Card holders. Please have your eligible card with you at the venue.