Join us for an evening with Shannon Kelly-White and Casey Nott as they discuss their new novels Billie King and Five Stages of Grace.
When: Friday September 11th at 6.30pm
Where: Meeniyan Town Hall
Cost: Ticket Only $15
Ticket & Book $45 (Your choice of book above)
Supper and Tea/Coffee provided with a chance to meet the authors and have your books signed following the event!
More about our visiting authors:
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, was published by HarperCollins on 30 June 2026, with a second novel already in the works for 2028.
Billie King by Shannon Kelly-White
Published June 30, 2026
A blisteringly fast, fresh, funny and hugely entertaining novel of mothers, daughters and one gutsy wild colonial girl who gets caught up in Australia's last female bushranger's quest for revenge. Think Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife meets Trent Dalton.
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?
- - - - -
Casey Nott is a contemporary fiction author.
Her stories celebrate women and explore the challenges they face in modern society.
Her debut novel, Forgotten, was long listed in the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Competition and was released in October 2024, with Hawkeye Publishing.
When she’s not writing (or reading) she enjoys keeping active by practicing yoga and playing pickle ball. She is happiest when she’s creating and making things.
She lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children, of whom she’s quite fond.
Five Stages of Grace by Casey Nott
Published May 1, 2026
Told through the five stages of grief - Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance - Grace's journey is raw, heart-wrenching, and unexpectedly hopeful. As she navigates invasive treatments, an overbearing mother, busy friends, and a husband who feels further away with each passing day, Grace must decide: will she fight for the life she's losing, or learn to embrace the one she still has?