Don't miss this exciting opportunity to hear author Ros Thomas discuss her fiction debut How to Shame the Devil, a novella set in Perth which follows the life of Art Lambkin, a thorny resident of a nursing home who engages in a correspondent's war on the Letters Page of his daily newspaper to validate his relevance. His predictable daily life is thrown into a tailspin when a woman from his past surfaces and threatens to destroy everything--and everyone--he knows.

The event will be introduced by Mayor of Nedlands, Fiona Argyle. Ros will discuss the book's themes of sexual consent, dignity in aged care and the unreliability of memory. She will also speak about the process of writing, getting published by a local press, and how the discipline of writing short-form stories (flash and microfiction in particular) has shaped her longer work.

For many years, Ros wrote a weekly column for The West Australian which garnered her a wide, devoted readership. A collection of her columns Was it Something I Said? was published by UWA Publishing in 2014. Her flash fiction has won and been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the UK Staunch Prize in 2021, and published in Twice Not Shy: One hundred short short stories by Night Parrot Press. How to Shame the Devil is her first novel.