Book Launch: Revelation Beach by Susan Francis 🗓️ Wednesday, 22 October ⏰ 6pm - 7pm AEDT 📍 The Book Cow Kingston ACT Join us in store at The Book Cow for the launch of Susan's second novel 'Revelation Beach', an evocative Australian thriller exposing the Balibo Five cover-up and a decades old conspiracy about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor. Susan Francis spent a year in Indonesia in 1980, where she experienced conversations shutting down when she walked into social settings and witnessed chunks of articles in the newspapers blacked out by the censor’s heavy hand as ongoing resistance by the Timorese filled the media. This led her to years of researching this bloody history. In Revelation Beach, Susan intricately weaves fact with fiction to highlight our crucial relationship with our northern neighbours and the devastation when we chose to look away from genocide. With the fiftieth anniversary of the journalists’ deaths in October 2025, Revelation Beach showcases one of the greatest government cover-ups in Australian history. Event is free. Register via Humanitix. @thebookcowkingston @susanfranciswriter #revelationbeach #susanfrancis #thebookcow #whatsoncanberra #booklaunch #authorevents #wilddingopress #balibofive #thriller #novel #australianstories #fiction

Our latest newsletter has landed ✉️ — this month we’re featuring Revelation Beach by @susanfranciswriter, out in October. A literary page-turner for thriller lovers, Revelation Beach blends fact and fiction around the Balibo Five and the invasion of East Timor. Through Eleanor, an interpreter confronting long-buried truths, the story examines loyalty, loss, and Australia’s silence. 📖 Take a look inside now via Book2Look on our website and start reading today. Pre-order from your bookseller of choice — and don’t forget to ask your library or book club to order it in. Visit our shop 👉 link in bio. #RevelationBeach #SusanFrancis #WildDingoPress #AustralianBooks #AustralianLiterature #LiteraryThriller #Bookstagram #BaliboFive #EastTimor #NewRelease #PreOrderNow #book2look

We've been soo busy, we've only just gotten around to looking at photos you've sent to us from National Science Week and Children's Book Week. Thank you. Here are some photos from UNSW's Science in the Swamp where lots of kids received copies of our fabulous Aussie STEM Stars series. Thanks to Nouha for the photos. It looked like a wonderful day! #aussiestemstars #middlegrade #middlegradebooks #nonfiction #sciencestoriesforkids #biographies #wilddingopress #scienceintheswamp

Revelation Beach is more than a novel — it’s a story about truth, loss, and the power of bearing witness. We asked Susan Francis to share her thoughts on writing the book, the legacy of the Balibo Five, and the personal experiences that shaped her characters. Check it out on our blog today. Link to our website in bio. #wilddingopress #revelationbeach #novel #writersoninsta #writersofinstagram #authors #writerslife #writingcommunity #thriller #mystery #fiction #novel #australianauthors #booklover #wilddingopress @susanfranciswriter

'This heartfelt, finely wrought tribute to a community builder of extraordinary compassion and capacity comes at a time when it seems almost impossible to see past the raging pain and anger fracturing communities in Australia and the devastating bleakness of events unfolding in Gaza.' Great to see Katia Ariel's 'Ferryman' reviewed in the Australian Book Review. Subscribers can read via our link in bio. #ferryman #ferrymanbook #katiaariel #wilddingopress #australianbookreview #bookreview #biography #australianbooks #indiepublishers #smallpress #bookreviews #abr #nonfiction #goodreads #readnow

Revelation Beach dares to expose one of Australia’s most shameful cover-ups, where lives were sacrificed for oil, gas and political expediency. At once a literary page-turner and a powerful reckoning, this novel asks the question: How far would you go to uncover the truth? PRE-ORDER NOW. #wilddingopress #revelationbeach #susanfrancis #literarythriller #australianfiction #politicalthriller #easttimor #balibofive #aussiereads #historicalfiction #womenwriters #australianauthor @susanfranciswriter

"So much ground is covered in this book, from the power of ritual in times of grief, the importance of community, of seeing everyone with empathy, about how connected we all are to one another, about the nature of time with all of its strange contradictions, and means to be alive in the face of our inevitable mortality. Ferryman is an exquisite story told with deep sensitivity. In creating such a mercurial, exquisitely wrought and tender portrait, Katia Ariel has given us all a gift." Thank you Magdalena Ball for your thoughtful review of 'Ferryman' for Compulsive Reader. @katia_deer #ferryman #ferrymanbook #katiaariel #bookreview #compulsivereader #bookrecommendations #wilddingopress #biography #nonfiction #goodreads #mustreads