Your Summer Stories: Author Event - Tim Ayliffe
Friday 30 January 2026
91 days from now
6 - 7pm
1 hour
Tim Ayliffe’s first standalone crime-novel, Dark Desert Road, is one of the top ten must-read titles in this year’s Your Summer Stories campaign. He will sit down with award winning Australian journalist Kylie Morris, to delve into this story about love, betrayal and how the things that often bind us together are also those which can tear us apart.
The story follows twin sisters – Kit, a police officer, and Billie, who lives a life of crime.
The women haven’t spoken in years, when Billie leaves a desperate message asking her sister for help before disappearing in the dustbowl towns of the New South Wales Riverina where a group of violent extremists have set up camp and gone into business with a ruthless bikie gang.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet Tim and hear more about the memorable McCarthy sisters as they traverse the darker fringes of Australian rural society.
Books will be available for purchase through Maclean’s Booksellers and Tim will be signing copies.
Cost: Free
Bookings essential
If you have any access or inclusion needs, you will be able to advise us when booking.
About Tim Ayliffe and Kylie Morris:
Tim Ayliffe is an award-winning author whose thriller novels have been informed by his 25-year global career as a journalist. He writes about crime, espionage, extremism and the global power games at play in the 21st century. He has been the Managing Editor of Television and Video for ABC News and Executive Producer of News Breakfast. He is the author of the John Bailey series including The Greater Good, State of Fear, The Enemy Within, Killer Traitor Spy - which won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Danger Awards -and The Wrong Man. He lives in Sydney.
Kylie Morris is an award-winning Australian journalist and broadcaster. From 2014 to 2019 she was Washington correspondent for Britain’s Channel Four News, and covered among other things, the rise of Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement. She began her career with the ABC and last year returned to Newcastle with her family.
The story follows twin sisters – Kit, a police officer, and Billie, who lives a life of crime.
The women haven’t spoken in years, when Billie leaves a desperate message asking her sister for help before disappearing in the dustbowl towns of the New South Wales Riverina where a group of violent extremists have set up camp and gone into business with a ruthless bikie gang.
Don't miss this opportunity to meet Tim and hear more about the memorable McCarthy sisters as they traverse the darker fringes of Australian rural society.
Books will be available for purchase through Maclean’s Booksellers and Tim will be signing copies.
Cost: Free
Bookings essential
If you have any access or inclusion needs, you will be able to advise us when booking.
About Tim Ayliffe and Kylie Morris:
Tim Ayliffe is an award-winning author whose thriller novels have been informed by his 25-year global career as a journalist. He writes about crime, espionage, extremism and the global power games at play in the 21st century. He has been the Managing Editor of Television and Video for ABC News and Executive Producer of News Breakfast. He is the author of the John Bailey series including The Greater Good, State of Fear, The Enemy Within, Killer Traitor Spy - which won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Danger Awards -and The Wrong Man. He lives in Sydney.
Kylie Morris is an award-winning Australian journalist and broadcaster. From 2014 to 2019 she was Washington correspondent for Britain’s Channel Four News, and covered among other things, the rise of Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement. She began her career with the ABC and last year returned to Newcastle with her family.
