Ray Mooney
Ray is an Australian Author and Lecturer in Creative Writing who specialises in novel, screen and playwriting.
His playwriting focuses on social issues, his film, Everynight Everynight, which he co-wrote with Alkinos Tsilimidos, was nominated for an AFI for best adapted screenplay and won numerous awards around the world.
His crime novel, A Green Light, was Penguin’s second-best fiction seller in 1988 and regarded by many as Australia’s best crime novel; it’s been totally rewritten as three stand-alone eBooks.
He recently co-wrote a non-fiction book, A Pack of Bloody Animals, with John Kerr, about the Walsh Street killings, and his latest non-fiction book, The Ethics of Evil – Stories of H Division, is a scathing historical analysis of the punishment division within Pentridge Prison.
Speaker Events
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The Lure of Crime
Books about crime both real and imagined are so popular it's clear there's an appetite for the genre. Is it… Read More -
The Ethics of Evil
Ray Mooney considers the lives of the worst-of-the-worst lawbreakers, those who were punished in the infamous Pentridge Prison H Division.… Read More -
Another Go
Being young can make you reckless. And it even for the not-so-young, there are things we do, ways we behave,… Read More
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