A farewell to the festival and a drive back to Perth. Tomorrow we get on the Indian Pacific to arrive in Sydney in time for their writers festival. As it will be three days of no bookshops we snuck an extra one in – though they didn’t have our book (& alas not the Natalie King series) but they did have a crime novel from a favourite author (Mo Hayder) who died in 2021 & I thought there would be no more but this final one has just come out so I’ll read on the train when I need a break from editing!