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Geoff Parkes for Bathurst Library

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Event

Geoff Parkes for Bathurst Library


Time & date

11:00am - 12:30pm, 13th February 2026


Location

Bathurst Library View map

70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW 2795


Tickets

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About

Hear Geoff in conversation at the library for his brand-new book!

The First Law of the Bush is Geoff Parkes’ new rural noir set in New Zealand’s rugged King Country.

A year after Bill Dickerson fell to his death on a worksite, his widow has received no explanation about what happened.

She hires Ryan Bradley, who has just returned to the remote town of Nashville as a lawyer, to get answers. Was it suicide? An accident? Or murder? In small towns, nothing is quite what it seems.

About the author

Born and raised in rural New Zealand, Geoff Parkes has written a weekly opinion column for The Roar, Australia’s leading on-line sports website for 12 years. He is the author of two crime novels.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing on the day.

Book

The First Law of the Bush
Set in the 1990s in New Zealand’s King Country, The First Law of the Bush is the scintillating new rural noir from the author of When The Deep, Dark Bush Swallows You Whole.
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