Paranoia, Mania and Monsters in the Soviet Union

Malcolm Knox has written for The Sydney Morning Herald since 1994 and has won three Walkleys and a Human Rights Award. His novels include Summerland; A Private Man, winner of the Ned Kelly Award; Jamaica, which won the Colin Roderick Award and was shortlisted in the 2008 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards; and his latest work, black comedy The First Freind. His many non-fiction titles include Boom: The Underground History of Australia and Bradman’s War. 

Sue Turnbull is Senior Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. Her publications include Media Audiences (2020), The TV Crime Drama (2014) and Media and Communications in Australia (2023) with co-editor Bridget Griffen-Foley. Sue is also the chief crime fiction reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and Chair of the Bad Sydney Crime Writers Festival