2026 Events

Writers on Campus, Borchardt Library, La Trobe University Bundoora, 12.30pm Tuesday 28 April

Melbourne Launch with Toni Jordan: Friday 1 May at 6pm, Readings Hawthorn https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1547338

Mornington Peninsula Launch with Vikki Petraitis: Friday 8 May at 6pm, Stories by the Sea, Mount Eliza https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1553547

In Conversation with Professor Katy Barnett from Melbourne Law School: Friday 22 May, 6pm, Solidarity Hall Carlton https://www.trybooking.com/DKQHX

About A Single Witness

Preview A Single Witness here.

Pre-order A Single Witness from Spinifex Press here.

Christine Balint’s fourth novel, A Single Witness, is due for release in May 2026. It brings to light a historical trial from the Venetian archives. A Single Witness tells the story of Anna Maria Bonon, a 13-year-old illiterate girl from a mountain village who took her father to trial for sex abuse in Venice in 1757. She won her case.

‘The evocative story of a vulnerable girl who refused to be silenced. Intimate, compelling, and atmospheric.’

– Carrie Tiffany, winner of the Stella Prize for Mateship with Birds

‘A Single Witness is a beautifully crafted yet unflinching probe into an actual crime and its devastating aftermath in 1750s rural Italy.  Told deftly and evocatively by a novelist of great skill, it is a deeply satisfying work of literary art, full of intense, almost hallucinatory detail as it goes straight to the heart of a village’s passions and deceits, and the indomitable spirit of the young woman whose life is torn apart.’

– Garry Disher, prize-winning author of the Hirsch series and many other novels.

Here’s the trailer for A Single Witness.