‘For readers of Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.’

– Books+Publishing

2026 Events (most events are free but bookings are required)

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

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. FILLING FAST. 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

Words After Dark, Antipodes Bookshop and Gallery, Wednesday 17 June 6pm https://antipodes-bookshop-and-gallery-pty-ltd.square.site/product/words-after-dark-with-christine-balint/L6Z54B3Y3FAWCJD3OFXSKFPO?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=P6QVR3ZGRWNVS2633E3ICJ37

Author Talk: Friday 17 July, Mornington Library

Author in Residence: Collins on Lydiard, Ballarat, Saturday 25 July 11-1pm

Port Fairy Literary Weekend, 11-13 September

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.