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Jessy Wu will be in conversation with Jasper Lindell on her debut novel, Good Intentions, which announces a compelling new voice in Australian fiction.

The biggest story was always the one between them. In the cramped basement office of their university newspaper, Jake and Nadia break a huge story that exposes a decade of institutional corruption. In the quieter hours, they also fall in love. Then Nadia leaves. A decade later, she returns from New York, once a fast-rising finance hotshot, now exiled after a deal gone wrong. Back in Sydney, Jake has forged a reputation as a crusading reporter whose by-line regularly brings down the rich and powerful.

Battlelines are drawn when they're each pulled into the orbit of a biotech visionary whose startup becomes Nadia's big break and the target of Jake's latest investigation. As old wounds flare, both must decide how far they'll go to come out on top. Clear-eyed and taut, Good Intentions asks if it is possible to be a good person in a morally grey world, where complicity is necessary for survival.

What starts as a campus love story catches fire and blazes into a full-scale reckoning of corporate greed. A coming-of-age story for the late capitalist hellscape. Set it for your book club and watch the sparks fly.' - Bri Lee, 

'Relentless reading, I couldn't put it down. Evocatively penned and a clever exploration of the cost of speaking truth to power. This is an arrival Australian fiction has waited too long for.' - Antoinette Lattouf,

Jessy Wu is a writer and entrepreneur based in Sydney. She is the founder and Managing Director of Encour, a strategic communications agency that specialises in the tech sector. Previously, she was a venture capital investor in early-stage tech start-ups. She is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review, and her writing has appeared in Forbes, Crikey, Sydney Morning Herald, and Inflection Points. She co-hosts the Gen Z Explained podcast with Danny Cash. She holds degrees in Philosophy and English Literature from the Australian National University.

ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵlogo political science graduate and former editor of the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵlogo student newspaper Woroni, Jasper Lindell was a student colleague of Jessy Wu. He joined the Canberra Times in 2018 and is currently an ACT Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine.

The vote of thanks will be given by award-winning Australian author Karen Viggers

Books will be available for signing from 5.30pm and again after the event. 

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