Great news! The BBC has acquired the Australian television/streaming production of Scrublands!! I’m very happy about this – and very happy for all the talented people at Easy Tiger who have done so much and so well to bring the novel to the screen. Can’t wait to see it! This is the BBC announcement: “The BBC has acquired new Australian crime drama Scrublands, based on the award-winning novel written by… Read More »BBC to screen Scrublands
The Ned Kelly Awards are Australia’s oldest and most prestigious awards for crime writing – so I’m pretty stoked about The Tilt being shortlisted for the 2023 award for Best Crime Fiction. It’s quite the honour, particularly when you consider how many very fine crime novels are now being published in Australia each year. And I’m in some classy company here: Aoife Clifford (When We Fall), Jane Harper (Exiles), Sally… Read More »Ned Kelly Shortlist
I’m very happy and I’m very honoured – my book The Tilt has won the fiction prize at my home town awards in Canberra – the Marion ACT Notable Book Awards. Thanks very much to Marion – formerly the ACT Writers Centre – for doing so much to support Canberra area writers! A very enjoyable evening down at The Canberra Contemporary Art Space down by the alke. Congrats to all… Read More »Notable Winner
This is a very generous hometown honour – The Tilt being shortlisted for the ACT’s Notable Book Awards 2023. The awards are run by Marion – which is the new moniker for the ACT Writers Centre. Marion provides a great support network and resources for Canberra region authors. I’m particularly pleased to be shortlisted alongside my old mate and journalism colleague Paul Daley and his luminous book, Jesustown.
This is a great compliment – The Tilt is shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards for 2023 in the General Fiction category. I love that the ABIAs have two fiction categories – Literary and General. This allows for recognition of popular books – the ones readers love – that are often excluded from literary awards. I’m very proud of The Tilt and that is in such good company. It… Read More »The Tilt Shortlisted!
It’s official: production is underway on the streaming/television production of Scrublands – and I could not be happy with the cast, the crew and the production company! Filming is taking place in regional Victoria on the four-part series. It’s being made by production company Easy Tiger in association with Vic Screen. Easy Tiger is the company behind such beloved Australian series as Jack Irish (based on Peter Temple’s crime novels)… Read More »Scrublands filming begins!
Publication day!! The hardback of ‘Dead Man’s Creek’ is in UK and European bookstores from January the 5th. And talk about perfect timing – The London Times has named it Crime Book of the Month, together with an extraordinary review from critic Mark Sanderson… “This fantastic crime drama has three timelines: 1943, when Italian prisoners of war are at work in the Barmah-Millewa forest; 1973, when 15-year-old Tessa Waters falls… Read More »Book of the Month
The Tilt has had a wonderful reception since its Australian and New Zealand publication in early October. Huge thanks to all those who have bought and/or read it – thanks so much for all the generous feedback. And thank you to all the booksellers who have gotten behind it – your support is so very much appreciated. Speaking of bookseller support – The Tilt has been longlisted in the Indie… Read More »The Tilt longlisted
Here it is – the cover to the Australian/New Zealand edition of my new crime novel, The Tilt, to be published on October the 5th. It will be published in early January in the UK and elsewhere with a different title: Dead Man’s Creek. I absolutely love this cover. A huge thanks to the designer Luke Causby, who has designed all the Australian books, including the smaller B-format editions. I… Read More »Cover reveal – The Tilt
Wildfire books in the UK have done a brilliant job publishing my first four crime books – ‘Scrublands’, ‘Silver’ and ‘Trust’ in the Martin Scarsden/Mandalay Blonde series, and ‘Opal Country’, the first in the Nell Buchanan/Ivan Lucic series. Now they’ve signed me up for another two – I could not be happier! Here’s how it was reported in the UK trade magazine ‘The Bookseller’…. Wildfire nets two more in Hammer’s… Read More »New UK Book contract