Excellent news from the UK! Silver has been named a Times/Sunday Times Crime Book of the Year for 2020. This is a great honour, and follows on from Scrublands being named a Crime Book of the Year for 2019. Huge thanks to UK publishers Headline/Wildfire who have done so much to promote the book. Here’s the whole list. You can Silver is in some pretty good company. Troubled Blood by… Read More »Crime Book of the Year!
A huge thanks to all the bookstagrammers and bloggers who participated in this – taking turns to get the word out to their followers about Trust. This has been such a valuable means of communications in these Covid days, when getting out and about to bookstores and events in person has been largely impossible. The great thing about social media, of course, is that it’s not one-way communication; people provide… Read More »The Great Aussie Blog Tour
The first review in mainstream Australian media: The Weekend Australian October 10th, three days before publication. A huge thanks to Robyn Walton (mysteriously given the by-line ‘Dalton’ here) for such a positive review. She says, among other thing: “Chris Hammer has excelled himself with Trust.” And “Hammer…delivers a thriller strong on character development, social insights and ethical issues as well as dramatic action.”
LoveReading styles itself as the UK’s leading book recommendation website, so I’m very happy and grateful that the team there has chosen Silver as one of its six books of the month. Great timing with Silver published in paperback in the UK. Here’s what the site’s Reviews Editor Liz Robsinson writes: “A cracking and class-act of a crime novel stuffed full of atmosphere and detail which skilfully sits alongside a… Read More »Book of the Month
This is such a good idea – I haven’t heard of it before. The Tandem Collective has organised a read-along of Scrublands, lasting a week, with targets for each day. This is happening in the UK. As I understand it, many of those participating are booksagrammers and other high profile readers. I’ll be interested to see what they think about it!
It’s paperback publication week for Silver, with the UK paperback (left) in stores from Wednesday and the Australian B-format available from today. The designs are similar but subtlely different. Both are wonderful. I’m very happy with both – and happy that Silver is now available to readers at a lower price.
Scrublands is Audible Australia’s Editor’s Choice for August – which means it’s free to download for members. Link here. Read by the amazing Dorje Swallow – hope you can enjoy this!
Still more than two months to Trust’s publication day in Australia, but already there is a sense of building momentum. Apple Books have included it in their big annual pre-order promotion ‘Tomorrow’s Biggest Books’, where Trust finds itself in the ‘Blockbuster Fiction’ category. No kidding. That has to be a good omen, right? Big thanks to Apple. Link here. Some other great books to be found there as well, so… Read More »Tomorrow’s Biggest Books
Allen & Unwin have finalised the cover for Trust, my new crime thriller featuring Martin Scarsden and Mandalay Blonde. It’s another beauty from designer Luke Causby, who also created the covers for all the Australian editions of Scrublands and Silver. Trust will be published on October 13th in Australia and New Zealand. I’m hoping to get out and about a bit to publicise it, but guess the pandemic is going… Read More »Cover revealed for Trust
Excellent news out of the US! Scrublands has been shortlisted for the best debut novel of 2019 in the prestigious The Strand Magazine Awards. I’m in some great company – see here. Congratulations to Jane Harper; The Lost Man is shortlisted for the best mystery novel of 2019. It’s very pleasing to see Scrublands getting some recognition in America, where it hasn’t had the same impact as in Australia, Britain,… Read More »The Strand – shortlisted!