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!
The Sydney Writers’ Festival has pushed on with virtual sessions, including podcasts. Here I am ‘in-conversation’ with author and journalist Paul Daley. Enjoy! It’s been an interesting time, this lockdown. Zoom and Skype and Facetime have helped to keep communication lines open, but I can’t wait to get out and talk to people in person. Hopefully, when my new book ‘Trust’ is published in October, I’ll be able to do… Read More »Sydney Writers’ Festival
Silver has been longlisted for one of the world’s most prestigious crime writing awards, the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s Gold Dagger for the best crime novel of the year. This is a big one, as all books published in the UK during the past year are eligible, including novels from the USA and the rest of the English-speaking world, so there’s a lot of competition! My thanks to the wonderful… Read More »UK Gold Dagger Longlist
This has been such a tough year for Australian bookstores, hit by the covid lockdown and economic recession. And still they do their best to promote local authors, including hand selling our books. So I was already immensely grateful to them all. And now I’m even more grateful; Silver is shortlisted for the Booksellers’ Choice for best adult fiction. And in such wonderful company. Australia has such a strong literary… Read More »Booksellers’ shortlist!
So Silver didn’t win the ABIA general fiction award – that went to Bruny by the wonderful Heather Rose (we share the same publishers) – a thoroughly deserving winner. Bruny is a great read, part thriller, part family saga, part political satire. Now Silver has been longlisted for the Australian Booksellers’ Association’s Booksellers’ Choice Award for adult fiction book of the year. As you can see, it’s again among some… Read More »Love Your Book Shop…
I’m so happy that Silver has made the shortlist for the ABIAs – the Australian Book Industry Awards. It’s the General Fiction category. It’s quite the honour, given the quality of the other books shortlisted, and given those on the longlist. The only disappointment is that there won’t be an awards ceremony this year, especially as I know Dervla, Michael and Heather and we could have had quite the party!… Read More »And the shortlist!
Silver is longlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards for 2020 for general fiction! It goes to show how popular Australian crime fiction is right now – and how many good crime writers we have – seven out of the eight are crime books. I’ve read seven of the eight and they’re all good. I was lucky enough to make the shortlist last year with Scrublands, but I’m not too… Read More »Silver makes ABIA longlist
Some excellent news from the United States: Scrublands has been shortlisted for a prestigious Barry Award for the Best First Mystery/Crime novel. The winner will be announced in October at the Bourchercon World Mystery Convention to be held in Sacramento. Huge thanks to US publisher Atria for giving Scrublands such great support.