January 6th is publication day for the Hardback edition of Opal Country in the UK and Ireland. Yee hah!! Opal Country is the same book as Treasure & Dirt – just a different title for different territories – so don’t go out and buy both. It’s already getting a good reception in the UK. The Times has selected it as Crime Book of the Month, with reviewer Mark Sanderson stating… Read More »UK Publication!
I was so chuffed to see this – Scrublands and Treasure & Dirt topping the list of e-books borrowed from Australian public libraries in 2021. Like an early Christmas present! A huge part of this ranking is due to OverDrive, the company that runs the Libby digital app used by Australian libraries. They featured Scrublands for a couple of weeks in September as part of their ‘Together We Read’ campaign.… Read More »Libraries top ten!
I’m feeling very proud today. Treasure & Dirt has been longlisted in the fiction category in the prestigious Indie Book Awards, organised by Australia’s independent bookstores. It’s quite the honour – a crime fiction book like mine being listed alongside such accomplished literary writers. Huge thanks to all at Allen & Unwin, to the readers and, especially, to all those wonderful Australians book sellers! Please, as we emerge from covid… Read More »Treasure & Dirt Longlisted!
Treasure & Dirt is published in Australia and New Zealand! But no launch this year and no book tour. I’m in the ACT and we’re in lockdown. That should end soon enough as vaccination rates surge, so hopefully I can get out and about a bit, particularly to visit bookstores and sign some books. In the meantime, the fantastic news is that Treasure & Dirt has been selected as Book… Read More »Book of the Month
One week to go before Treasure & Dirt is published Australia/New Zealand publication, and here I am signing copies on the back deck during lockdown. Booktopia delivered a pallet load, so I worked my may through them and sent them back. Usually, I would be visiting their Sydney warehouse. What a strange couple of years it has been! Treasure & Dirt is now available for pre-order. Please support your local… Read More »Book signings
Treasure & Dirt won’t be published until September 28th in Australia and New Zealand, but already Apple Books is getting in early with the opportunity to pre-order. This is for Australia & New Zealand only – T&D will be published in the UK and Commonwealth in January 2022 as ‘Opal Country‘. This is standalone crime novel – or maybe the beginning of a new series. Even so, there are a… Read More »Apple Books pre-orders
Scrublands continues to be published around the world in translation. Here are the covers from Taiwan and France; it was published in both territories in May 2021. It does my head in, imagining the effort of translators, editors and designers to convert my work for non-English speaking audiences, together with sales, marketing and publicity teams. It’s such an honour.Huge thanks top all of them! I love the idea of people… Read More »Taiwan and France
It’s really only after the covid year of 2020 that I’ve come to realise how important writers festivals and similar events are to me. I always enjoyed them, but also thought they were a bit like the cherry on the cake. Now I think they’re far more important, almost essential. Writers spend so much time by ourselves, those solitary hours of working. It’s something I enjoy, but you can have… Read More »Sydney Writers’ Festival
Here I am with the wonderful Emma Viskic, about to embark on our session ‘Charismatic Crime Fighters’ at the Adelaide Writers’ Week. It was such a joy to be out and about, in front of a large and enthusiastic audience, without masks, in an atmosphere of near normality. Huge thanks to Jo Dyer for the invitation, and Kvitka Becker for making the visit run so very smoothly. Travelling to Adelaide… Read More »Adelaide Writers’ Week
I’m absolutely thrilled to have Trust longlisted in the General Fiction category for the Australian Book Industry Awards. It’s quite the honour, particularly considering the quality of the other books in contention, and the quality of many books that could so easily have been included. It’s also worth noting the continuing strength of Australian crime writing, with five of the eight longlisted books fitting into crime/thriller genre. Congratulations to my… Read More »Trust longlisted for ABIAs