The television version of Scrublands premiered to a wonderful reception in Australia on the streamer STAN on November 16th – and broadcast shortly after in the UK on BBC 4 and iPlayer and in New Zealand. Huge thanks to the team at Easy Tiger for bringing it to the screen! It’s a wonderful re-imagining of the book, directed by Greg McLean with the script developed under the leadership of Felicity… Read More »Scrublands Premieres
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
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!
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
Scrublands has been published in Italy this week by the wonderful Neri Pozza press. It’s called ‘Scrublands Noir’ and is presented with this wonderfully minimalist cover. Huge thanks to all concerned, especially translators Annamaria Biavasco and Valentina Guani. Such an amazing skill! Crime website Contorni di Noir says: “Supported by magnificent prose and a fast pace, Scrublands noir places Chris Hammer among the most original contemporary authors of noir and… Read More »Scrublands published in Italy
January the 7th – publication day in the United Kingdom! Also Ireland and continental Europe, plus the Commonwealth and pretty much everywhere else as well. The exceptions are here in Australian and New Zealand, where Allen & Unwin have done a brilliant job since publishing it in October 2020, and the US and Canada, where unfortunately we’re still overcoming publication difficulties (I know, frustrating, right?). I’m thrilled with amazing job… Read More »Trust published in UK!
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!
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
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!