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 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!
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