Debra Oswald is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier’s Literary Award and author of the novels Useful (2015) and The Whole Bright Year (2018). She was creator/head writer of the first five seasons of successful TV series Offspring. Her stage plays have been performed around the world and published by Currency Press. Gary’s …
Josh Kemp is an author of Australian gothic fiction. Banjawarn was joint winner of the 2021 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and is his debut novel. His short stories have been published by Kill Your Darlings, Overland, Seizure, Tincture and Breach. He’s previously been shortlisted for the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and longlisted for the Fogarty Literary Award. Currently completing …
Title: Darkness For LightAuthor: Emma ViskicPages: 267Published Date: 2 December 2019Publisher: Echo PublishingSeries Details: 3rd book in the Caleb Zelic seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisAfter a lifetime of bad decisions troubled PI Caleb Zelic is finally making good ones. He’s in therapy, reconnecting with the Deaf community, and reconciling with his beloved wife.But he can’t …
Kerry McGinnis was born in Adelaide and at the age of twelve took up a life of droving with her father and four siblings. The family travelled extensively across the Northern Territory and Queensland before settling on a station in the Gulf Country. Kerry has worked as a shepherd, droving hand, gardener and stock-camp and …
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Ned Kelly Awards. The shortlist has been whittled down from 135 entries across the categories. The award winners will be announced in a ceremony in August. The shortlisted books, authors and publishers are as follows: Best Crime FictionThe Enemy Within by Tim Ayliffe …
Title: Man In the ShadowsAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 194Published Date: 1988Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 11th book in the Cliff Hardy seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisGareth Greenway wasn’t all he seemed, but Cliff Hardy was used to that.What he wasn’t used to was the shadowy world Greenway leads him into: neurosurgeons, mental patients, AIDS sufferers, all …
Title: The January ZoneAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 205Published Date: 1987Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 10th book in the Cliff Hardy seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisPolitician Peter January is having trouble staying alive so he hires Cliff Hardy to help him. Hardy dislikes the role of politician’s ‘security consultant’ but the dislikes bombers, hitmen and hate-mailers even …
Title: The Greenwich ApartmentsAuthor: Peter CorrisPages: 173Published Date: 1986Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 8th book in the Cliff Hardy seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIs brilliant young film maker Carmel Wise the innocent victim of gangland violence or is she enmeshed in a pornography racket as the press and the police imply? Carmel’s businessman father hires …
Title: ScrublandsAuthor: Chris HammerPages: 481Published Date: 25 July 2018Publisher: Allen & UnwinSeries Details: 1st book in the Martin Scarsden seriesBuy A HardcopyBuy eBookPublisher’s SynopsisIn an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, killing five parishioners before being shot dead himself.A …
Sean Wilson is a writer, playwright and communications professional from Perth, Western Australia. His short stories have been published in Australian and international journals, anthologies and literary magazines including Island and Narrative, and he was previously shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award by Sydney Theatre Company. He now lives in Melbourne. Author Website Stand …