For Detective Dusty Buchanon, a female cop in the very male world of the Northern Territory Police Force, it always pays to expect the unexpected.
Ned Kelly Awards 2009 First Fiction Shortlist
Ghostlines
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Winner of the 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript
Ghostlines centres on Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist who has stepped on the wrong toes. With his personal l... Buy or find out more →
Crooked
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
Corruption, prostitution, gambling, bent coppers, crooked politicians, honest crims. It's all in a day's work. Set against the back drop of the Askin government with events revolving around notorious crime identities Dic... Buy or find out more →
The Build Up
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
For Detective Dusty Buchanon, a female cop in the very male world of the Northern Territory Police Force, it always pays to expect the unexpected. Buy or find out more →
Phillip Gwynne
Jetty Rats
$16.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Dogleg Bay is one big retirement home; the richest man in town – the funeral director – drives a hotted-up hearse.
Hunter Vettori is thirteen, and longs to catch a record-breaking mulloway, leave Dogleg Bay, and beco... Buy or find out more →
Swerve
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Hugh is 16. He loves cello, he's a closet car fanatic, and he has no luck with girls. When his grandfather, Poppy, asks him to go on one last road trip to Uluru in his 1970 Holden HG Monaro GTS 350 V8, Hugh decides, for ... Buy or find out more →
Deadly Unna
$19.95 – Paperback book / Puffin
Deadly, unna?' He was always saying that. All the Nungas did, but Dumby more than any of them. Dumby Red and Blacky don't have a lot in common. Dumby's the star of the footy team, he's got a killer smile and the knack wi... Buy or find out more →
The Build Up
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
"Jimmy has this feeling he's often had here that somebody, or something, is watching him. He breathes in deep, filling his lungs, and dives, his eyes open. The water is surprisingly clear, the tree trunk disappears into ... Buy or find out more →
Nukkin Ya
$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
Nukkin Ya is the sequel to Deadly, Unna?. Fifteen-year-old Gary Black, 'Blacky', isn't sure what he wants or where he is going. The one thing he does know is that he wants to escape the small country town he's grown up i... Buy or find out more →
The Build Up
$22.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
For Detective Dusty Buchanon, a female cop in the very male world of the Northern Territory Police Force, it always pays to expect the unexpected. Buy or find out more →