Nye is an Australian painter who has helped to set up a mentorship scheme whereby Italian mastercraftsmen teach young Australian artists. Matt is one of these students, but he begins to feel wary of the enigmatic Nye and aided by...

SHORTLISTED FOR 1999 CBC BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF 1999 NSW PREMIER S LITERARY AWARDFriendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don t, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or...

When hordes of 18-year-old schoolies celebrate the last of their exams, the Waterloo police expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention. Then a...

A gripping prequel to Garry Disher's Peace, the must-read Australian rural crime novel of 2019

Nye is an Australian painter who has helped to set up a mentorship scheme whereby Italian mastercraftsmen teach young Australian artists. Matt is one of these students, but he begins to feel wary of the enigmatic Nye and aided by...

Neil and his bankrupt parents are scratching for gold among the mines of Southern Australia, and life is hard. Then a mysterious American, Ivan, arrives with his daughter, Kitty. But Neil doesn't stand a chance of friendship with...

Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch--and perhaps the girl--that undoes...

It's a scorching hot summer on the Mornington Peninsula, and the police are preparing for the usual holiday madness. But this time it's not just petty theft, and joyriding kids. There's a killer on the old Peninsula Highway, and...