Karen Chisholm
The Ned Kelly's will be presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival (we'll be there again this year) on the evening of Wednesday 29th July, 2007.
Best Crime Novel
Chain of Evidence by Garry Disher (Text Publishing)
The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham (Little, Brown)
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan (MacMillan)
The Cleaner by Paul Cleave (Random House)
The Undertow by Peter Corris (Allen & Unwin)
Spider Trap by Barry Maitland (Allen and Unwin)
Best First Crime Novel
Karen Chisholm
With little fanfare, some would say as little fanfare as he received in life, a report of the death of Eric Rolls appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald this week. Not a crime fiction author, but an Australian author whose most well known book is probably 1981's A Million Wild Acres, the story of the conquest and destruction of the Australian Wilderness. Another of his books "Citizens and Sojourners" has adorned the shelves in these parts for many years.
Karen Chisholm
Our final weekend covered 3 panels that we were particularly keen to attend.
Karen Chisholm
Over on my partner's own blog (which you can now see via News and Views as well), he's been posting some reviews of books read whilst travelling recently.
The first review is
Fluke by Christopher Moore(link is external)
and the second is for