‘Hands’ shortlisted for top prize
I’m absolutely thrilled that my debut novel The Hands of Pianists was last week shortlisted https://www.arts.gov.au/pm-literary-awards/shortlist/hands-pianists for the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. The fiction-section winner will be decided on 13 December from five finalists. What the judges thought of my book simply bowled me over. It’s an ‘extraordinary piece of fiction … with a brilliant sense of darkness and an irresistible dramatic power’. Its writer is ‘of the very first rank’. He has produced a work ‘that reminds us of …