Melbourne publisher Transit Lounge has contracted my next book, I’m delighted to reveal. Mural is a novella-length ‘confession’ by a psychopath held in a secure facility. It’s provocative and sometimes violent, challenging accepted views about what motivates murderers. It also investigates the lives of two very famous men, one of them Australia’s most prolific public artist. Transit Lounge, an indie publisher with a big reputation for putting out excellent reading, hopes to release the book in September next year. In …

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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 …

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I’m honoured to be among the first authors to help American entrepreneur Ben Fox add flesh to the skeleton of a brilliant idea at https://shepherd.com/. A book-lover and tech expert, he wants readers to be able to access easily the tomes they enjoy reading. So Shepherd, the website, is sub-titled ‘Discover the best books’. Ben describes it as browsing in your favorite bookstore ‘reimagined for the online world’. Authors, experts and creators recommend books in many categories. You search under …

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