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'People are craving it': writers festival brings big names to show their love of books

Andrew O'Hagan will appear at this year's Canberra Writers Festival.

The Canberra Times · Aug 27

Friday essay: Australia’s ‘quarry noir’ mines our anxiety about our biggest industry

A geologist is bludgeoned to death with his own hammer. An opal prospector is murdered, his body found crucified down a mine shaft. An entire family disappears, apparently dragged down into the mined-out spaces below an abandoned gold rush town. These are just some of the crimes in a growing…

The Conversation · Feb 12

Chris Hammer: ‘The suburbs can be delightfully sinister. The blandness is a great setting for crime books’

The novelist reflects on his trip along the drought-stricken Murray-Darling that prompted the leap into writing and how the Australian bush inspires his bestselling crime fiction

The Guardian - AU · Jun 20, 2025

Scrublands review – Chris Hammer adaptation is a rock solid addition to Australian rural noir

Strong performances from Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote lead Stan’s gripping new crime drama, about a journalist investigating a small-town murder that isn’t what it seems

The Guardian - AU · Nov 23, 2023

Scrublands: not a whodunit but a 'howcatchem', a new suspenseful Aussie inversion of the genre

In 2020, Stan announced its endeavour to produce 30 original series filmed in Australia over the next five years.

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2023

Scrublands: Award-winning ‘ripping page-turner’ becomes the latest crime thriller shot in Victoria

Filming is underway for Scrublands, an adaptation of the crime-thriller by award-winning novelist Chris Hammer.

The New Daily · Mar 5, 2023

Crime writer Chris Hammer talks about The Tilt

"I really like the idea that a character can end up being a completely different person to the one they are at the start of a book."

Newcastle Herald · Oct 23, 2022