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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

Why Jane Harper’s ‘outback noir’ novels make for comfortable – and uncomfortable – reading

Jane Harper sits in a rare category of contemporary Australian writers whose novels have achieved phenomenal international success. She has sold 1.5 million books in Australia and 3.5 million overseas.

The Conversation · Nov 13, 2025

Last One Out by Jane Harper review – satisfying thriller lacks the heft of her previous novels

The Australian crime writer’s latest is less about the dead than it is about the living, in a dilapidated town left suffocating in the aftermath of tragedy

The Guardian - AU · Oct 30, 2025

Wicked, Mountainhead and Nicolas Cage’s Surfer: what’s new to streaming in Australia in June

Plus Nicole Kidman’s Babygirl, an animated adaptation of Magic Beach and David Attenborough’s plea for the world’s oceans

The Guardian - AU · May 31, 2025

The Survivors: how to watch, recaps, cast, plot, trailer, first looks and everything we know

The Survivors is a Netflix murder mystery thriller series set in Tasmania starring Charlie Vickers and Yerin Ha.

WhatToWatch · May 15, 2025

Force of Nature: The Dry 2 review – Eric Bana returns as Aaron Falk in solid thriller

Based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, this twisty mystery follows Falk as he investigates a dodgy CEO (Richard Roxburgh) and his missing employee (Anna Torv)

The Guardian - AU · Feb 7, 2024

What was Canberra reading in 2024? Our most borrowed library books

What do Bonnie Garmus, Prince Harry and Jane Harper all have in common?

The Canberra Times · Dec 28, 2023

Meet the authors bound for the Sydney Writers' Festival

Benjamin Stevenson is an identical twin and the author of Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone. He has a unique approach to sibling rivalry – he gets his revenge on the page. He's one of more than 400 authors participating in the 2023 Sydney Writers' Festival.

ABC News · May 20, 2023

Writers fest hits 10 years of quality

'To have them all at the one festival is pretty amazing'

Newcastle Herald · Mar 4, 2023

The best new books released this summer, as selected by avid readers and critics

The eight reads our critics couldn't put down this summer include a new book from the author of American Psycho and one for Jane Harper fans.

ABC News · Feb 24, 2023