Dirt Town

A powerful and moving crime novel set in rural Australia for fans of Jane Harper's The Dry and Chris Whitaker's We Begin at the End.

About the author

Hayley Scrivenor is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. Originally from a small country town, Hayley now lives and writes on Dharawal country and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong on the south coast of New South Wales. Dirt Town is her first novel. An earlier version of the book was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award.

Summary

A powerful and moving crime novel set in rural Australia for fans of Jane Harper's The Dry and Chris Whitaker's We Begin at the End.

Foreword

A powerful and moving crime novel set in rural Australia for fans of Jane Harper's The Dry and Chris Whitaker's We Begin at the End.

Additional text

Masterful. Australian crime has a new star. The characters of Dirt Town are rich, raw and beautifully realized. One of the crime books of the year. Intelligent, nuanced and compassionate

Product details

• Authors: Hayley Scrivenor
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781529080261
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-8026-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 244 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; New South Wales, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Relating to childhood, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary