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Hayley Scrivenor is a former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. DIRT CREEK is her first novel (published as DIRT TOWN in Europe and Australia). An earlier version of the book was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and won The Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. 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 Australia.
Awards: CWA (2023) see all
Genres: Mystery
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When She Was Gone (2025)
Sara Foster
"Rose Campbell, a former London cop, knows a lot about violence and how it can tear us apart. When Rose's estranged daughter goes missing in Western Australia--with two children from the rich family she is nannying for--Rose will have to dig deep to uncover what really happened. This assured, utterly absorbing novel will have you up late into the night, still turning pages. Sara Foster sensitively and persuasively renders both the banality and the unique horror of violence against women and asks, How far would you be willing to go to save someone you love? This was an absolute highlight of my reading year."
Our Last Wild Days (2025)
Anna Bailey
"Loyal May returns to her small hometown with unfinished business weighing on her. What unfolds from there will make you feel the heat of southern Louisiana seeping off the page. Anna Bailey is the master of things that move in the dark, with language so lush you feel like you could reach out and touch it. Our Last Wild Days is moody, visceral, stunning - don't miss it."
Upon a Starlit Tide (2025)
Kell Woods
"To enter a world fashioned by Kell Woods is to be entirely won over by magic and history. Upon a Starlit Tide is enchanting in every sense of the word. Drawing on stories we know well, Kell Woods presents us with something deliciously and thrillingly new, alert to women's secret desires... I could have floated in the lagoon of this story forever."
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