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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2022 highly commended Viva La Novella Award
- 2020 shortlisted Kill Your Darlings Awards — The KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award for ‘The Dead Falls’
- 2019 longlisted Fogarty Literary Award for 'In the Shadow of Burringurrah'
Awards for Works
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Jasper Cliff
Fremantle
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Fremantle Press
,
2024
28245903
2024
single work
novel
crime
thriller
'When Toby Bowman vanishes, his brother Lachlan retraces a road trip to the last place Toby phoned from – a remote northern town called Jasper Cliff. There, Lachlan finds himself marooned at the dying town’s pub, and soon learns that his brother is just one of many to have gone missing in recent years. Like Toby, his brother becomes obsessed with finding the Rift, a deep hole in a ravine somewhere in the hills. But what will Lachlan learn, and what will he see, if he stares into the Rift, too?' (Publication summary)
- 2023 shortlisted Fogarty Literary Award
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Banjawarn
Crawley
:
UWA Publishing
,
2022
23605018
2022
single work
novel
'Garreth Hoyle is a true crime writer whose destructive love affair with hallucinogenic drugs has sent him searching for ghosts in the unforgiving mallee desert of Western Australia. Heading north through Kalgoorlie, he attempts to score off old friends from his shearing days on Banjawarn Station. His journey takes an unexpected detour when he discovers an abandoned ten-year-old girl and decides to return her to her estranged father in Leonora, instead of alerting authorities. Together they begin the road trip from hell through the scorched heart of the state’s northern goldfields.
'Love, friendship and hope are often found in the strangest places, but forgiveness is never simple, and the past lies buried just beneath the blood red topsoil. The only question is whether Hoyle should uncover it, or run as fast as his legs can take him.
'Banjawarn is an unsettling debut from Josh Kemp. Echoing Cormac McCarthy’s haunting border trilogy and narrative vernacular that recalls the sparse lyricism of Randolph Stow and Tim Winton, this is a darkly funny novel that earns its place amongst the stable of Australian gothic literature.' (Publication summary)
- 2023 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer
- 2022 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- 2021 joint winner Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript as 'Stranger Places'.
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