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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2019 shortlisted Varuna Fellowships — Varuna / New England Writers' Centre (NEWC) Fellowship
- 2018 highly commended Australasian Association of Writing Programs Awards — Chapter One Prize
Awards for Works
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The Carnival is Over
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2022
24430522
2022
single work
novel
crime
thriller
'1971—Hal is seventeen, with dreams of escaping from Moorabool to a life in the city. But right now he’s on a good behaviour bond and stuck in a job he hates, paying off the car he ‘borrowed’ and crashed. Hal’s packing-room job makes him a target for workplace bullies and the friendship of the older, more worldly Christine is all that makes each day bearable. So when she doesn’t turn up for work, he’s on the alert.
'So is Sergeant Mick Goodenough. But he already knows what’s happened to Christine: the same thing that happened to the newly elected deputy mayor. When another gruesome ‘accident’ occurs in Moorabool, Goodenough suspects there’s something sinister going on behind the scenes at the abattoir.
'Mick and Hal are both determined to dig up the truth. Before long each of them is going to find himself in mortal danger and running for his life.
'Greg Woodland, author of the acclaimed The Night Whistler, returns with another nailbiting rural thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat.' (Publication summary)
- 2023 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
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The Night Whistler
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2020
19599487
2020
single work
novel
thriller
'The summer of 1966–7. Hal and his little brother have just come to live in Moorabool. They’re exploring the creek near their new home when they find the body of a dog.
'Not just dead, but killed.
'Not just killed, but horribly maimed.
'Constable Mick Goodenough, recently demoted from his big-city job as a detective, is also new in town—and one of his dogs has gone missing. Like other pets around the town.
'He knows what it means when someone tortures animals to death. They’re practising. So when Hal’s mother starts getting late-night phone calls—a man whistling, then hanging up—Goodenough, alone among the Moorabool cops, takes her seriously. But will that be enough to keep her and her young sons safe?
'Nostalgic yet clear-eyed, simmering with small-town menace, Greg Woodland’s wildly impressive debut populates the rural Australia of the 1960s with memorable characters and almost unbearable tension.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2021 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
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