Peter Temple

Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction five times and has a legion of fans around the world.

He is the author of The Iron Rose, Shooting Star and In The Evil Day, and of four novels featuring lawyer, gambler and private eye, Jack Irish: Bad Debts, Black Tide, Dead Point and White Dog. The Broken Shore (Text Publishing, 2005 & 2006, Quercus, UK, 2006) has won the Colin Roderick Award, the Ned Kelly, the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year 2006, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. It recently won the 2007 Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the biggest crime writing prize in the world.

The Broken Shore has also been published in other countries; in Canada by Random House Canada, in New York, USA by Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2007, in The Netherlands (as De gebroken kust) by De Bezige Bij, and in Germany (as Kalter August) by Bertelsmann.

Contact: The Text Publishing Company

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