Publications

2023 Novel Ordinary Gods & Monsters (PanMacmillan Australia)

2022
Novel The Diplomat (PanMacmillan Australia)

2021
Short story A Lovely and Terrible Thing in short story advent calendar (Hingston and Olsen, Canada)

2019
Short story collection A Lovely and Terrible Thing (Picador, Australia)

2018
Novel City of Crows (Europa, US)
Short story Petrichor (Best Summer Stories, Black Inc)
Short story The Very Edge of Things (Meanjin A-Z Anthology)

2017
Novel City of Crows (Picador, Australia)
Short story Petrichor (Island Magazine)
Short story Blood Brother (Meanjin Magazine) 

2016
Novel La Compagnie des Artists (Albin Michel, France)
Short story Season of Hope (Griffith Review)

2015
Short story Headful of Bees in Sleepers Almanac X (Sleepers Publishing)
Short story Where there's Smoke in anthology 'Where there's Smoke' (Black Inc)

2014
Short story The Mare’s Nest (Review of Australian Fiction)
Short story The Mare’s Nest Broadcast on UK Radio BBC4
Novel La Mauvaise Pente (Albin Michel, France)
Novel Cairo (Quercus Publishing, UK)

2013
Novel Por Mal Camino (Es Pop Ediciones, Spain)
Novel Cairo (Scribe Publishing)
Novel Beraubt (DVA, Germany)

2012
Novel Les Affliges (Albin Michel, France)
Novel Bereft (Sterling Publishing, USA)
Novel Keyip Gecmis (Aspendos, Turkey)
Novel The Low Road (Sterling Publishing, USA)
Short story A Lovely and Terrible Thing (Best Australian Stories 2012)
Short story A Lovely and Terrible Thing broadcast on BBC Radio

2011
Short story A Lovely and Terrible Thing (Granta)
Short Story Where there’s Smoke (Best Australian Stories 2011)
Short Story The Middle of Nowhere (Griffith Review)
Short Story Where there’s Smoke (The Big Issue)

2010
Novel Bereft (Scribe Publishing)
Short Story The Age of Terror (Best Australian Stories 2010)
Short Story Theories of Relativity (New Australian Stories)
Essay No Place Like Home (Meanjin)
Short Story Theories of Relativity (Kill Your Darlings)

2009
Short Story The Age of Terror (Readings and Writings)
Short Story The Other Side of Silence (Griffith Review)
Short Story The Very Edge of Things (Meanjin)
Short Story The Shed produced for ABC Radio National Sunday Story
Short Story The Possibility of Water (New Australian Stories)

2008
Short Story The Possibility of Water (The Griffith Review)
Short Story What the Darkness Said (Wet Ink)

2007
Novel The Low Road (Scribe Publishing)
Short Story Growing Pains (The Big Issue)

2006
Short story The Shed  (The Best Australian Stories 2006)
Short story The Shed  (Granta New Writing 14) 

 

 

Prizes

2020
Short story collection A Lovely and Terrible Thing longlisted for the Colin Roderick Award

2018
Novel City of Crows shortlisted for Indie Fiction Award

2014
Novel Cairo longlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award

2012
Short story A Lovely and Terrible Thing shortlisted for BBC International Short Story Prize
Novel Bereft shortlisted for UK Golden Dagger Award

2011
Novel Bereft winner of Indie Award for Best Fiction
Novel Bereft winner ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year
Novel Bereft shortlisted for Miles Franklin Award
Novel Bereft shortlisted for ASL Gold Medal for Literature
Novel Bereft shortlisted for Ned Kelly Award for Fiction
Novel Bereft  shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year
Novel Bereft longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award

2008
Novel The Low Road winner of Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction

2007
Short story The Possibility of Water winner of Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature

2006
Manuscript The Low Road shortlisted for Victorian Premiers' Award for Unpublished Manuscript