Adrian Hyland

Kinglake-350 to VKC. Urgent, do you read me? The fire's here now. God help us. Kinglake-350 is a masterpiece of writing about family, community, country life, and what happens when a day of ultimate terror arrives. Adrian Hyland takes a dramatic and compelling sequence of events on that day and weaves them into a picture of universal significance and deep...

The rural crime fiction wave continues with this brilliant new arid drama. - Australian Women's Weekly The writing is generous and whip-smart, with sentences that will stop readers in their tracks to savour them... Heart-racing twists propel the novel to its denouement, while the oppressive heat and arid landscape add an extra layer of threat to the unfolding drama. -...

Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan's tooth, and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate, Superintendent Tom MacGillivray, has persuaded her to sign on as the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush. Then Tom is hospitalised and Emily...

Something has drawn Emily Tempest back to Central Australia — to Moonlight Downs, the community she left half a lifetime ago. Not much has changed; the barefoot kids are bush mechanics now, but Emily still doesn't know if she belongs in the Aboriginal world or the white. And trouble still seems to follow her. Within hours of her arrival, an...