Temple, who was born in South Africa, is the first Australian to win the award.īut while it might have scored a top-class prize for crime writing, I’m not entirely convinced that this book is a conventional crime novel. Since my reading of The Broken Shore, it has been awarded the Duncan Lawrie Dagger (formerly the CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction) for 2007. Well, two months later I’m finally composing this review-of-sorts. I then gave the book to my father, who was about to embark on a long haul trip back to Australia, and kept telling myself I’d write about it … soon. And because I couldn’t quite work out what it was about the book that I loved so much I couldn’t muster the creative energy to write a review. The book was absolutely enthralling in a way I could not put my finger on. I picked up a cheap copy from Waterstone’s earlier in the year and read it over the course of a dismal weekend in June. But then I heard lots of good things, mainly from British critics, about Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore and knew it was a book I had to track down. Fiction – paperback Quercus 400 pages 2007.Ĭrime novels set in modern day Australia are few and far between.
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