Born: Established: Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender:
Male
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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y
The Seance
Boston
:
Harcourt
,
2008
Z1484341
2008
single work
novel
mystery
- 2010 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Award for Fiction
- 2008 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Horror Division — Best Novel
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y
The Ghost Writer
London
:
Jonathan Cape
,
2004
Z1105256
2004
single work
novel
mystery
'In this tantalizing tale of Victorian ghost stories and family secrets, timid, solitary librarian Gerard Freeman lives for just two things: his elusive pen pal Alice and a story he found hidden in his mother's drawer years ago. Written by his great-grandmother Viola, it hints at his mother's role in a sinister crime. As he discovers more of Viola's chilling tales, he realizes that they might hold the key to finding Alice and unveiling his family's mystery-or will they bring him the untimely death they seem to foretell?
'Harwood's astonishing, assured debut shows us just how dangerous family skeletons-and stories-can be.' (Publication summary)
- 2004 winner Dracula Society Awards — Children of the Night Award
- 2005 winner International Horror Guild Awards — First Novel
- 2006 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Award for Fiction
- 2005 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2005 commended Commonwealth Writers Prize — South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
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