“Stephen was most gracious about it all.”Shortly after that, the international and television rights to Scrublands, Hammer’s debut novel, were sold. We meet in the piano bar of the showy Emporium hotel on Brisbane’s South Bank in the lead-up to publication of Hammer’s second novel, Silver. Hammer’s writing is enveloping, lyrical, evoking a profound sense of place. I threw out at least 100,000 words writing Scrublands. I would be really disappointed if in 10 years time Scrublands was my best book.”• Silver by Chris Hammer is out on 1 October through Allen & Unwin

Source: The Guardian September 28, 2019 20:01 UTC