Jane Harper's The Dry coming to the Big Screen!

Jane Harper's The Dry was one of my favorite reads last year. If you haven't read it, put it on your TBR immediately. The Dry won the Ned Kelly Award, the Sunday Times crime book of the year, best crime and thriller in the 2018 British Book Awards, the Davitt Award, the CWA Award, the Barry Award and numerous other awards and nominations.

Now comes the news that producer Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies, Gone Girl, Wild) had an option to develop the story for the screen even before the book was published. Eric Bana is set to star and shooting begins in Australia in February. Woo-hoo!

Read more here.

2018 BRITISH BOOK AWARDS aka THE NIBBIES: Nominees

The 2018 British Book Awards aka The Nibbies were announced yesterday in several categories. Of interest to readers of this blog is the

Winner of the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year: 

The Dry by Jane Harper (Abacus)

Other nominees in the Crime & Thriller Book of the Year Category

• The Girl Before, by J.P. Delaney (Quercus)
• The Midnight Line, by Lee Child (Bantam Press)
• Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough (HarperFiction)
• Spook Street, by Mick Herron (John Murray)
• He Said/She Said, by Erin Kelly (Mulholland)

The British Book Awards are organized by the UK magazine The Bookseller.

HT: J. Kingston Pierce's The Rap Sheet