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Hachette Australia
26 May 2021

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- The title for Matt Nable's latest novel, STILL, comes from the turmoil that surrounds Senior Constable Ned Potter, at work and at home, from which he catches glimpses of quiet as he gazes out over the water. Set in Darwin in 1963, Nable captures the salt air, the warm sea breeze, the stifling heat as well as the heavy drinking culture of the time - I hope they've since eased off a bit! This is a well-paced mystery that will satisfy all who've been enjoying the Australian crime fiction boom of recent years from Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, Gary Disher, Christian White, ...and the list goes on! And some of you may already be aware of Matt's immersive performance in the movie adaptation of The Dry (an excellent adaptation - a future classic). Craig Kirchner

Darwin, Summer, 1963.

The humidity sat heavy and thick over the town as Senior Constable Ned Potter looked down at a body that had been dragged from the shallow marshland. He didn't need a coroner to tell him this was a bad death. He didn't know then that this was only the first. Or that he was about to risk everything looking for answers.

Late one night, Charlotte Clark drove the long way home, thinking about how stuck she felt, a 23-year-old housewife, married to a cowboy who wasn't who she thought he was. The days ahead felt suffocating, living in a town where she was supposed to keep herself nice and wait for her husband to get home from the pub. Charlotte stopped the car, stepped out to breathe in the night air and looked out over the water to the tangled mangroves. She never heard a sound before the hand was around her mouth.

Both Charlotte and Ned are about to learn that the world they live in is full of secrets and that it takes courage to fight for what is right. But there are people who will do anything to protect themselves and sometimes courage is not enough to keep you safe.

STILL is an evocative, page-turning thriller from a brilliant Australian writer. If you loved THE DRY and SCRUBLANDS, you will love STILL.


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Imprint:   Hachette Australia
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 32mm
Weight:   460g
ISBN:   9780733644740
ISBN 10:   0733644740
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Matt Nable is a novelist, scriptwriter and actor. He wrote and starred in The Final Winter (2007), an independent Australian film that has since been released internationally, and appears in Riddick alongside Vin Diesel, East West 101, Underbelly: Badness and Brothers in Arms: Bikie Wars. He is currently appearing in cinemas in The Dry alongside Eric Bana. His numerous film roles include The Killer Elite alongside Clive Owen and Robert De Niro, and 33 Postcards alongside Guy Pearce. Two of Matt's screenplays are currently in development. With his wife and three children, Matt divides his time between Sydney and Los Angeles. Still is his fourth novel and his first for Hachette Australia.

Reviews for Still

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- The title for Matt Nable's latest novel, STILL, comes from the turmoil that surrounds Senior Constable Ned Potter, at work and at home, from which he catches glimpses of quiet as he gazes out over the water. Set in Darwin in 1963, Nable captures the salt air, the warm sea breeze, the stifling heat as well as the heavy drinking culture of the time - I hope they've since eased off a bit! This is a well-paced mystery that will satisfy all who've been enjoying the Australian crime fiction boom of recent years from Jane Harper, Chris Hammer, Gary Disher, Christian White, ...and the list goes on! And some of you may already be aware of Matt's immersive performance in the movie adaptation of The Dry (an excellent adaptation - a future classic). Craig Kirchner





It is a dark and tense multi layered story that will keep you guessing. * [ONLINE] Mandy Loves to Read * Review * [ONLINE] Queensland Reviewers Collective * [..] Nable renders the past both tangible and real and its riveting. * VIC [PRINT], The Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald, [AUDIENCE: 98,214, ASR: AUD 35,193] * It's compelling. Highly recommended. * NATIONAL [PRINT], Good Reading Magazine, [AUDIENCE: 8,000, ASR: AUD 1,044] * Recommendation * QLD [RADIO] ABC North Queensland * A very evocative novel that excels in its characterisations and depictions of life in Darwin * ACT [PRINT] Canberra Weekly [AUDIENCE: 43, 073 ASR: AUD 772] * Thick with humidity as tangible as the words on the page, and suffused with violence, this is a rural thriller to fill your Jane Harper void. * [ONLINE] Readings * A gripping must-read for 2021 * NATIONAL [PRINT] WHO Magazine [AUDIENCE: 82,789 ASR: AUD 17, 868] * Review * SA [PRINT], Murray Pioneer, [AUDIENCE: 6,400, ASR: AUD 292] * It's great to see local authors using the Australian landscape with such strength. Actor Matt Nable does this well. * QLD, Townsville Bulletin et al. (News Corp regional syndicate), [AUDIENCE: 92,602, ASR: 3,419] * Review * WA [PRINT], Geraldton Guardian, [AUDIENCE: 3,673, ASR: AUD 161] *


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