Achievements
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Ned Kelly for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for Chain of Evidence Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2002: winner for The Dragon Manitoba Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2000: winner for Kickback New South Wales Premier"s Literary, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind Children"s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind New South Wales Premier"s Literary, The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People"s Literature, 1999: winner for The Divine Wind National Broadcasting Company Banjo, National Broadcasting Company Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for The Sunken Road IBBY Honour Diploma, Writing, 1994 for The Bamboo Flute Children"s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 1993: winner for The Bamboo Flute The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour" Ned Kelly for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2010: winner for Wyatt.