Saturday 27 August 2011

Ongoing Ned Kelly Award Reading Challenge


The Ned Kelly Awards (named after bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia. They are known with literary circles as the 'Neddies', and the award categories are as follows: 

  • The Best First Fiction
  • Best True Crime
  • Best Fiction
  • SD Harvey Short Story
  • Lifetime Achievement

Past winners and those nominated can be found here; 
New Kelly Awards Home Page
Crime Down Under Ned Kelly Past Winners & Nominations

My challenge is simple - to read as many Ned Kelly award listed books as I can lay my hands on.


  1. AVIESON, Bunty - Apartment 255 (2002 WINNER Best First Fiction) - Brief Thoughts
  2. BARRETT, Robert G. - The Tesla Legacy (2007 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  3. BELL, A.A. - Diamond Eyes (2011 Nominated Best First Fiction) - My Review
  4. CORRIS, Peter - Appeal Denied (2008 Nominated Best Fiction)
  5. CORRIS, Peter - Deep Water (2009 Nominated Best Fiction)
  6. CORRIS, Peter - Follow The Money (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  7. CORRIS, Peter - Lugarno (200 Nominated Best Fiction)
  8. CORRIS, Peter - Master's Mates (2004 Nominated best Fiction)
  9. CORRIS, Peter - Open File (2008 Nominated Best Fiction)
  10. CORRIS, Peter - Other Side Of Sorrow (2000 Nominated Best Fiction)
  11. CORRIS, Peter - Salt and Blood (2003 Nominated Best Fiction)
  12. CORRIS, Peter - Saving Billie (2006 Shortlisted Best Fiction)
  13. CORRIS, Peter - The Black Prince (1999 Nominated Best Fiction)
  14. CORRIS, Peter - The Undertow (2007 Nominated Best Fiction)
  15. CORRIS, Peter - Torn Apart (2010 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  16. DISHER, Garry - Chain Of Evidence (2007 WINNER Best Fiction) - My Review
  17. DISHER, Garry - Dragon Man (2000 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  18. DISHER, Garry - Kittyhawk Down (2003 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  19. DISHER, Garry - Snapshot (2006 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  20. DISHER, Garry - Wyatt (2010 WINNER Best Fiction) - My Review
  21. ENGWERDA, Robert - Mosquito Creek (2011 Best First Fiction) - My Review
  22. FOX, Kathryn - Blood Born (2010 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  23. FOX, Kathryn - Death Mask (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  24. FOX, Kathryn - Malicious Intent (2005 Nominated Best First Fiction)
  25. FOX, Kathryn - Skin and Bone (2008 Nominated Best Fiction)
  26. FOX, Kathryn - Without Consent (2007 Nominated Best Fiction)
  27. GREENWOOD, Kerry - Devil's Food (2006 Nominated Best Fiction)
  28. GREENWOOD, Kerry - Heavenly Pleasures (2005 Nominated best Fiction)
  29. HOWELL, Kathryn - Frantic (2008 Nominated Best First Fiction)
  30. HOWELL Kathryn - Violent Exposure (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Thoughts
  31. HYLAND, Adrian - Diamond Dove (2007 WINNER Best First Fiction) - My Review
  32. HYLAND, Adrian - Gunshot Road (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  33. IRWIN, Stephen M - The Dead Path (2010 Nominated Best First Fiction) - My Comments
  34. LIVINGS, Martin - Carnies (2007 Nominated Best First Fiction) - My Review
  35. MALONEY, Shane - Brush Off (1997 WINNER Best Fiction)
  36. MALONEY, Shane - Something Fishy (2003 Nominated Best Fiction)
  37. MALONEY, Shane - Sucked In (2008 Shortlisted Best Fiction)
  38. McGEACHIN, Geoff - D.E.D. Dead! (2006 Nominated Best Fiction)
  39. McGEACHIN, Geoff - Diggers Rest Hotel (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  40. McGEACHIN, Geoff - Sensitive New Age Spy (2008 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  41. NEWTON, P.M. - The Old School (2011 Shortlisted Best First Fiction) - My Review
  42. OWEN, David - How The Dead See (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  43. OWEN, David - No Weather For A Burial (2011 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  44. PALMER, Alex - The Tattooed Man (2008 Nominated Best Fiction) - Brief Thoughts
  45. QUINN, Maria - The Gene Thieves (2010 Nominated Best First Fiction) - My Comments
  46. REDHEAD, Leigh - Cherry Pie (2008 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Thoughts
  47. ROBERTSON, Kel - Dead Set (2006 Shortlisted First Fiction) - My Comments
  48. ROBOTHAM, Michael - Shatter (2008 WINNER Best Fiction) - My Review
  49. ROBOTHAM, Michael - The Night Ferry (2007 Shortlisted Best Fiction) - My Review
  50. SAYER, Mandy - The Night Has A Thousand Eyes (2008 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  51. TEMPLE, Peter - Broken Shore (2006 WINNER Best Fiction)
  52. TEMPLE, Peter - In The Evil Day (2002 Nominated Best Fiction) - My Review
  53. WOMERSLEY, Chris - Bereft (2011 Shortlisted Best Fiction) - My Review


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