Jane harper next book 2025
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About Jane Harper
Author
Jane Harper is the author of bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors and Exiles. Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide, with more than 3.5 million copies sold to date.
Jane has won numerous awards for writing, including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year and the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year.
The major motion picture adaptation of The Dry, starring Eric Bana as Aaron Falk, took more than $20.5m at the Australian box office ahead of release dates overseas.
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The film adaptation of Force of Nature has concluded its run in Australian cinemas; it was filmed in regional Victoria in winter 2022. Bana is joined by Anna Torv (Mindhunter) as Alice Russell, Deborra-lee Furness (Jindabyne) as Jill Bailey, Robin McLeavy (Homeland) as Lauren, Sisi Stringer (Mortal Kombat) as Beth, Lucy Ansell (Utopia) as Bree and Jacqueline McKenzi
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Jane Harper, bestselling author of The Dry, on Exiles, writing in a pandemic and the rural noir renaissance
In Exiles, bestselling author Jane Harper's latest novel, detective Aaron Falk (first introduced to readers in 2016's The Dry) travels to South Australia's wine country where he engages in a little post-COVID reflection over a glass or two of red.
Does he want to continue living in the city, where he works long hours poring over spreadsheets in his role investigating financial crime for the Australian Federal Police (AFP), with little time for a social life or anything else?
Or should he give it all up for a life among the grapevines, in a small-town community reminiscent of his childhood home?
It's not giving too much away to reveal that Falk spends much of Exiles — the final instalment of Harper's Falk trilogy — mulling over these questions.
Loading...His creator, too, has been considering the question of work-life balance.
"It's been a busy few years," Harper recently told ABC RN's The Book Show.
It's something of a
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Jane Harper: The Australian Crime Author Everyone Seems to Be Reading
Jane Harper’s authorial-origin story is both the stuff of a lifelong dream-come-true, and the outcome of professional focus, preparation, and planning. The seeming overnight international success of her debut novel The Dry, belies a keen backstory of Harper channelling her creativity via a highly pragmatic approach, the same combined effort with which she now plots her tightly-woven mysteries.
Even as a full-time business reporter, Harper knew she had a book she wanted to write, squeezing in fiction writing time before and after her journalism workday. In 2014, she pursued an online writing course, and, the following year, won the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for The Dry. That award was instrumental in gaining publishing deals: The Dry debuted in 2016 in Australia, Force of Nature was published in 2017, and The Lost Man in 2018. “I didn’t know it was going to work out,” says Harper of that focused, pre-publi
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