Melbourne author Chris Womersley has made a bit of a splash with his fiction. Starting with The Low Road, which won the 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel, and then Bereft which has been shortlisted for CWA (Crime Writers Association) Gold Dagger Award in the United Kingdom.
Womersley's short story "A Lovely and Terrible Thing" has also been nominated for the BBC International Short Story Award after being originally published in Granta Magazine in October 2011. You can now read that story here.
Womersley's short story "A Lovely and Terrible Thing" has also been nominated for the BBC International Short Story Award after being originally published in Granta Magazine in October 2011. You can now read that story here.
