Join Christian White in conversation, discussing his latest “pacy and ingenious thriller.”

When human remains are discovered in a forest, police are baffled, the locals are shocked and one group of old friends starts to panic. Their long-held secret is about to be uncovered.

It all began in 1999 when sixteen-year-old Aaron ran away from home, drawing his friends into an unforeseeable chain of events that no one escaped from unscathed.

In The Ledge, past and present run breathlessly parallel, leading to a climax that will change everything you thought you knew. This is a mind-bending new novel from the master of the unexpected.

Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter whose credits include feature film Relic, Netflix series Clickbait and numerous other projects in the pipeline. His debut novel The Nowhere Child was one of Australia’s bestselling debut novels ever, with rights sold in 17 international territories and a major screen deal. Christian’s second book, The Wife and the Widow (2019), and third, Wild Place (2021), were instant bestsellers. The Ledge is his fourth novel.

Over ten years ago, Jo Dixon moved from suburban Brisbane to rural Tasmania. Her debut novel, The House of Now and Then, was released in 2024, and was shortlisted for the best Debut Crime Fiction in the Ned Kelly awards, the Danger awards, and the Davitt awards. Her second novel A Shadow at the Door was released in January 2024. Her third book will be released in 2025, and she is currently working on the fourth.

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