Podcast

5 January 2026

PODCAST: Christian White on How His Daughter Changed His Writing

PODCAST: Christian White on How His Daughter Changed His Writing

Christian White talks to Cheryl about how becoming a parent has reshaped his writing and expanded his worldview, the influence his daughter now has on his creative process, and the unforgettable moment he spotted a stranger reading one of his novels in the wild. His latest book, The Long Night, is out now.

About the Author:

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, and third, Wild Place, were instant bestsellers. The Ledge is his fourth novel.

Reviews

Bold, Vivid and Heart-Racingly Intense: Read an Extract from The Long Night by Christian White

Review | Extract

3 November 2025

Bold, Vivid and Heart-Racingly Intense: Read an Extract from The Long Night by Christian White

    An Utterly Intense And Emotionally Twisted Thriller: Read Our Review of The Ledge by Christian White

    Review | Our Review

    15 October 2024

    An Utterly Intense And Emotionally Twisted Thriller: Read Our Review of The Ledge by Christian White

      Breathless Menace in Suburbia: Read an Extract from Wild Place by Christian White

      Review | Extract

      26 October 2021

      Breathless Menace in Suburbia: Read an Extract from Wild Place by Christian White

        You Won’t Put This Down: Read Our Review of Wild Place by Christian White

        Review | Our Review

        25 October 2021

        You Won’t Put This Down: Read Our Review of Wild Place by Christian White

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                        Publisher details

                        The Long Night
                        Author
                        Christian White
                        Publisher
                        Simon and Schuster
                        Genre
                        Fiction
                        Released
                        28 October, 2025
                        ISBN
                        9781923046795

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                        Synopsis

                        Em has lived a quiet life with her complicated mother and is now looking for love and a potential escape from her small hometown. When a masked man kidnaps her in the dark of night, though, she is drawn into a terrifying world.

                        Jodie has been trying to forget a troubling time in her life, pouring her trauma into her work and out of her mind. Until one night her daughter is kidnapped and Jodie is dragged back into the violence.

                        As Em and Jodie race into the darkness, the agony of the past rushes up to meet them. It will take all their devotion and courage to escape this night alive.

                        Publisher details

                        The Ledge
                        Author
                        Christian White
                        Publisher
                        Affirm Press
                        Genre
                        Fiction
                        Released
                        24 September, 2024
                        ISBN
                        9781923419483

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                        Synopsis

                        #46 in Better Reading's Top 100 2025When 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.

                        Publisher details

                        Wild Place
                        Author
                        Christian White
                        Publisher
                        Affirm Press
                        Genre
                        Fiction
                        Released
                        26 October, 2021
                        ISBN
                        9781922626103

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                        Synopsis

                        In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic Australian suburb of Camp Hill. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter becomes convinced he holds the key to the disappearance. When the police won’t listen, he takes matters into his own hands with the help of the missing girl’s father and a local neighbourhood watch group.

                        But as dark secrets are revealed and consequences to past actions are faced, Tom learns that the only way out of the darkness is to walk deeper into it. Wild Place peels back the layers of suburbia, exposing what’s hidden underneath – guilt, desperation, violence – and attempts to answer the question: why do good people do bad things?

                        Publisher details

                        The Wife and the Widow
                        Author
                        Christian White
                        Publisher
                        Affirm Press
                        Genres
                        Australian Fiction, Thriller
                        Released
                        24 September, 2019
                        ISBN
                        9781925972757

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                        Synopsis

                        A deadly secret.

                        An island town.

                        A storm brewing.

                        Set against the backdrop of an island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local who is forced to confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer.

                        But nothing on this island is quite as it seems. Only when these women are pushed to the edge can they uncover the whole, crashing truth about the men in their lives.

                        The Wife and the Widow is another mind-bending power read from Christian White. It’s a brilliant tale of deception and sacrifice from Australia’s most exciting new crime writer.

                        Publisher details

                        The Nowhere Child
                        Author
                        Christian White
                        Publisher
                        Affirm Press
                        Released
                        26 February, 2019
                        ISBN
                        9781925712735

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                        Synopsis

                        ‘Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.’ On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl. At first she brushes it off, but when Kim scratches the surface of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren’t easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy’s home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy’s disappearance unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax. Inspired by Gillian Flynn’s frenetic suspense and Stephen King’s masterful world-building, The Nowhere Child is a combustible tale of trauma, cult, conspiracy and memory. It is the remarkable debut of Christian White, an exhilarating new Australian talent.
                        Christian White
                        About the author

                        Christian White

                        Christian White is an Australian author and screenwriter whose projects include feature film Relic. The Nowhere Child is his first book and one of Australia’s bestselling debut novels ever. An early draft of this novel won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Since publication The Nowhere Child has been shortlisted for major awards including the Australian Book Industry Awards’ General Fiction Book of the Year and Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, and the Indie Book Awards’ Debut Fiction Book of the Year. Rights to The Nowhere Child have been sold in 17 international territories, and has been acquired for a major screen deal. Clickbait, a television series Christian co-created with Tony Ayres (The Slap) is currently in production for Netflix. Christian’s keenly awaited second book, The Wife and the Widow, was published by Affirm Press in 2019 and became an instant bestseller. Christian lives in Melbourne with his wife, filmmaker Summer DeRoche, and their adopted greyhound, Issy.

                        Books by Christian White

                        The Nowhere Child
                        Christian White

                        The Nowhere Child

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                        The Wife and the Widow
                        Christian White

                        The Wife and the Widow

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                        Wild Place
                        Christian White

                        Wild Place

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                        The Ledge
                        Christian White

                        The Ledge

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                        The Long Night
                        Christian White

                        The Long Night

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