Introducing Anna Westbrook

‘I want to see more diverse voices in Australian historical novels to tell the stories that the ghosts want told’

We're delighted to announce that we've acquired a debut novel from a talented Sydney writer, Anna Westbrook. The Quiet Noise is eloquent and spare, based on the real-life murder of a young girl in inner Sydney in the 1940s.

Anna, who has a PhD in creative writing and teaches at New York University's Sydney campus, says of the book, ‘The Quiet Noise came from a chance dalliance in a coffee shop with a pictorial history of Newtown and a story about a murder in a cemetery. The cemetery I knew intimately – it was around the corner. The dark night in 1946 I knew nothing about, but could not shake. It took more than five years to listen to the noise and learn about the history of my community in those turbulent years after the Second World War and find the traces of that world left in this one. I’m thrilled to be publishing with Scribe because I want to see more diverse voices in Australian historical novels to tell the stories that the ghosts want told*.’

The Quiet Noise will be published in 2015, but you can see Anna at the Emerging Writers' Festival next week. She’ll be appearing in two panels: ‘Industry Insiders: The Future of Teaching Writing’ and ‘Looking Back, Looking Forward’.

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Introducing Anna Westbrook

Multi-time winner of the Australian Small Publisher of the Year Award