Christian White is a Melbourne-based screenwriter, producer and author.
Christian co-wrote – alongside his frequent collaborator Natalie Erika James – Paramount Pictures’ psychological thriller feature APARTMENT 7A, starring Julia Garner and Dianne Wiest. In television, he co-created and co-produced the hit Netflix series CLICKBAIT which was the most-watched streaming show globally in September 2021.
Christian’s other television credits include: the Amazon crime comedy series DEADLOCH; and an adaptation of Jane Harper’s THE SURVIVORS with his CLICKBAIT co-creator Tony Ayres. Christian’s first feature – with Natalie Erika James – RELIC premiered at Sundance, SXSW, and earned an IndieWire Critics nomination for Best Feature Film.
As an author, Christian’s debut novel THE NOWHERE CHILD (Affirm Press) was the fastest selling debut novel by an Australian writer, selling to more than 20 territories. In addition to writing the novels THE LEDGE (out October 2024), THE WIFE AND THE WINDOW and WILD PLACE, all published by Affirm Press, Christian has also released three novellas through Audible Originals.
Christian also has a number of film and television projects in development.
For a full CV please contact info@rgm.com.au.
2018, Affirm Press
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, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from Kentucky twenty-eight years earlier. He believes she is that girl.
At first Kim brushes it off, but when she scratches the surface of her family background 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 unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards a tense, terrifying, and entirely unexpected 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 attracting worldwide attention.
The Nowhere Child won the 2017 Wheeler Centre Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript, and was published in 2018 through Affirm Press, with rights also sold into 17 countries. The Nowhere Child was longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards in the Debut Fiction category.
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2019, Affirm Press
Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a mystery/thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside down when she’s forced to confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives.
Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and the Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?
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2020, Audiobook (Audible Original Novella)
Stan Weir is mourning a tragic loss when he meets a mysterious nine-year-old girl, who claims to be the reincarnated spirit of his late wife. Marcy Keef is a single mother trying to make ends meet when her daughter Erin starts describing ‘past life memories’. Neither wants to believe Erin, but as violent secrets are revealed, the truth becomes harder to deny.
With echoes of Stephen King, this audio novella is a propulsive thriller about grief, guilt and truths better left unknown.
Narrated by Ellen Archer.
2021, Audiobook, (Audible Original)
Co-written with Summer De Roche.
Nostalgic for childhood summers a world away from his manic Melbourne life, Dave Johnson purchases a secluded house in a postcard-perfect coastal town. A savvy investment, he convinces his wife. One year on, and his seaside dream has turned into one big headache, with his tenants not paying rent, and now simply vanishing into thin air, leaving all their belongings behind. Summoned back to the house to inspect the abandoned property, Dave and his wife Lisa become trapped in the isolated spot after their car breaks down. Spooked and alone, they become lured into investigating what really happened to their mysterious tenants.
Narrated by Luke Arnold and Sibylla Budd
2021, Affirm Press
In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia. 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 and attempts to answer the question: Why do good people do bad things?
From the international bestseller Christian White, Wild Place is a white-knuckle descent into a street near you.
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