Christos Tsiolkas is the author of three other novels: Loaded (filmed as Head-On), The Jesus Man and The Slap, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2009, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the ALS Gold Medal. Christos Tsiolkas is also a playwright, essayist and screenwriter. He lives in Melbourne.