Affirm Press has acquired world rights to Christian White’s upcoming crime novel, The Long Night, via RGM Artists.

Christian is an Australian author and screenwriter whose credits include feature film Relic, Netflix series Clickbait and Paramount’s Apartment 7A. His debut novel, The Nowhere Child (2018), 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 (2024) was named QBD Book of the Year and shortlisted for the ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year Award. Bold, vivid and heart-racingly intense, The Long Night is the darkest and most exhilarating novel yet from Christian.

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.

Christian said: ‘I’m thrilled to be working with the wonderful Affirm Press crew again and am beyond excited to share my new book with readers. The Long Night has a lot of what my readers like about my previous novels, but it also goes to some much darker places. If I can give just one reader nightmares, then I’ve done my job.’

Affirm Press publishing director Cate Blake said: ‘Christian has been at the forefront of Australian crime writing for years now and The Long Night is his most gripping book yet. Wildly propulsive and cinematically intense, this is guaranteed to keep readers up for their own long night as they race to the heart-stopping ending.’

The Long Night will be published by Affirm Press in November 2025.