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Alan Cornell Alan Cornell i(A100192 works by)
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1 2 y separately published work icon The Gentle Art of Tossing Alan Cornell , Melbourne : Black Pepper , 2011 Z1795381 2011 single work novel humour 'Ches Fanning is a downsized sports broadcaster reduced to calling sheep dog trials in rural Gippsland. He stops for counter tea at the rundown Fish Creek pub. It is the night of the local darts finals. There he spots in languid action the willowy Sam Alley, a twenty-year-old girl. Despite her parents' reservations, he takes her under his wing. He becomes her player manager and promoter but her Australian run is derailed by power brokers.

'Ches decides to take Sam to England. She competes against Britain's finest in the Pay-TV series Double Tops. He and Sam must contend with his ex and would-be wives, Helen and Hollie, the fierce local champ Tiger Magee and a hostile dartocracy. As Ches says, "People are going to lap up the story of the small town country girl who went to the Old Dart and whipped them on their own patch of lager-sodden axminster."

'Whether you're a sports tragic or not, Alan Cornell's The Gentle Art of Tossing aims straight for your funny bone and hits the target.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 The Lodger Alan Cornell , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Page Seventeen , no. 7 2009; (p. 85-88)
1 y separately published work icon Open Season : A Rock Musical David Billings (composer), Mark Leehy (composer), Alan Cornell (composer), Kevin O'Mara (composer), Donvale : Bushfire Press , 1994 Z1327001 1994 single work musical theatre young adult A local amateur theatre group hires a big city actor to stage their production of West Side Story.
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