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Dedication: For Wenona
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Featured by the BIG Book Club, an initiative supported by The Advertiser in partnership with Arts SA, The Australia Council for the Arts, Channel 7, FIVEAA and the state's public libraries to promote a love of reading, discussion and literature, February, 2005.
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Epigraph: But if you are sympathetic, if you have the motivation, you can be in any town, any city, in the world, a stranger on your first day, and it will sing to you. Some people run from Grandma's house, they long for the bite of the wolf (Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room).
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Medicine, Cricket, Pornography, and Lots of Character
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 19 no. 2 2005; (p. 223-224)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel -
The Last Taboo
2005
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 February 2005; (p. 8) -
Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction
2004
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— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175) -
Tangled Secrets and Repression
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 244 2004; (p. 30)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel -
Time to Confront Sport's Culture of Silence
2004
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 May 2004; (p. 43)
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A Flash of Discontent on the North Shore
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 January 2004; (p. 13)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel -
Dark Secrets of a Private Man
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 31 January 2004; (p. 4)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel -
Caught on a Sticky Wicket
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 2 February 2004; (p. 7)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel -
Family's Respectable Facade Torn Apart by Porn
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 January 2004; (p. 7)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel -
Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 24 February vol. 122 no. 6409 2004; (p. 76)
— Review of A Private Man 2004 single work novel ; Sweet Time 2004 single work novel -
Private Lives : Sport and Pornography Expose Human Frailties
2004
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 February 2004; (p. 6a) -
Time to Confront Sport's Culture of Silence
2004
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 May 2004; (p. 43) -
Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175) -
The Last Taboo
2005
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 February 2005; (p. 8)
Awards
- 2006 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2005 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- 2005 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2005 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2005 shortlisted Tasmania Pacific Region Prize — Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize
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