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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Runner
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'It's 1919, Richmond football club is on top of the ladder, cream buns are threepence each and four boys are gunning for the best job in town. Charlie is lucky enough to win the prime job – running messages for Squizzy Taylor, the most dangerous gangster in Melbourne. But things start to get a little too hot for Charlie, so he decides to take the money and run . . .' (Publication summary)

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    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2005 .
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      Extent: 216p.
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      • Published 30 May 2005
      ISBN: 0143302078
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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Robert Newton's Runner Timothy Roberts , Cheltenham : Insight Publications , 2023 27862407 2023 single work criticism
y separately published work icon Runner, Robert Newton Angie Barillaro , Essendon North : Radiant Heart Publishing , 2014 8933836 2014 single work criticism
[Review] Runner Ernie Tucker , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 41 no. 2 2006; (p. 84)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
[Review] Runner Jane Black , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 19 no. 3 2005; (p. 49)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
[Review] Runner Mike Shuttleworth , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , July no. 2 2005; (p. 18)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
Young Adult Dianne Dempsey , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 June 2005; (p. 6)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 June 2005; (p. 26)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
[Review] Runner Margot Hillel , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 49 no. 3 2005; (p. 45)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
[Review] Runner Jo Coward , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 20 no. 3 2005; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
Exploring Australia Stella Lees , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 13 no. 3 2005; (p. 30)
— Review of Runner Robert Newton , 2005 single work novel
Sprinting from Squizzy's Life of Crime Christopher Bantick , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 September 2005; (p. 16)
Doing a Runner 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , July no. 2 2005; (p. 7) Robert Newton explains that his latest book, Runner, is not the usual funny caper he has written about in the past. It is a gritty story about Charlie Feehan, a teenager in the 1920s who has a brush with the Melbourne criminal Squizzy Taylor.
y separately published work icon Runner, Robert Newton Angie Barillaro , Essendon North : Radiant Heart Publishing , 2014 8933836 2014 single work criticism
y separately published work icon Robert Newton's Runner Timothy Roberts , Cheltenham : Insight Publications , 2023 27862407 2023 single work criticism
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  • Richmond, East Melbourne - Richmond area, Melbourne, Victoria,
  • 1919
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