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'Virgil Mann is an Australian editor working in London who, via an unseemly brush with fate, has become a publisher. Good luck? Bad luck? It's too early to tell.
'His boss, Anthony, is facing some nasty unforeseen challenges while his boss's wife, Delia (Britain's favourite daytime television presenter), is attracting some unwanted attention of her own. Their son, Wesley, is about to tear the world apart with teen angst, while in sun-scorched Ibiza, a gold-digging beauty and the heir to Britain's largest retail fortune are about to bring the party season to a shocking and chilling end.
'What could one blow-in Aussie have to do with all these events? More than he'd ever expected--and far more than he'd like!
'Climb on board this crazy caravan of tortured teens, beach terrorists, medicated depressives, and hopeful hangers-on and explore the thrills and horrors of life in Britain at the dawn of the digital age.' (Publication summary)
'His boss, Anthony, is facing some nasty unforeseen challenges while his boss's wife, Delia (Britain's favourite daytime television presenter), is attracting some unwanted attention of her own. Their son, Wesley, is about to tear the world apart with teen angst, while in sun-scorched Ibiza, a gold-digging beauty and the heir to Britain's largest retail fortune are about to bring the party season to a shocking and chilling end.
'What could one blow-in Aussie have to do with all these events? More than he'd ever expected--and far more than he'd like!
'Climb on board this crazy caravan of tortured teens, beach terrorists, medicated depressives, and hopeful hangers-on and explore the thrills and horrors of life in Britain at the dawn of the digital age.' (Publication summary)
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Epigraph: Truth is a rare bird ans she seldom settles for long. Anon.
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Epigraph:
Gather ye now you bairns of the isle
Eat beans and potatoes, be fair and virile
Sleep sound in your beds and good vigil you keep
For as the tea cools, what you sow you will reap!
Wesley Garson-LLoyd
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Epigraph: Crimine ab uno disce omnes (From the one crime, recognise them all as culprits.) - Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil), Aeneid 11, 65
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Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel ; Rare Bird of Truth : A Novel 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 36)
— Review of Rare Bird of Truth : A Novel 2010 single work novel
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Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 36)
— Review of Rare Bird of Truth : A Novel 2010 single work novel -
Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Where Have You Been? 2010 single work novel ; Rare Bird of Truth : A Novel 2010 single work novel
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