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Emily Tempest
2006
series - author
novel
(number
2
in series)
Issue Details:
First known date:
2010...
2010
Gunshot Road
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Now, somehow, Emily's become the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush.
'Being allergic both to authority and to keeping her big mouth shut, she's immediately at odds with her new boss. And a death at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse just makes things worse.
'Officially it's a simple case of two old drunks and a hammer.Emily's not convinced.
'Fast, funny and action-packed - Gunshot Road is Australia's literary thriller of the year. (From the publisher's website.)
'Being allergic both to authority and to keeping her big mouth shut, she's immediately at odds with her new boss. And a death at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse just makes things worse.
'Officially it's a simple case of two old drunks and a hammer.Emily's not convinced.
'Fast, funny and action-packed - Gunshot Road is Australia's literary thriller of the year. (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For Sally.
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Author’s note: Readers familiar with the Northern Territory will recognise that I’ve taken liberties with many factual matters, notably geography and language. My portrayal of the Indigenous characters is based upon insights gained during my years of working with a number of Central Australian communities; but the people, the language, the dreaming and places described are inventions.
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Epigraph:
i.
Fire tumbles roll inward
from a desert's edge.
At first they appear as
cart-wheeling Spinifex,
later, flame beyond sight
takes hold, enthralled.
ii.
It has been said
their substances is lost forest -
breath of dried air
John Kinsella 'Notes of Fire-Tumbles'
For a while the fires die down in you,
until you die down in the fires.
Michael Dransfield 'Fix'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 22 March vol. 257 no. 12 2010; (p. 55)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklist , 1 May vol. 106 no. 17 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Desert Tales
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2010; (p. 12) -
Making a Killing Where the Streets Have No Name
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 25 July 2010; (p. 13)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Astute Character Avoids the Outback's Racial and Gender Pitfalls
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 July 2010; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel
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Review of the Week
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 May 2010; (p. 19)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Entrapment
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Well Read
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 May 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel ; Thrill City 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 89 no. 8 2010; (p. 36)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Fiction Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 June 2010; (p. 22)
— Review of Gunshot Road 2010 single work novel -
Desert Tales
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2010; (p. 12)
Awards
- 2011 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
- 2010 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
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- Central Australia,
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
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