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Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Grafton Everest Adventures
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y separately published work icon Pushed from the Wings : An Entertainment Ross Fitzgerald , Alan Moir (illustrator), Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1986 Z31289 1986 single work novel humour satire
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y separately published work icon All About Anthrax Ross Fitzgerald , Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1987 Z286340 1987 selected work short story humour
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y separately published work icon Busy in the Fog : Further Adventures of Grafton Everest Ross Fitzgerald , South Melbourne : Macmillan , 1990 Z287663 1990 single work novel humour
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y separately published work icon Fools’ Paradise : Life in an Altered State Ross Fitzgerald , Trevor L. Jordan , North Melbourne : Arcadia , 2011 Z1803108 2011 single work novel humour satire '"Wake up, Australia," Grafton Everest exhorts viewers every morning on Australia-wide breakfast television. This doesn't please those he attacks like wily former premier Hoogstraden, whose biography Grafton is forced into writing. Grafton's day job as Professor of LifeSkills and Hospitality is under threat from the economically and sexually rapacious Vice-Chancellor Deirdre Morrow. And Lee Horton, head of Australia's newly privatised Secret Service trading as Spyforce Australia is worried too. He knows that Grafton has trouble lying. And nothing is more dangerous than a man who habitually tells the truth.' Source: http://www.scholarly.info (Sighted 02/09/2011).
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y separately published work icon Going Out Backwards Ross Fitzgerald , Ian McFadyen , Ormond : Hybrid , 2015 8850206 2015 selected work short story

'Bumbling Mangoland academic, Professor Dr Grafton Everest, has been elected to the Australian Senate, without really knowing why, and due to the influx of weird Independents, finds himself holding the balance of power. Despite this, his personal life is a train wreck. A prostatectomy has left him impotent, his daughter is staging a theatrical event with an outlaw motorcycle gang and he suspects his wife is planning to have him put to sleep. On top of it all, Australia is facing natural disaster from Tectonic Change. Can Grafton save his family, his country and himself?'

Source: Publication summary.

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y separately published work icon So Far, So Good Ross Fitzgerald , Antony Funnell , Ormond : Hybrid , 2018 17287233 2018 single work novel humour 'Professor Dr Grafton Everest's latest outrageous entertainment takes us to London and New York after a series of hilarious meanderings in the land of Oz.

'So Far, So Good centres on our hapless professor's obsession with food and fame; his relationship with his increasingly independent wife Janet; their wayward (and soon to be married) daughter Lee-Anne; and his much-loved terrier Maddie. This cleverly plotted satire exposes the sad state of universities and of what now passes for politics in the West. Our obsession with technology, our fear of outsiders and our distrust of elites also come in for a pasting.

'Caught in a series of concentric conspiracies, Grafton manages to save the day, save the world and even launch Australia on the road to a republic.'  (Publication summary)
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y separately published work icon The Dizzying Heights Ross Fitzgerald , Ian McFadyen , Murrumbeena : Hybrid , 2019 17287129 2019 single work novel humour

'In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest, former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland, is surprised to find himself President of the newly minted Republic of Australia. He is also concerned when he learns that, due to a drafting error, it is to be an American-style executive presidency. Luckily he manages to avoid any actual work or duties, save heading the newly created Department of Wellbeing, and leaves on a goodwill tour of the United States.

'Here, to his further surprise, he is hailed as a political guru and even a messiah by a population still reeling from the incumbency and assassination of president Ronald Thump. Adulation for his even most off-the-cuff comments leads to Grafton being courted by both Democrats and Republicans as a possible US Presidential candidate, something which seems impossible until he discovers a well-kept secret about his true citizenship. After further discoveries, including a secret society of retired spies and bionic clones, he returns to Australia to find that the Department of Wellbeing has become a ruthless dictatorship that has brought the nation to a stop. It is now up to Professor Dr Everest to save the country …'  (Publication summary)

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y separately published work icon The Lowest Depths Ross Fitzgerald , Ian McFadyen , Ormond : Hybrid , 2021 23412213 2021 single work novel humour

'The eighth book in the Grafton Everest series sees the hapless ex-President of the Republic of Australia, Dr Professor Grafton Everest, caught up in a web of international espionage and intrigue that he is hopelessly ill-equipped to handle.
'Abandoned to his own inadequate devices when his wife Janet departs on a world tour, with his home invaded by his now broke daughter and son-in-law, Grafton accepts an assignment with the United Nations to investigate electoral fraud in Russia. The reason is not only to get out of the house; an old letter from his mother, addressed to someone in the Soviet Union fifty years ago, suggests that Grafton may not be the only child that he always thought he was.
'Grafton’s mission to Moscow and his search for this mysterious sibling take him far from the Russian capital, deep into the icy wastes of Siberia and even deeper in a tangled conspiracy whose roots extend back to the Cold War and even as far back as the Russian Revolution.' (Publication summary)

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First known date: 1986
Last amended 6 Sep 2019 09:49:32
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