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'Wyatt is meticulous, demanding and implacable, and this may be the toughest, coolest and most uncompromising series in Australian literature.
'Wyatt made some powerful enemies in his first three outings, and the time has come to confront them. But we know by now that Wyatt’s revenge won’t be showy, impetuous and futile; it will be pragmatic, elaborate—and still possibly futile. He holes up in Sydney, preparing to return home to Melbourne to play his enemies against each other in a dangerous double-cross that will tear down the notions of loyalty and obligation.
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Wanted by the police and contract hitmen, Wyatt discovers that a shadowy third player has joined the hunt. Enter Stolle. Who is his client? Is this a trap Wyatt's walking into? What of the score itself, the suburban bank with two million in the vault? It looks easy enough, if you don't count a bank manager who owes favours to the wrong people, a gun-running pilot, grifters, bent cops and punks with ambition. (Source: Trove) (...more)See full AustLit entry
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Thriller about a stylish bank robber whose inscrutable methods ensure he never gets caught - until he meets Anna Reid. (Source: Trove) (...more)See full AustLit entry
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'Set in the South Australian outback, this novel continues the adventures of master thief Wyatt, first introduced in the author's earlier novel, "Kickback". In this novel, the Sydney mob has hired a bitter ex-policeman to kill Wyatt.' (Publication summary)
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'When Buzz Shaw, director and enfant terrible of Australian cinema, invites reclusive former rock star Andrew 'The Lizard' Zirk to be his guest at the acclaimed 'Tropfest' short-film festival, neither is aware they are about to star in a very different sort of production. Murder.' (Publisher's blurb - back cover). (...more)See full AustLit entry
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'When reclusive former rock-star Andrew “The Lizard” Zirk accepts an invitation to a rock and roll party in honour of Australia’s nastiest, sleaziest, crudest and most successful musician, Sydney Melbourne, he little realises he has just started a new career as Australia’s most successful crime sleuth. Before his Fender has squealed its first note in anger, Sydney is dead of an apparent drug overdose. His long-standing roadie has provided the warm-up, zapped an hour earlier by 240 volts of deadly electricity.
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'When prematurely retired rock star turned detective Andrew 'The Lizard' Zirk and his gorgeous chauffeuse, Fleur, holiday together on the Indonesian island of Ulambor, the Scrabble set seems destined to spend the entire time in the bottom of the bag...The Lizard is about to find out what most of us already know: sharing a resort with an Aussie sporting team is murder.' (Publisher's blurb - back covers 2000, 2001). (...more)See full AustLit entry
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'This is a novel based on the life of Kate Kelly, Ned’s sister. It is a retelling of the outlaw legend from the point of view of the women in the family. The story is related by Kate, as she watches the inexorable destruction of her family and experiences first-hand the tragic price of notoriety.'
Source: Author's website.
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'This is the story of a search for the lost white woman in the wilds of Gippsland, Victoria in 1846 - a quest in defence of virtue and "civilised" values. It is also a story of fear, history, myth and the power of the imagination.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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'This breathtaking first novel explores Leon Trotsky and his wife's years of Mexican exile in the home of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Mingled with the voices of Stalin's desolate young wife and that of Trotsky himself are the tales of the lesser known who have also created history–the Mexican artist who foretells Trotsky's death; a Bolshevik engineer surviving the chill of the Stalinist regime; the bodyguard who is unable to prevent the assassination. Together, the stories reveal the panorama of Russian history, revolution, and upheaval in the twentieth century.
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Shortlisted for the National Book Council Award for Australian Literature in 1985.
Untapped says:
Award-winning author Geoff Page’s First World War novel exposes the battle on the Australian home front.
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'The story revolves around the vicar of a New England country town and his conflicts during the First World War.'
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Heavily censored by the Australian government but described by Patrick White as the Australian novel he most wanted to see republished.
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A novelist from the future writes an historical account of our past in this science fiction classic.
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'Tomorrow is a novel within a novel. Knarf (read it backwards and remember Dalby Davison) is a 24-century novelist who has written an historical novel about a group of Sydney people in the 20th century.
'His story begins in the 20s, runs through the Depression, faithfully describes the course of WWII until the time when the date catches up with the story, and Marjorie had to begin to prophesy'.
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'Plumbum traces the fortunes of the five unalluring members of what is eventually the world's most successful heavy-metal band, from the drab, planned dullness of Canberra to the humid unpleasantness of Sydney to the violent nightmare of Calcutta, a city which effectively disperses the group's aspirations to mystic fulfillment.' (Publication summary)
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A satirical novel focuses on garbage men in Sydney: variously described as Rabelasian or as vulgar. (...more)See full AustLit entry
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After a deadly nuclear war, the American city of Kennedy walled itself away from the decline of the USA. Determined to continue as a functioning metropolis, Kennedy strictly patrolled its boundaries and struggled to maintain the semblance of a modern city. (Publisher's blurb). (...more)See full AustLit entry
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