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'"88 is angry. Damien can feel it prickling the air between them. Every muscle in his body is taut, ready to run, planning his escape over the fire between those chairs and straight down to the creek. But he can't run. Not yet. Nothing has happened, yet. He'd just make a fool of himself. Out of the corner of his eye he watches as 88 slowly packs tobacco in a cigarette paper, rolls it into a cylinder, gets up and moves to sit right next to Damien, so close Damien has to clench his teeth and hang onto the chair to stop himself from bolting."
'Damien can't bear the thought of 88 coming back to live with him and Mum; memories of past violence are too strong. But there's glamour in having a father who rides a Harley Davidson and it leads Damien to run with the in-crowd at school and abandon his real friends.
'Set in a small-town community in northern Australia, The Devil You Know takes you inside the mind and under the skin of a troubled boy with a vivid imagination and one who must wrestle with his own violent impulses and minor betrayals.' (From the publisher's website.)
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The Latest Word
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , September no. 20 2010; (p. 52)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 23 no. 3 2009; (p. 41)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
Centre Selection
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , November no. 3 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 38)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 24 no. 3 2009; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel
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[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 89 no. 1 2009; (p. 47)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 17 no. 3 2009; (p. 46)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 24 no. 3 2009; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Devil You Know
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of The Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 53 no. 3 2009; (p. 38)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel -
Centre Selection
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , November no. 3 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Devil You Know 2009 single work novel
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