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'Kings Cross is a circus of desire, and Spencer has a ringside seat.
'In an underground sex shop he sees it all: the buck's parties and streetwalkers, the drunks and the judges, the trannies, the junkies, the chokers. All types come through the doors and it's Spencer's poorly paid job to sell them what they want.
'What Spencer wants is less straightforward. He makes figurines of Jesus with tentacles, writes revenge poetry and plans a film about the Immaculate Conception starring the blow-up dolls he lives with. Drifting between his dysfunctional family, the shop with its seedy cast of muscle-boys and amateur criminals, and the misfits who populate his apartment block, Spencer doesn't really know what he's looking for.
'All that changes when Livia walks down the stairs. But can a daughter of the Cross provide salvation?
'A love story set in a sex shop, Love Machine is a candid, confronting but also very funny first novel about the strange and familiar business of desire.' (From the publisher's website.)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Hype, Hairy, Horny, Hope
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 19)
— Review of Beautiful Malice 2010 single work novel ; In-Human 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine 2010 single work novel ; The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Some Kind of Ghost
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 17)
— Review of Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Glimpse into the Shadows
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 20 February 2010; (p. 20)
— Review of So Greek : Confessions of a Conservative Leftie 2010 single work autobiography ; Lachlan Macquarie : His Life, Adventures and Times 1947 single work biography ; Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Getting off to a Good Start
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Keeping Faith 2010 single work novel ; Come Inside 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine 2010 single work novel
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Getting off to a Good Start
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Keeping Faith 2010 single work novel ; Come Inside 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 20 February 2010; (p. 20)
— Review of So Greek : Confessions of a Conservative Leftie 2010 single work autobiography ; Lachlan Macquarie : His Life, Adventures and Times 1947 single work biography ; Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Glimpse into the Shadows
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Some Kind of Ghost
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 17)
— Review of Love Machine 2010 single work novel -
Hype, Hairy, Horny, Hope
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 19)
— Review of Beautiful Malice 2010 single work novel ; In-Human 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine 2010 single work novel ; The Legacy 2010 single work novel
- Kings Cross, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,