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'A witty, seductive and moving novel of a famous writer and his protégé Roddy Parr takes us into the luminous circle of a literary giant. It is a world of family intrigues, importunate fans -- and dark secrets. Roddy Parr is an outsider, an ambitious young man who has just completed his PhD on the legendary David Anthem - a writer regularly tipped to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature. Through his friendship with Anthem′s publisher, the dazzling svengali Julia Collis, Roddy joins the Anthem household as David′s secretary. Julia′s not-so-secret agenda is for him to become David′s biographer. Soon Roddy is indispensable, and finds his new status as insider increasingly addictive. Yet Anthem′s world is steeped in tragedy and its truths are not simple ones' (Publisher website).
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Roddy Parr is set in the same social milleu as A Case of Knives (2005). Julia Collis, a fictional publisher, appears in both books.
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Dedication: For Christopher Menz
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Chez Anthem
2011
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 25 February no. 5630 2011; (p. 22)
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Fiction
2010
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— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 123 2010; (p. 63-65)
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Well Read
2010
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 July 2010; (p. 28)
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Playful Seduction
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 July 2010; (p. 23)
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A Study of Privilege Pitted with Poetic Gems
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 17 July 2010; (p. 27)
— Review of Roddy Parr 2010 single work novel
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Biography's Burden
2010
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 June 2010; (p. 20-21)
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[Review] Roddy Parr
2010
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 89 no. 8 2010; (p. 37)
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Moral Dilemma Arises in a Glittering Unsettling World
2010
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3-4 July 2010; (p. 30-31)
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Jamesian Journey into Novelist's Soul
2010
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 July 2010; (p. 21)
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Fiction Books
2010
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 - 11 July 2010; (p. 22)
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The Fun of Fiction
2010
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biography
— Appears in: The Age , 17 July 2010; (p. 26-27) The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 July 2010; (p. 30-31)
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