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Exiles (novel)
''Exiles'' (2022) is a crime novel by Australian writer, Jane Harper. It was originally published by Pan Macmillan in Australia in 2022. This novel is the third, and final installment in the author's Aaron Falk series, following '' The Dry'' (2016), and ''Force of Nature'' (2017). Synopsis A year before the main timeline of this novel Aaron Falk had been in the small South Australian wine-making town of Marralee visiting the annual Marralee Valley Food and Wine Festival at the invitation of some friends who live in the town. During that festival thirty-nine-year-old Kim Gillespie went missing, leaving her six-week-old daughter alone in a stroller. A frantic search for the woman finds nothing. The mystery remains unsolved. A year later and Falk is back in town for the festival again staying with his friend, Greg Raco, a police officer who is uncle to Gillespie's teenage daughter. Raco persuades Falk to look over the material he has gathered on the disappearance but nothing, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Harper
Jane Harper (born 1980) is a Anglo-Celtic Australians, British Australian author known for her Crime fiction, crime novels, including ''The Dry (novel), The Dry'', ''Force of Nature (novel), Force of Nature'' and ''The Lost Man (novel), The Lost Man'', all set in rural Australia. Early life Born in Manchester, England, Harper moved to Australia with her family when she was eight. There, she lived in the outer Melbourne suburb of Boronia, Victoria, Boronia, and eventually acquired Australian citizenship. As a teen, Harper returned to the UK with her family and lived in Hampshire. Later, she attended the University of Kent and studied English. Career After graduating with a degree in English and history, Harper gained an entry-level journalism qualification. She got her first job as a trainee at the ''Darlington & Stockton Times'' in County Durham. Later she was a senior news journalist for the ''Hull Daily Mail''. In 2008 she returned to Australia to take up a reporting job at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Journal
''Library Journal'' is an American trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey. It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practice. It also reviews library-related materials and equipment. Each year since 2008, the Journal has assessed public libraries and awarded stars in their Star Libraries program. Its "Library Journal Book Review" does pre-publication reviews of several hundred popular and academic books each month. With a circulation of approximately 100,000, ''Library Journal'' has the highest circulation of any librarianship journal, according to Ulrich's. ''Library Journal's'' original publisher was Frederick Leypoldt, whose company became R. R. Bowker. Reed International later merged into Reed Elsevier and purchased Bowker in 1985; they published ''Library Journal'' until 2010, when it was sold to Media Source Inc., owner of the Junior Library G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Jane Harper
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Crime Novels
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022. Major publications Literary fiction * Robbie Arnott – '' Limberlost'' * Jessica Au – '' Cold Enough for Snow'' * Geraldine Brooks – ''Horse'' * Jane Caro – ''The Mother'' * Steven Carroll – ''Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight'' * Shankari Chandran – '' Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'' (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award) * Robert Drewe – ''Nimblefoot'' * Katerina Gibson – ''Women I Know'' (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) * Yumna Kassab – ''The Lovers'' * Robert Lukins – ''Loveland'' * Fiona McFarlane – ''The Sun Walks Down'' * Fiona Kelly McGregor – ''Iris'' * Paddy O'Reilly – ''Other Houses'' * Edwina Preston – '' Bad Art Mother'' * Craig Sherborne – ''The Grass Hotel'' * Steve Toltz – ''Here Goes Nothing'' Short story collections * Katerina Gibson – '' Women I Know'' * Mirandi Riwoe – ''The Burnished Sun'' Crime and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books is a British publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. History Pan Books began as an independent publisher, established in 1944 by Alan Bott, previously known for his memoirs of his experiences as a flying ace in the First World War. The Pan Books logo, showing the ancient Greek god Pan playing pan-pipes, was designed by Mervyn Peake. The later version was by Edward Young who also designed the logo for Penguin. A few years after it was founded, Pan Books was bought out by a consortium of several publishing houses, including Macmillan, Collins, Heinemann, and briefly, Hodder & Stoughton. It became wholly owned by Macmillan in 1987. Pan specialised in publishing paperback fiction and, along with Penguin Books, was one of the first popular publishers of this format in the UK. Many popular authors saw their works given paperb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Winik
Marion Winik is an American journalist and author, best known for her work on NPR's ''All Things Considered''. Early life and education Winik was born in Manhattan in 1958 and grew up on the Jersey shore. She graduated from Brown University in 1978, majoring in History and Semiotics, and received her MFA from Brooklyn College in 1983. Notable works In her childhood and early twenties, Winik focused on writing poetry, publishing two collections, ''Nonstop'' and ''Boycrazy''. Winik then began writing personal essays, which were published in ''The Austin Chronicle.'' These essays caught John Burnett's eye, who was an NPR reporter based in Austin, Texas at the time. He suggested that Winik work as a commentator for ''All Things Considered'' and her first piece was published there in 1991. The following year, a literary agent contacted her, resulting in the 1994 publication of ''Telling'', a collection of Winik's essays. A couple of years later in 1996, Winik published ''First Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
