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Force Of Nature (novel)
''Force of Nature'' is a 2017 thriller novel by Australian author Jane Harper. This novel is the second in the author's ''Aaron Falk'' trilogy, which started with '' The Dry'' in 2016, and concluded with ''Exiles'' in 2022. Synopsis ''Force of Nature'' is set in the thickly forested mountains north-east of Melbourne and features Federal Agent Aaron Falk. A group from a Melbourne tech company go on a retreat in the mountains, where Alice Russell, one of the women in the group, disappears while navigating the Mirror Falls trail. Falk has been investigating the company for financial irregularities, and the woman was his secret informer. Critical reception Writing in ''The Guardian,'' Amanda Coe called the novel "a gripping procedural, with the narrative chops and assured pace of a Hollywood thriller." She noted a number of traits found in the author's earlier works as "Harper deploys end-of-chapter hooks and narrative misdirections with aplomb. But with a style that is efficien ... [...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] |
The Dry 2
''Force of Nature: The Dry 2'' (titled on-screen as simply ''Force of Nature'') is a 2024 Australian mystery thriller film written and directed by Robert Connolly. The film is a sequel to the 2020 film '' The Dry'' and is based on the 2017 novel ''Force of Nature'' by Jane Harper. It stars Eric Bana, reprising his role as Aaron Falk, alongside Anna Torv, Deborra-Lee Furness, Robin McLeavy, Sisi Stringer, Lucy Ansell, Jacqueline McKenzie, Tony Briggs, Jeremy Lindsay Taylor and Richard Roxburgh. The film had its premiere in Melbourne on 21 January 2024. It was released in Australia by Roadshow Films on 8 February 2024. Plot Federal police detectives Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper investigate money laundering facilitated by Daniel Bailey at his firm, Bailey Tennants Finances. They coerce employee Alice Russell to obtain evidence, in return for immunity for her previous embezzlement from the firm. Alice attends a corporate hiking retreat in the fictional Victorian Giralang Ranges wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Thriller 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 countr ... [...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] |
2017 Australian Novels
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number) * One of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017, 2117 Science * Chlorine, a halogen in the periodic table * 17 Thetis, an asteroid in the asteroid belt Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe *'' Seventeen'' (''Kuraimāzu hai''), a 2003 novel by Hideo Yokoyama * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *''Stalag 17'', an American war film *''Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'', a 2009 film whose wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2017. Major publications Literary fiction * Peter Carey – ''A Long Way from Home'' * Felicity Castagna – ''No More Boats'' * J. M. Coetzee – ''The Schooldays of Jesus'' * Michelle de Kretser – '' The Life to Come'' * Robert Drewe – ''Whipbird'' * Richard Flanagan – ''First Person'' * Eva Hornung – ''The Last Garden'' * Sofie Laguna – ''The Choke'' * Alex Miller – '' The Passage of Love'' * Gerald Murnane – '' Border Districts'' * Bram Presser – '' The Book of Dirt'' * Kim Scott – ''Taboo'' * Jock Serong – ''On the Java Ridge'' Short story collections * Melanie Cheng – ''Australia Day'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Judith Clarke – ''My Lovely Frankie'' * Zana Fraillon – ''The Ones That Disappeared'' * Morris Gleitzman – ''Maybe'' * Andy Griffiths ** ''The Tree House Fun Book 2'' ** ''The 91-Storey Treehouse'' * Jessica Townsend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Connolly
Robert Connolly (born 1967) is an Australian film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Melbourne, Victoria. He is best known as the director and writer of the feature films '' Balibo'', '' Three Dollars'', '' The Bank'' and '' The Dry'' and its sequel, as well as the producer of '' Romulus, My Father'' and '' The Boys''. He is head of the film distribution company, Footprint Films, owned by Arenafilms. Early life and education Connolly was born in 1967. Along with David Wenham, he worked in theatre before transitioning to filmmaking. They were both involved in a production of The Boys at the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney. Connolly graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in the late 1990s, where he undertook a three-year course that included directing. Career Connolly made his first feature film as producer, ''The Boys'' in 1998, which had its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. His first film a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborra-Lee Furness
Deborra-Lee Furness Jackman, (born 30 November 1955) is an Australian actress and producer. Early life Furness was born in Annandale, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of 18, Furness attended secretarial school to learn shorthand and typing after her mother advised her to have a back-up career if her acting ambitions didn't eventuate to anything. She then got a job as the assistant to John Sorell, the news director at Channel 9. Despite describing herself as "such a bog secretary", Furness has said she thoroughly enjoyed the urgency, the fast action and the high energy of the newsroom. After working in the newsroom for a year, Furness was asked to work on ''No Man's Land'', the station's daytime current affairs program which was produced exclusively by women and hosted by Mickie de Stoop. Furness started working on the show as a researcher before becoming an on-air reporter. After her work at Channel 9, Furness then travelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Torv
Anna Torv (born 7 June 1979) is an Australian actress. Her performance as Olivia Dunham in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox science fiction series ''Fringe (TV series), Fringe'' (2008–2013) earned her four consecutive Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, Saturn Awards for Best Actress on Television, a record for any performer. She portrayed psychologist Wendy Carr in the Netflix period crime drama ''Mindhunter (TV series), Mindhunter'' (2017–2019) and Characters of The Last of Us (TV series)#Tess, Tess in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series ''The Last of Us (TV series), The Last of Us'' (2023). Her work on ''The Last of Us'' garnered her a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She is known in Australia for the ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC drama ''The Newsreader'', for which she won two consecutive AACTA Awards. She stars in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Bana
Eric Martin Andrew Banadinović (born 9 August 1968), known professionally as Eric Bana (), is an Australian actor. He began his career in the sketch-comedy series '' Full Frontal'' before gaining notice in the comedy drama '' The Castle'' (1997) and the biographical crime film '' Chopper'' (2000). After a decade of roles in Australian television shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention for his performance in the war film '' Black Hawk Down'' (2001) and for playing Bruce Banner in the superhero film ''Hulk'' (2003). He played Hector in the war epic ''Troy'' (2004), and took a leading role in Steven Spielberg's historical thriller ''Munich'' (2005). In 2009, he played the villain Nero in the science-fiction film ''Star Trek'', which was a critical and commercial success. Bana continued to work steadily in the 2010s, portraying Lieutenant Commander Erik S. Kristensen in '' Lone Survivor'' (2013), and playing police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie in the horror film '' Delive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
