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Kerry Greenwood
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (17 June 1954 – 26 March 2025) was an Australian author and lawyer. She wrote many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular television series '' Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries''. She wrote mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel ''The Three-Pronged Dagger''. Early life and education Greenwood was born on 17 June 1954. She grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, and lived most of her life in the Inner West. She attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School), Maribyrnong College and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts (English) and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979. Whilst at university, Greenwood worked at a women's refuge. Career In 1982, Greenw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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2020 Australia Day Honours
The 2020 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2020 by the Governor General of Australia, David Hurley. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, the first announced to coincide with Australia Day (26 January), with the other being the Queen's Birthday Honours, which are announced on the second Monday in June. Order of Australia Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) General Division * Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Joan Beazley, – For eminent service to the people of New South Wales, particularly through leadership roles in the judiciary, and as a mentor of young women lawyers. * Professor Margaret Elaine Gardner, – For eminent service to tertiary education through leadership and innovation in teaching and learning, research and financial sustainability. * The Hon. Chief Justice Catherine Ena H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
Seven Network (stylised 7Network, and commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is an Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of the five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it was the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programming—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2024, Seven Network is the highest-rated television network nationally, in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries
''Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries'' (also stylised as ''Ms Fisher's MODern Murder Mysteries'') is an Australian television drama series which began screening on the Seven Network on 21 February 2019. The series is a spin-off of the drama series ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'', which was based on author Kerry Greenwood's series of Phryne Fisher detective novels. Set in Melbourne in the mid-1960s, ''Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries'' revolves around the personal and professional life of Peregrine Fisher, daughter of Phryne’s half sister Annabelle (a result of an affair that Phryne’s father had), who inherits a fortune when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine sets out to become a world-class private detective in her own right, guided by a group of exceptional women in The Adventuresses' Club, of which her aunt was also a member. The series is produced by Beth Frey and directed by Fiona Banks, with Deb Cox, Samantha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Fisher And The Crypt Of Tears
''Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears'' is a 2020 Australian mystery adventure film directed by Tony Tilse and starring Essie Davis as Phryne Fisher. It is based on the ''Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' television series and the series of Phryne Fisher novels written by Kerry Greenwood. Plot Phryne Fisher helps to rescue a young Bedouin girl called Shirin from imprisonment in 1920s Jerusalem. While doing so she is suspected of having died. Shirin is reunited with her uncle Sheikh Kahlil Abbas and they travel to Lofthouse Manor in England where a memorial is being held for Miss Fisher by her friends Lord and Lady Lofthouse. DI Jack Robinson travels to England from Australia to attend the memorial and is just about to deliver her eulogy when Miss Fisher arrives in her biplane. Shirin discusses with Miss Fisher about how she came to be in Jerusalem. As a child, a sandstorm had wiped out her village and she was the only survivor, having been rescued by a mysterious stranger. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Sequeira
Christopher Sequeira (also published as Chris G.C. Sequeira, Christopher G.C. Sequeira, C.G.C. Sequeira) is a Sydney-based Australian editor, writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, super-hero) and mystery realms. His published work includes poetry, prose (especially short fiction), and comic-book scripts. Sequeira's creator-owned work includes "Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective" (with co-creators Dave Elsey and Philip Cornell), ''Pulse of Darkness'', ''Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective'' and ''The Borderlander and SuperAustralians.'' He has also written for American publishers, notably contributing a Dazzler story, "I'm Gonna Stake You, Sucka" in ''X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – X-Men vs. Vampires'' No. 1. This story also features a character, Sheba Sugarfangs, invented by Sequeira for Marvel Comics. 1n 2023 he wrote ''"''Star Trek Holoween" for IDW. In 2010 Sequeira released ''Pulse of Darkness: The Vampir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janeen Webb
Janeen Webb (''née'' Pemberton) is an Australian writer, critic and editor, working mainly in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Biography The daughter of a Second World War Australian Army commando and salesman, Webb was brought up in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown and was educated at local schools. She then studied at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she gained a Ph.D. in literature in 1983. For many years, she taught at the Institute of Catholic Education (later part of the Australian Catholic University) in Melbourne, Victoria where she was Associate Professor and Reader in literature. From 1987 to 1991, Webb was a member of the editorial collective of ''Australian Science Fiction Review: Second Series'', and is currently on the advisory board of ''Science Fiction Studies''. She is perhaps best known for her co-editorship, with her second husband, Jack Dann, of a major anthology of Australian science fiction and fantasy, '' Dreaming Down-Und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dann
Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, as well as an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, the majority being as editor or co-editor of story anthologies in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He has published nine novels, numerous shorter works of fiction, essays, and poetry, and his books have been translated into thirteen languages. His work, which includes fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, and historical and alternative history genres, has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Lewis Carroll, J. G. Ballard, and Philip K. Dick. Life and career Early life Jack Dann was born to a Jewish family in New York State in 1945 and grew up in Johnson City, New York. His father was an attorney and a judge. Dann describes himself as having been "a troublesome child in a very small town", and in his teens associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming Down-Under
''Dreaming Down-Under'' is a 1998 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jack Dann and Janeen Webb. Publishing history ''Dreaming Down-Under'' was first published in Australia in November 1998 by Voyager Books in trade paperback format. In 1999 and 2000 it was republished as two separate volumes. It was released in the United Kingdom by Swift Publishers in 2000 and in the United States by Tor Books in hardback and paperback formats in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Response ''Dreaming Down-Under'' won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for best anthology and the 1999 Ditmar Award for best Australian magazine or anthology. It was also a shortlist nominee for the 1998 Aurealis Award's Peter McNamara Conveners' Award for Excellence and it finished 16th out of 20 in the Locus Award for Best Anthology. The 1999 Ditmar Award for Best Short Fiction had six shortlist nominees all of which were taken from ''Dreaming Down-Under'': "The Marsh Runners" by Paul Brandon, "Dream Until God Burn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Broken Wheel
''The Broken Wheel'' is a 1996 young adult science fiction novel by Kerry Greenwood Kerry Isabelle Greenwood (17 June 1954 – 26 March 2025) was an Australian author and lawyer. She wrote many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted a .... Background ''The Broken Wheel'' was first published in Australia in 1996 by Moonstone in paperback format. It won in a tie situation with Hillary Bell's '' Mirror, Mirror'' the 1996 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. Plot summary After an apocalyptic event, the survivors have formed into groups. These include the Travellers, who trade in small goods; the medievalists in the enclave Thorngard; the Tribe, a loose gathering of nomads; and in the city the Breakers, who destroy every machine they find, blaming the machines for the disaster. Sarah, a child of the Breakers, joins with the Travellers in an attempt to save the world from destr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death At Victoria Dock
''Death at Victoria Dock'' is a crime novel by Kerry Greenwood, first published in 1992 in Australia by McPhee Gribble. It is the fourth novel featuring Phryne Fisher. Plot introduction The Honourable Phryne Fisher is on her way home, driving past Victoria Docks in Melbourne, late evening when a shot shatters her windshield. She stops, to find a man wearing an anarchist tattoo, lying on the road, bleeding. He dies before she can get medical help. Along with her companion and maid, Dorothy 'Dot' Williams, and her friends, Bert and Cec, she attempts to solve the mystery of who shot and killed this man. Along the way she meets and is attracted to an anarchist with a strange past, who goes by the name of Peter Smith. Phryne and her friends assist Inspector Jack Robinson of the Melbourne Police to solve the murder, encountering, in the process, a bank robbing and an abduction. Characters Recurring characters * The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher: a wealthy private detective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Too High
Flying Too High is a crime novel by Australian author Kerry Greenwood, and was published in 1990 by Penguin Books. It is the second novel by Kerry Greenwood that features the fictional detective Miss Phryne Fisher. Introduction ''Flying Too High'', set in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920s, features fictional detective Phryne Fisher as she attempts to resolve a homicide case as well as solve the kidnapping of a small child. She is engaged by a woman who fears that her hot-tempered son, an aviation instructor, will kill his own father over a business dispute. Phryne first disarms the son by demonstrating her excellent flying skills and then advises him to calmly resolve the dispute with his father. Despite this warning, the father is murdered soon after, and Phryne, along with her friends, Cec and Bert, her maid, Dot and fellow pilot Bunji Ross, attempt to help Melbourne's Detective Inspector Jack Robinson solve the crime. In addition, Phryne looks into a case of kidnapping con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
