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Silent Kill (novel)
''Silent Kill'' is 2014 Australian novel by Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ... featuring private detective Cliff Hardy. It was the 39th in the series. Premise Cliff Hardy is hired to be bodyguard of a politician. Reception The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote "Corris has always had his finger on the political pulse but never more so than in this Hardy outing, which manages to resonate both with the political impulses of a whistleblower in the Assange mode, and the more recent ICAC inquiry into government corruption in New South Wales. This is the best kind of crime fiction, holding a mirror up to the muddled times in which we live to reveal a not altogether flattering reflection." References {{reflist External links 2014 Australian novels Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Corris
Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing", particularly for his Cliff Hardy novels. Biography Corris' secondary school education was at Melbourne High School. He was a Bachelor level student at the University of Melbourne, then gained a Master of Arts in history at Monash University. He studied at the Australian National University where he was awarded a PhD in history on the topic of the South Seas Islander slave trade (Kanakas). He continued these studies as a university lecturer, but later became a journalist, being a literary editor of the ''National Times''. He recalled "I got sick of the literary editor shit. I got fucking sick of new books, beautiful new hardbacks flowing in every week in their dust covers, filling the cupboard up. For the first year or so I though ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Hardy (character)
Cliff Hardy is a fictional Australian private eye created by Peter Corris. He was first introduced in the 1980 novel '' The Dying Trade'' and featured in over 40 novels and short story collections. He was played by Bryan Brown in the 1983 film '' The Empty Beach''. Corris later recalled: It was really just to imitate Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald and see if I could. I’d tried a historical novel based on my PHD thesis and about 18 different publishers rejected it. So I had this idea. I’d been reading Chandler and MacDonald recreationally for years, and I thought, well, I’d try this. I felt like I really knew how they worked and what the formula was like and what changes you could make. I thought, Sydney, San Francisco, LA, I felt like there was a symbiosis there and figured, have a go at what you know you can write. Imitation was the stimulus. But after a few books, I felt I had an individual voice and the confidence to play around with the formula, say what I wanted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen And Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It became one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and established an Australian subsidiary in 1976. In 1990 Allen & Unwin was sold to HarperCollins, and the Australian branch was the subject of a management buy-out. George Allen & Unwin in the UK George Allen & Sons was established in 1871 by George Allen, with the backing of John Ruskin, becoming George Allen & Co. Ltd. in 1911 when it merged with Swan Sonnenschein and then George Allen & Unwin on 4 August 1914 as a result of Stanley Unwin's purchase of a controlling interest. Frank Arthur Mumby and Frances Helena Swan Stallybrass, Unwin's son Rayner S. Unwin and his nephew Philip helped him to run the company, which published works by Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, Roald Dahl, Lancelot Hogben and Thor Heyerdahl. It became well known as J. R. R. Tolkien's pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dunbar Case
''The Dunbar Case'' is 2013 Australian novel by Peter Corris featuring private detective Cliff Hardy. Premise Cliff Hardy is hired by an academic to find the ancesator of a man connected with the Dunbar wreck. Reception The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote "Family feuds, career criminals, missing diamonds, buried treasure, attractive (older) women: there's never, ever a dull moment and Corris keeps it moving in his lively, economical prose. Like the crime meister that he is, Corris makes it all appear so easy." See also * 2013 in Australian literature This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2013. Events * James Ley (literary critic), James Ley launches the ''Sydney Review of Books'' to provide "an opportunity for Australia's crit ... References {{reflist External links 2013 Australian novels Australian crime novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gun Control (novel)
''Gun Control'' is 2015 Australian novel by Peter Corris Peter Robert Corris (8 May 1942 – 30 August 2018) was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-w ... featuring private detective Cliff Hardy. It was the 40th in the series. Reception The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' wrote that in the novel "we're off to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, about which Hardy 'like most Sydneysiders', is ambivalent: 'We're glad they're there but, with snow in the winter, searing heat in the summer and no significant sports venues, we feel it's a kind of foreign territory to be visited very selectively.' These are the kinds of passing comments about people and place that have always been the real delight of these books." References {{reflist External links 2015 Australian novels Australian crime novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Australian Novels
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