''Last Drinks'' is a 2000
Ned Kelly Award
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime
True crime is a genre of non-fiction work in which an author examines a crime, including d ...
-winning novel by the Australian author
Andrew McGahan.
Synopsis
Ten years after the
Fitzgerald Inquiry
The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct (the Fitzgerald Inquiry; 1987–1989) into Queensland Police corruption was a judicial inquiry presided over by Tony Fitzgerald QC. The inquiry resulted ...
into Queensland police, disgraced journalist George Verney hears of the death of an estranged friend in the remote town George fled to from Brisbane after the inquiry. George travels back to Brisbane to help arrange the funeral, and to try to find out what caused his friend's death, confronting memories and loose ends from his past.
Awards
*
Ned Kelly Awards
The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ...
for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2001: winner
Notes
* Author's note: This is a work of fiction. While obviously inspired to some degree by the Fitzgerald inquiry and its era in Queensland, this is not, even for a moment, an historic or factual version of those times. In particular, no character in this book should be mistaken for any actual person, living or dead.
* A stage version, adapted by Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's
La Boite Theatre in August 2006.
Reviews
* "Aussiereviews
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References
Australian crime novels
2000 Australian novels
Ned Kelly Award–winning works
Novels set in Brisbane
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