Inez Baranay
Inez Baranay is the author of Between Careers, Sheila Power, The Edge of Bali and Neem Dreams. With the Tiger, her ninth book, is a contemporary take on Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge.
Inez Baranay is very correct and vivid in her portrayal of India's flavours of vadai, coffee and the music season. She exposes the experiences India offers foreigners seeking 'nirvana.' Deccan Herald
With The Tiger goes some way in destroying the notion that classics are best left untouched. There is no questioning her ability as a writer of prose and a storyteller. DNA (Mumbai)
Takes its impressions from the master storyteller but its location in a different time and place allows for a fresh interpretation of the Westerner's experiences of India. Asian Age
A racy read, this is a worthy addition to your literary vocabulary. Sahara Times
Elegant and intricate prose. The Statesman
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Peter Corris
Wishart’s Quest is Peter Corris’ sixtieth work of fiction. He has written thirty-three books featuring Sydney private detective Cliff Hardy, as well as the espionage, comic and the historical novels, The Winning Side, The Gulliver Fortune, Naismith’s Dominion, The Brothers Craft, Wimmera Gold, and The Journal of Fletcher Christian.
Corris's portrayals of Australia stand out uniquely – forceful, hard–driven, compassionate. James Ellroy
I don’t know how many Cliff Hardy novels there are, but there aren’t enough. Kerry Greenwood Sydney Morning Herald
Hardy is a wonderful creation still, under Corris’s magisterial narrative control, capable of those odd echoes and resonances, the elegiac interludes that characterise the best crime writing. Graeme Blundell Weekend Australian
There has been no more efficient, entertaining and amusing writer of detective thrillers in Australia than Peter Corris. The Age
Hardy has grown into a vulnerable and engaging human being . . . Cheap motels are his milieu. Weekend Australian
Cliff Hardy has all the virtues. He is competent, tough and has no illusions about anything. New York Times Book Review
I admire your gift as a story teller, the creation of human beings. Write more. Manning Clarke
Peter Corris is undoubtedly one of Australia’s top storytellers. The Brothers Craft is a substantial and compelling read. Sunday Mail
| Also by Peter Corris | |
| The Empty Beach Master’s Mates Taking Care of Business The Coast Road Saving Billie The Undertow |
Appeal Denied The Big Score Open File Deep Water Torn Apart |
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Phillip Edmonds
His best shows a very talented writer indeed. Rosemary Creswell Nation Review
Phillip Edmonds is a writer gifted with a particularly dry, sardonic wit. His cynicism is matched only by the quality of his prose… not a word is wasted. This capacity to condense thought into brief, coherent prose lends itself to displaying the gut feeling behind Edmonds’ writing. John Schauble Melbourne Times
Phillip Edmonds has written stories of great charm and skill - Review of Best Stories under the Sun - eds Michael Wilding & David Myers. Michael Williams Australian Book Review
It is the writer’s attempt to avoid the cheapness of facile talk and the desire to exercise care with words which gives this collection a distinctive, and, at times, impressive voice. Inprint magazine
| Also by Phillip Edmonds | |
| Big Boys Don’t let me fall Locals Everybody used to know one another |
A Station on Track A Sense of Place (editor) Emerge - New Australian writing (co-editor with Dominique Wilson) |
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Ross Fitzgerald
Well-known Australian writer, broadcaster, historian and political commentator, Ross Fitzgerald writes a regular column for The Australian newspaper and for The Spectator Australia, reviews for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Weekend Australian and regularly appears on ABC Radio, ABC TV, and on Channel 7. He is currently a member of the New South Wales State Parole Authority, the New South Wales Heritage Council, the Administrative Decisions Tribunal and the NSW Government Expert Advisory Group on Drugs and Alcohol. He is also Emeritus Professor in History and Politics at Griffith University, Brisbane and Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Sydney.
He has published thirty-one books, including three previous Grafton Everest novels, Pushed from the Wings: An Entertainment, All About Anthrax, and Busy in the Fog: Further Adventures of Grafton Everest. His non-fiction includes The Footy Club, The Greatest Game, 'Red Ted': The Life of E.G. Theodore, The Pope's Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split, the co-authored Made in Queensland: A New History, and Growing Old (Dis)Gracefully: 35 Australians Reflect on Life over 50, co edited with his wife Lyndal Moor.
In Fools' Paradise Grafton Everest climbs one of literatures' great heights. No oxygen required. No laughing gas. Austen Tayshus
Grafton Everest is a wonderful creation. Barry Humphries
Grafton Everest is brilliantly revolting. Thomas Shapcott
Grafton Everest ...a slob making Les Patterson seem a class act. Broad comedy, very rude and, for anyone liking gleefully scabrous humour, very funny as well. Daily Mail (London)
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Michael Wilding
If this was as much fun to write as it is to read, Michael Wilding must have enjoying writing The Prisoner of Mount Warning. A take on the secret world, mainstream and underground journalism, Writers’ Centres, the counter culture and much else, the book is a heady ride from Sydney to Byron Bay and the Gold Coast with Keith Plant, resting writer, who is investigating something that might have happened but perhaps not. Wilding has created a world both funny and creepy for Plant and the reader. Peter Corris
If, like most of us, you've begun to sense that life is not quite so simple, then maybe Wilding is exactly who you should be reading. David English Weekend Australian
The literature of challenge rather than the literature of escape. Chris de Bono Melbourne Herald
Wilding has steadily produced, for over thirty years, work of high and lasting merit. . . . To be a writer like Wilding is to be whole in a sense that should never be lost, not as long as the written word appears between the pages of a literary book. Don Graham Antipodes
Wilding's writing is rich in humour, fantasy and sharp social observation. Bruce Bennett Contemporary Novelists
National Treasure - Witty and genuinely funny. . . Wilding's zesty writing and sheer fun with his subject makes for a diverting read. But don't be conned. This is fiction with more truth than lies. Christopher Bantick Weekend Australian
Thoroughly enjoyable, sometimes hilarious. . . But it is not lightweight: it is tough, well-calculated, smoothly witty satire. Brian Matthews Australian Book Review
The Phallic Forest - Elegantly written and evocative. . . an undercurrent of sensitivity and searching for truths. Jean Bedford National Times
Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: the True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly - The story of Queen Elizabeth I's necromancer, John Dee, as transcribed from original documents interspersed with Michael Wilding's own words. A piece of esoterica designed to startle and delight the modern reader. Peter Porter The Economist Books of the Year
Wildest Dreams – Deserves to be thought of as a contemporary classic. Adrian Caesar An Australian Book of the Year
| Also by Michael Wilding | |
| Aspects of the Dying Process Living Together The Short Story Embassy The West Midland Underground Scenic Drive Marcus Clarke The Radical Reader (ed with Stephen Knight) The Tabloid Story Pocket Book (ed) The Phallic Forest Political Fictions Pacific Highway Reading the Signs The Paraguayan Experiment |
The Man of Slow Feeling Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution Under Saturn Great Climate Her Most Bizarre Sexual Experience Social Visions The Radical Tradition The Oxford Book of Australian Short Stories (ed) This is for You Book of the Reading Somewhere New: New and Selected Stories Studies in Classic Australian Fiction Wildest Dreams Raising Spirits, Making Gold and Swapping Wives: The True Adventures of Dr John Dee and Sir Edward Kelly Academia Nuts Best Stories Under the Sun 1 – 3 (ed with David Myers) Wild Amazement National Treasure |
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