Praise for 36 Streets
Breaking out the begging bowl and approaching successful authors for a book quote was one of my least favourite parts of finalising 36 Streets. In fact I hated it. “Hey, you don’t really know me, but could I …
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Three Australian Noirs: Dancing Home, Gunshine State, The Rules of Backyard Cricket
Gunshine State
Fast-paced thriller Gunshine State, by Andrew Nette, opens with a heist gone wrong and heads downhill from there.
Gary Chance is a former soldier, sometime bouncer, and generally unsuccessful crook. Whether through back luck or bad choice …
A Great Silence: Defining Australian Noir
Introduction
Sunshine Noir delivers social realism rather than the stylized realism of US noir. Grit is embedded under the fingernails, not merely sprinkled around the scene as an aesthetic choice. Sunshine Noir takes place in the outback under an unblinking …