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Clandestine Press Launch - A New Kind of Death by Alison Goodman

Submitted by Karen on

Book Information
Author Name: 
Alison Goodman
Book Title: 
A New Kind of Death
Dates: 
Thu, 12/13/2012 - 06:30 to 08:00

Clan Destine Press is thrilled to announce

the official Melbourne launch of Alison Goodman's first crime novel A New Kind of Death.


The Rising Sun Hotel
2 Raglan Street, South Melbourne
6.30 to 8.00pm Thursday 13th December 2012
Come along for a Christmas drink on us!
(Finger food will be served)

Alison Goodman

Submitted by Karen on

Author Information
Goodman, Alison

About the Author

Alison is the author of Singing the Dogstar Blues, a science-fiction comedy thriller, which won an Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, was listed as a Children's Book Council Notable Book, and was shortlisted for the 1999 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. In 2003 it was also published in the UK, Germany and the US and was recently listed as an American Library Association Best Young Adult Book of 2004.

Shadow Alley

Submitted by Karen on

Author's Home Country: 
Australia
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Short Stories
Young Adult

Blurb from the book

Nine tautly plotted stories of crime and detection ranging from the darkly dangerous to the frankly comical.  All with young adult central characters - some authors have taken their own characters back to their childhood - others have created completely new characters.

ISBN: 
1862912408

SHADOW ALLEY - Lucy Sussex

Author Information
Book Title: 
Shadow Alley
Author Name: 
Lucy Sussex
Kerry Greenwood
Jennifer Rowe
Garry Disher
Susan Geason
Allan Baillie
Alison Goodman
Claire Carmichael
David McRobbie
Jenny Pausacker
Author's Home Country: 
Australia
ISBN: 
1862912408
Categorisation
Category: 
Crime Fiction
Sub Genre: 
Short Stories
Young Adult
Publisher: 
Omnibus Books
Year of Publication: 
1995
Book Review: 

First published in 1995, Shadow Alley is a compilation of short crime stories written around the premise of detectives when they were teenagers.
 
A majority of the authors stuck to this premise, whereas some chose instead to write about teenage characters within the stories themselves.
 
Kerry Greenwood takes Phryne Fisher back to her boarding school days in England, right after her father has inherited the title that makes her an "Hon". AN OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION is set during WWII and Phryne is an adventurous schoolgirl already very dismissive of authority and so called "hierarchy".
 
In FORBIDDEN FRUIT, Jennifer Rowe has Verity Birdwood recounting the story of the death of one of her childhood neighbours and how, as a young child, she was able to provide the clues that correctly identified the perpetrator.
 
Garry Disher introduces a young girl in a difficult position, using her wits when trapped in a building by corrupt police in WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED.
 
In TOTALLY DEVOTED, Susan Geason has an unnamed private detective tracking down a young girl who has suddenly gone missing in Kings Cross.
 
Allan Baillie takes great liberties with the premise in the very amusing MURDER AT CROCKUS FLAT.
 
THE TERRIFIC TWO GETS BUSTED by Alison Goodman is a tale of peer pressure and right versus wrong.
 
Claire Carmichael uses GET JACK to explore the feelings of guilt and retribution that are left when a hit run driver kills one friend and leaves the other gravely injured.
 
SQUAT by David McRobbie uses homelessness to provide a brief glimpse of sheer desperation to survive and the cruelty of manipulation of other people's circumstances.
 
Jenny Pausacker uses ANOTHER DAY IN HELL to highlight snobbery and pretension in private school petty power games.
 
All in all, this is a great anthology for teenagers. Even though it's now over 10 years old, the subject matter is current. If you can get hold of a copy of this it's a great series of stories for boys or girls.
 
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