Events, Signings & Gatherings

Peter Corris' first novel was published in 1980 and he has been credited with reviving the fully-fledged Australian crime novel with local settings and reference points and with a series character firmly rooted in Australian culture — Cliff Hardy.

Peter has recently released two new novels, Wishart’s Quest (Press On 2010), and another in the Cliff Hardy series, Torn Apart (Allen & Unwin 2010).

Here’s what’s being said about both titles.

Wishart’s Quest

Wishart’s Quest is Peter Corris’ sixty-second work of fiction. In a New England country town, academic Tom Wishart is struck by an
amateur painting in the local art gallery. It looks just like him. Wishart is a foundling who knows nothing about his parents. This uncanny resemblance sets him on a quest to discover his origins. As the search reaches back in time, the turbulent, shadowy lives of Paul Bushell, son of the squattocracy and disgraced Vietnam deserter, and Diana Saunders, vanished Aboriginal sportswoman, come into view and are played out. Could these be his parents? How and why was he abandoned? The trail leads to Sydney, Vietnam, Manila and Hong Kong, until the answers are found in a isolated place in the Blue Mountains. Corris's portrayals of Australia stand out uniquely – forceful, hard–driven, compassionate. – James Ellroy

Peter Corris is undoubtedly one of Australia’s top storytellers. - Sunday Mail

Torn Apart

Corris’s writing has developed into a clear, efficient medium. It doesn’t draw attention to itself. It knows the requirements of the genre. He isn’t moaning along with Ian Rankin and Robert Harris that crime writing is not taken seriously as High Art. Crime fiction is not High Art. It is entertainment, and Corris is an accomplished and compelling entertainer…

He has captured a particular ambience of both inner city and rich suburban Sydney and made it his own, a familiar, expected and welcome milieu. He has done for Sydney what Raymond Chandler and Robert Crais have done for Los Angeles, Ross Macdonald for Santa Barbara, and Robert B. Parker for Boston. It is easy to underestimate the creative skill here. Yes, those environments exist. The skill lies in evoking what is characteristic, defining, memorable, in the selection and emphasis. — Michael Wilding

Corris is a tried and true crime writer. Until you’ve read the Cliff Hardy series, you can’t call yourself an aficionado of Aussie detective fiction. – The Age

You can contact Peter Corris via his website http://www.petercorris.net

Irina will be interviewing Peter at

Leichhardt Library
23 Norton Street (in the Forum) Leichhardt
6.30pm, Thursday 4 March 2010
No entry fee. Light refreshments will be served
Wishart’s Quest (exclusive limited edition) and Torn Apart (Allen &
Unwin 2010) will be available for purchase at this event.

If you wish to attend this event, please RSVP to Irina Dunn on irinadid@ozemail.com.au.

And again at
Balmain Library
370 Darling Street Balmain
6.30pm, Tuesday 13 April 2010

No entry fee. Light refreshments will be served
Wishart’s Quest (exclusive limited edition) and Torn Apart (Allen & Unwin 2010) will be available for purchase at this event.

If you wish to attend this event, please RSVP to Irina Dunn on irinadid@ozemail.com.au.

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Peter Corris' first novel was published in 1980 and he has been credited with reviving the fully-fledged Australian crime novel with local settings and reference points and with a series character firmly rooted in Australian culture — Cliff Hardy.

Peter has recently released two new novels, Wishart’s Quest (Press On 2010), and another in the Cliff Hardy series, Torn Apart (Allen & Unwin 2010).

Here’s what’s being said about both titles.

Wishart’s Quest

Wishart’s Quest is Peter Corris’ sixty-second work of fiction. In a New England country town, academic Tom Wishart is struck by an
amateur painting in the local art gallery. It looks just like him. Wishart is a foundling who knows nothing about his parents. This uncanny resemblance sets him on a quest to discover his origins. As the search reaches back in time, the turbulent, shadowy lives of Paul Bushell, son of the squattocracy and disgraced Vietnam deserter, and Diana Saunders, vanished Aboriginal sportswoman, come into view and are played out. Could these be his parents? How and why was he abandoned? The trail leads to Sydney, Vietnam, Manila and Hong Kong, until the answers are found in a isolated place in the Blue Mountains. Corris's portrayals of Australia stand out uniquely – forceful, hard–driven, compassionate. – James Ellroy

Peter Corris is undoubtedly one of Australia’s top storytellers. - Sunday Mail

Torn Apart

Corris’s writing has developed into a clear, efficient medium. It doesn’t draw attention to itself. It knows the requirements of the genre. He isn’t moaning along with Ian Rankin and Robert Harris that crime writing is not taken seriously as High Art. Crime fiction is not High Art. It is entertainment, and Corris is an accomplished and compelling entertainer…

He has captured a particular ambience of both inner city and rich suburban Sydney and made it his own, a familiar, expected and welcome milieu. He has done for Sydney what Raymond Chandler and Robert Crais have done for Los Angeles, Ross Macdonald for Santa Barbara, and Robert B. Parker for Boston. It is easy to underestimate the creative skill here. Yes, those environments exist. The skill lies in evoking what is characteristic, defining, memorable, in the selection and emphasis. — Michael Wilding

Corris is a tried and true crime writer. Until you’ve read the Cliff Hardy series, you can’t call yourself an aficionado of Aussie detective fiction. – The Age

You can contact Peter Corris via his website http://www.petercorris.net

Irina will be interviewing Peter at

Leichhardt Library
23 Norton Street (in the Forum) Leichhardt
6.30pm, Thursday 4 March 2010
No entry fee. Light refreshments will be served
Wishart’s Quest (exclusive limited edition) and Torn Apart (Allen &
Unwin 2010) will be available for purchase at this event.

If you wish to attend this event, please RSVP to Irina Dunn on irinadid@ozemail.com.au.

And again at
Balmain Library
370 Darling Street Balmain
6.30pm, Tuesday 13 April 2010

No entry fee. Light refreshments will be served
Wishart’s Quest (exclusive limited edition) and Torn Apart (Allen & Unwin 2010) will be available for purchase at this event.

If you wish to attend this event, please RSVP to Irina Dunn on irinadid@ozemail.com.au.

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Let's hear a collective YOO HOOOO:

Thrill City is due for release in June this year!

Simone Kirsch, sometime stripper, sleuth and bad girl has finally opened her detective agency when crime writer Nick Austin walks through the door. He’s offering top dollar just to follow her around for a few days as background research for his next novel. It’s a sweet gig, until Nick, his ex-wife and her new lover all appear on the same panel at a writer’s festival. The next day Nick’s ex is found brutally murdered and he disappears, leaving Simone with more trouble than she can handle. As she fights to uncover the truth she encounters embittered authors, violent bikies, amoral investment bankers and a meth-crazed psycho with literary ambitions - all the while juggling her pregnant, hormonal, sidekick; a cop-boyfriend who wants her to stop stripping; and a bad case of the hots for Alex: his soon-to-be-married best-friend.

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Talking about the challenges  of writing crime for 'tweens (8-11). With Derek Guille and Rochelle Jackson.
 
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