CWA Dagger Award Winners - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T08:37:59Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/537324:Topic:52820?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A53077&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIt was Peter Temples Night
A…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-06:537324:Comment:530772007-07-06T19:30:23.207ZAlihttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/alikarim
It was Peter Temples Night<br />
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Ali
It was Peter Temples Night<br />
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Ali I can't begin to tell you how…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2007-07-05:537324:Comment:528312007-07-05T23:01:59.011ZKaren from AustCrimehttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/austcrimefiction
I can't begin to tell you how thrilled I am about this result. The Broken Shore is a magnificently Australian novel - it was such a joy to read something that evokes the place and the people so strongly, and does that in a good, real, believable story that has some notional feeling of the reality of the communities in which it is set.<br />
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At the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2005 there was a general buzz around about this book - helped in not some small measure by John Harvey who took every chance…
I can't begin to tell you how thrilled I am about this result. The Broken Shore is a magnificently Australian novel - it was such a joy to read something that evokes the place and the people so strongly, and does that in a good, real, believable story that has some notional feeling of the reality of the communities in which it is set.<br />
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At the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2005 there was a general buzz around about this book - helped in not some small measure by John Harvey who took every chance he could to mention that he had just read it, and how highly he regarded it. Ever since that festival the "buzz" has been getting louder and louder.<br />
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You have no idea the happy dancing that's going on around here. No doubt Mr Temple will be gracious, but he bloody well earned this!