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THE RED HAND

Peter Temple

Stories, Reflections And The Last Appearance Of Jack Irish

Introduction by Michael Heyward

Australian fiction lost a titan when Peter Temple passed away in March 2018. The winner of five Ned Kelly Awards. The winner of the Crime Writers Association of the United Kingdom's Gold Dagger Award. Author of the only crime novel to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The South African who adopted Australia as his home and saw us more clearly than most who were born here. A literary giant.

The Red Hand is a tribute to Peter Temple and a reminder of what we've lost. It contains a sizeable chunk of what would have been the fifth Jack Irish novel, short stories, a film script, his brilliant book reviews, essays and autobiographical musings about Australian life – like this one: ‘A Nice Place to do Crime'.
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Published 2019-10-01 by Text Publishing

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"One of the world's finest crime writers." — The Times "He was to terse blokes with hard jobs and wounded souls what Proust was to memory. He made every sentence count and shot the stragglers." — Shane Maloney

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