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'Martin Frobisher has been beating close family members about the head with an epergne. Frobisher, successful publisher and community leader, is in the City Remand Centre, awaiting trial for murder. What shadow has fallen across the comfortable lives of Frobisher, his ambitious wife Coralie and her flaky sister Madeleine? What has led a cultivated and reflective man, known to shoo spiders and earwigs out of the harm's way, to such reckless acts of violence?
'With the prospect of imprisonment for the term of his natural life, can Frobisher and his research assistant Petra find guidance in the life and fortunes of a brilliant young Englishman, marooned in Australia, "the land of vulgarity and mob rule" more than a century earlier, and obsessed with the darker moments in the nation's history? Why does Frobisher appear to care more, in the end, about the life of Marcus Clarke than he does about his own?' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: For Sheila
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Works about this Work
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Misdirection and the Power of the Story
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 26 no. 1 2012; (p. 107-108)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel -
The Year's Work in Fiction : 2010-2011
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 56 no. 1 2011; (p. 167-188)
— Review of Equator : A Novel 2010 single work novel ; Rocks in the Belly 2010 single work novel ; Traitor 2010 single work novel ; The Vintage and the Gleaning 2008 single work novel ; The Grand Hotel : A Novel 2010 single work novel ; What Is Left Over, After 2008 single work novel ; The Best Australian Stories 2010 2010 anthology short story extract ; Five Bells 2011 single work novel ; The Mary Smokes Boys 2010 single work novel ; Glissando : A Melodrama 2010 single work novel ; Below the Styx 2010 single work novel ; Indelible Ink 2010 single work novel ; When Colts Ran 2010 single work novel ; Bereft 2010 single work novel ; Time's Long Ruin : A Novel 2008 single work novel ; The Legacy 2010 single work novel ; That Deadman Dance 2010 single work novel -
Creative Writing in the ERA Era : A New Research Exercise
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 7 2010; 'In 2009 the Australian government, through the Australian Research Council (ARC), changed the way it assesses research quality in Australian universities. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative introduced new processes for the recognition, collection and evaluation of research, which included—for the first time—assessment of creative works as research. For many in the Creative and Performing Arts areas of Australian tertiary education, this signalled the achievement of a set of goals laid down in 1998 with the Strand Report (Strand 1998). The recognition of creative production as research had been, moreover, a project in various Australian university creative departments for at least a decade prior to Strand, going back as far as the rationales supporting the first research doctorates in the creative arts in the 1980s.' (p. 1) -
The Clarke of the Works
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 April 2010; (p. 27)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel -
Once More, Without Feeling
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 April 2010; (p. 34)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel
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Riddles Among the Shadows
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 February 2010; (p. 12)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel -
Mysteries of the Epergne
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 319 2010; (p. 18)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel -
Books
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 6 March 2010; (p. 36-37)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel ; Lillian Roxon : Mother of Rock 2002 single work biography ; The Devil's Tears 2010 single work novel -
For the Term of His Haute Bourgeois Life
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of Below the Styx 2010 single work novel -
Well Read
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 March 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Gravel 2010 selected work short story ; Below the Styx 2010 single work novel -
Sweet Seduction
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , February no. 360 2010; (p. 27) -
Creative Writing in the ERA Era : A New Research Exercise
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Special Issue Website Series , October no. 7 2010; 'In 2009 the Australian government, through the Australian Research Council (ARC), changed the way it assesses research quality in Australian universities. The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative introduced new processes for the recognition, collection and evaluation of research, which included—for the first time—assessment of creative works as research. For many in the Creative and Performing Arts areas of Australian tertiary education, this signalled the achievement of a set of goals laid down in 1998 with the Strand Report (Strand 1998). The recognition of creative production as research had been, moreover, a project in various Australian university creative departments for at least a decade prior to Strand, going back as far as the rationales supporting the first research doctorates in the creative arts in the 1980s.' (p. 1)