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'Hours after rejecting the Corrowa People's native title claim on Brisbane's Meston Park, Justice Bruce Brosnan is brutally murdered in his home. Days later, lawyers against the claim are also found dead.
Aboriginal people were once prohibited from entering Brisbane's city limits at night, and Meston Park stood on the boundary. The Corrowa's matriarch, Ethel Cobb, is convinced the murders are the work of an ancient assassin who has returned to destroy the boundary, but Aboriginal lawyer Miranda Eversely isn't so sure.
When the Premier is kidnapped, the pressure to find the killer intensifies ... While the investigation forces Detective Sergeant Jason Matthews to confront his buried heritage, Miranda battles a sense of personal failure at the Corrowa's defeat. How far will it take her to the edge of self-destruction?' Source: www.uqp.com.au/ (Sighted 25/03/2011).
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Dedication: For the real-life Charlie Eversleys.
Renaissance men and women.
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“Judicial Killings – That’s a Rarity in Australia” : Detection, Identity and Representation in Nicole Watson’s The Boundary
2022
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criticism
— Appears in: English Studies , vol. 103 no. 6 2022; (p. 821-836)'Through the lens of Australian author Nicole Watson’s The Boundary this paper will consider the representation of the crime novel, both traditional detection (Christie, Doyle) and the modernist tradition, and how that illuminates social realities. Drawing from critical race theory, and examining the embedded logic of settler colonialism, the paper connects the form of the novel to Watson’s social and legal critique, questioning of the liminality of the legal/illegal, ethical/unethical, and its framing. At stake in the novel is the preservation of an ethnic identity, an uncorrupted natural landscape, and faith in both a political and law enforcement system in which corruption and personal entanglements seem to play as great a role as ethics and integrity. At stake in the paper is how the novel can intervene in social and political debates on Aboriginal, racial, and ethical terms, preserving both personal identity and its contingent effects in protecting the land.' (Introduction)
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Nicole Watson : The Boundary
2012
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— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2012;
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Crossing The Boundary : Raising the Issues We Prefer to Ignore
2011
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— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 23 no. 1 & 2 2011;
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Genre Everything
2011
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Brisbane Given a Dark Twist
2011
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 - 4 September 2011; (p. 22)
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Nicole Watson Releases The Boundary
2011
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— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 3 March vol. 10 no. 220 2011; (p. 45)
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
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review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May vol. 90 no. 8 2011; (p. 41)
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Fiction
2011
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review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 28 May 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Well Read
2011
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 July 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of End of the Night Girl 2007 single work novel ; The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Genre Everything
2011
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of The Boundary 2009 single work novel -
Fourth Time Lucky for Nicole Watson
2009
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 9 September 2009; (p. 7) -
Unaipon Award for Legal Eagle
2009
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 9 September no. 459 2009; (p. 14) -
Another Literary Award for Another Talented Watson
2009
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— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 17 September vol. 8 no. 186 2009; (p. 25) -
Breakthrough with the Boundary
2009
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— Appears in: Namalata Thusi , Summer no. 8 2009; (p. 4) -
Brisbane Given a Dark Twist
2011
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 - 4 September 2011; (p. 22)
Awards
- 2012 Shortlisted Commonwealth Book Prize
- 2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Indigenous Writing
- 2012 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2009 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Unpublished Indigenous Writer : David Unaipon Award