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'PETER Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews.
'When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The Red Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of Valentine’s Day, an improbably delightful story about an ailing country football club, which in 2007 was adapted for television by the ABC. Also included are his short fiction, his reflections on the Australian idiom, a handful of autobiographical fragments and a selection of his brilliant book reviews.
'Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet’s ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Gone, but Not Forgotten
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 41)
— Review of See You at the Toxteth 2019 selected work essay short story biography ; The Red Hand 2019 selected work screenplay extract short story review essay 'Two of the greatest Australian crime writers died within six months of each other in 2018. Peter Temple authored nine novels, four of which featured roustabout Melbourne private detective Jack Irish, and one of which, Truth, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2010. Temple died on 8 March 2018, aged seventy-one. Peter Corris was more prolific, writing a staggering eighty-eight books across his career, including historical fiction, biography, sport, and Pacific history. Forty-two of those highlighted the travails of punchy Sydney P.I. Cliff Hardy. Corris died on 30 August 2018, seventy-six and virtually blind.' (Introduction) -
The Peters’ Principles
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 October 2019; (p. 25)
— Review of The Red Hand 2019 selected work screenplay extract short story review essay ; See You at the Toxteth 2019 selected work essay short story biography'The two Great Peters of Australian crime fiction — Temple and Corris — died within six months of one another last year. Each has a posthumous collection of shorter works published for the Christmas market: Temple’s The Red Hand and Corris’s See You at the Toxteth.' (Introduction)
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The Peters’ Principles
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 October 2019; (p. 25)
— Review of The Red Hand 2019 selected work screenplay extract short story review essay ; See You at the Toxteth 2019 selected work essay short story biography'The two Great Peters of Australian crime fiction — Temple and Corris — died within six months of one another last year. Each has a posthumous collection of shorter works published for the Christmas market: Temple’s The Red Hand and Corris’s See You at the Toxteth.' (Introduction)
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Gone, but Not Forgotten
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 418 2020; (p. 41)
— Review of See You at the Toxteth 2019 selected work essay short story biography ; The Red Hand 2019 selected work screenplay extract short story review essay 'Two of the greatest Australian crime writers died within six months of each other in 2018. Peter Temple authored nine novels, four of which featured roustabout Melbourne private detective Jack Irish, and one of which, Truth, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2010. Temple died on 8 March 2018, aged seventy-one. Peter Corris was more prolific, writing a staggering eighty-eight books across his career, including historical fiction, biography, sport, and Pacific history. Forty-two of those highlighted the travails of punchy Sydney P.I. Cliff Hardy. Corris died on 30 August 2018, seventy-six and virtually blind.' (Introduction)
