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Born: Established: 2009 Rundle Mall/Rundle Street, Adelaide City, Adelaide, South Australia, ;
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1 4 y separately published work icon The Prisoner of Mount Warning Michael Wilding , Rundle Mall/Rundle Street : Press On , 2010 Z1572702 2010 single work novel

'What were the 60s & 70s really about?

How authentic were those stoned revolutionaries?

'What if it was all a fraud?

When small-press bibliographer Charles Dorritt recovers from a breakdown by doing a creative writing course, he announces he is publishing his memoirs of torture and sex-slavery at the hands of the security services.

Plant is called to lunch with the arts editor of a metropolitan broadsheet, life style journalist Angela Dark, and political speechwriter Ghostly Sperrit, all of whom seem deeply concerned the revelations should not appear. They hire Plant to have a word with Dorritt, but Dorritt heads off to Byron Bay and Plant pursues him through the dope lands of northern New South Wales.

A past era of magic mushrooms, free love, American friends, and an alternative newspaper of deep level inauthenticity begins to emerge, something that no one but Plant is keen to see revealed.

From the same college but a different school as John Le Carré, Michael Wilding will open your eyes, and darken your mind, with this vision of the not-so-secret world.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 3 y separately published work icon Leaving Home with Henry Phillip Edmonds , Melbourne : Press On , 2009 Z1572699 2009 single work novel 'Henry Lawson arises from the vaults of the National Library and hitches a road trip around contemporary Australia. His driver (and erstwhile narrator) Trevor is in search of the 'real' Australia, and they travel together through western New South Wales, on up into Queensland, retracing the past and imagining the present. Henry has a romantic moment in Nimbin, is charmed by the contradictions of Byron Bay, makes it to the Gold Coast, and eventually finishes up in his old home town of Sydney. This novel asks central questions about Australians and the myths they create for themselves. Are we an egalitarian people or individuals in the pursuit of pleasure?' (Publisher's blurb)
1 3 y separately published work icon Wishart's Quest Peter Corris , Rundle Mall/Rundle Street : Press On , 2009 Z1572694 2009 single work novel mystery

'In a New England country town to give a paper, academic Tom Wishart is struck by an amateur painting in the local art gallery. It looks just like him. Wishart is a foundling who knows nothing about his parents. The clue given by this uncanny resemblance sets him on a quest to discover his origins.

'As the search reaches back in time, the turbulent, shadowy lives of Paul Bushell, son of the squattocracy and disgraced Vietnam deserter, and Diana Saunders, vanished Aboriginal sportswoman, come into view and are played out? Could these be his parents? How and why was he abandoned? The trail leads to Sydney, Vietnam, Manila and Hong Kong, but the answers are found in a isolated place in the Blue Mountains.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon The Plant Novels Michael Wilding , 2007 Rockhampton Melbourne : Central Queensland University Press Arcadia Press On , 2007- 11252110 2007 series - author novel crime
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