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Most Referenced Works
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2015 Fellowship of Australian Writers in Victoria : Excellence in Non-Fiction Award judges' Report for The Nashos' War :
Mark Dapin's The Nashos War gives valuable insight into the Australian National Service Scheme and its effect on the individual serviceman.
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Jewish Anzacs : Jews in the Australian Military (2017) traces the history of Australian born Jewish soldiers.
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Non-fiction/True Crime : Public Enemies : Ray Denning, Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox and the golden age of armed robbery (2020)
Prison Break : Shantaram to the Bangkok Hilton, The World's Most Wanted Australians (2021)
Personal Awards
- 2021 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best True Crime for 'Public Enemies'.
- 2015 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature — The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize or The Nashos’ War: Australia’s National Servicemen and Vietnam
- 2015 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature or The Nashos’ War: Australia’s National Servicemen and Vietnam
Awards for Works
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R&R
R & R
Melbourne
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Penguin
,
2015
8798235
2015
single work
novel
'Full of lacerating dialogue and typically sharp character portraits, R&R tells the story of US corporal John Ulysses Grant, aka Nashville, and his partner Shorty, an Australian military policeman, in the seaside resort of Vung Tau in South Vietnam, 1967. The Vietnam War rages across the country but Nashville's concerns are closer to home: how did a corpse, buried just days before, turn up in a local bar without any ears? Written with a brilliant, concise wit and brutal, uncompromising insight, R&R is a startlingly original portrait of men and war in the twilight zone behind the front, a searing study of the violence that we do to others, and ourselves.' (Publication summary)
- 2016 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
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Spirit House
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2011
Z1804028
2011
single work
novel
'David is thirteen and confused. His mum has gone off with her lover and sent David to his grandparents in Bondi to give her new relationship some "space". Sometimes it breaks your heart to understand.
'David's grandfather, Jimmy, a Jewish war veteran and survivor of the Thai-Burma railway, is seventy. Haunted by the ghosts of long-dead comrades, the only person he can confide in is a thirteen-year-old from a different world. Sometimes it breaks your heart to be understood.
'Spirit House is a story of Changi and the Thai-Burma railway, of old men living with the horrors of their past, and about making sense of the daunting business of growing up.' (From the publisher's website.)
- 2012 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
- 2012 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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y
King of the Cross
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
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2009
Z1634315
2009
single work
novel
crime
'King of the Cross is a dazzling novel that explores the criminal world of Jacob Mendoza: legendary Godfather of Kings Cross and for more than four decades, Australia's most powerful and notorious crime figure. To record his epic life story he employs a hapless young reporter from the Australian Jewish Times. As Mendoza unfolds his seductive story of thugs and drugs, murders and mysteries, bikers, bent cops and girls, girls, girls, it emerges that he's not the only one with a past. And as the memoir takes shape, other more terrifying criminals are circling the kingdom that Mendoza built.' (From the publisher's website.)
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