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'Australia's pre-eminent comic Renaissance man turns his genius to novel writing. Having conquered television, radio, theatre and film, Shaun Micallef smashes his mighty fist onto the keyboard of his soul and produces a novel of such breathtaking brilliance that if Patrick White were alive today he'd hurl his own typewriter into the sea and start a lawn-mowing business.
'Suppose you were murdered and woke up 300 years earlier in someone else's body. Wouldn't you put yourself in suspended animation and be re-awoken in time to prevent yourself being murdered in the first place? This is the extraordinary tale of an ordinary man in a race against and across time.
'Join Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, HG Wells, Queen Victoria, Jack the Ripper and Tom Cruise as they unravel a Masonic plot to restore James II to the throne - and in the process, perhaps destroy the Universe itself. Soul transference, time travel, cloning, space ships, Hollywood and the Loch Ness Monster all come together for the first time in one action-packed and beautifully typeset novel.
'Preincarnate, Micallef's first - and very probably only - novel, shows not only that he is the rightful heir to the mantle of White but also the unruly bastard son of Barry Humphries, Clive James and Miles Franklin (obviously they'd all been very drunk that night).' (From the publisher's website.)
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New Media Spin-Offs Need Old Media Kudos
2011
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 January 2011; (p. 22) David Dale questions the interdependency of television shows and spin-off print publications. -
Shaun Micallef – Author Interview
2010
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— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , November 2010; -
Reincarnation's Birthing Problems
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 23) The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 40)
— Review of Preincarnate 2010 single work novel ; How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
Comic Inventiveness Abounds
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 October 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of Preincarnate 2010 single work novel -
A Time-Travelling Sleuth
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 October 2010; (p. 12-13)
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[Review] Preincarnate
2010
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 90 no. 1 2010; (p. 43)
— Review of Preincarnate 2010 single work novel -
Comic Inventiveness Abounds
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 October 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of Preincarnate 2010 single work novel -
Reincarnation's Birthing Problems
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 23) The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 40)
— Review of Preincarnate 2010 single work novel ; How It Feels 2010 single work novel -
And Now for Something Completely Different
2010
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 24 October 2010; (p. 18) -
A Time-Travelling Sleuth
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 30 October 2010; (p. 12-13) -
New Media Spin-Offs Need Old Media Kudos
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29-30 January 2011; (p. 22) David Dale questions the interdependency of television shows and spin-off print publications. -
Shaun Micallef – Author Interview
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , November 2010;