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The Red Hand Peter Temple

The Red Hand By Peter Temple

The Red Hand by Peter Temple


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Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.

The Red Hand Summary

The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple

Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing.

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.
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The Red Hand Reviews

Peter Temple is an addiction. Read one book and you will want to read them all. * Val McDermid *
One of the world's most distinguished literary crime novelists * Independent *
What makes Temple so compelling is his divine use of language * Daily Mail *

About Peter Temple

Peter Temple was born in South Africa in 1946, and emigrated to Australia in 1980. He published nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels were published in over twenty countries. The Broken Shore won the UK's prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of 2007 and Truth won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first time a crime writer had won an award of this calibre anywhere in the world. The Jack Irish series was adapted for TV with Guy Pearce in the lead role. Peter Temple died on 8 March 2018.

Additional information

NGR9781529406771
9781529406771
1529406773
The Red Hand: Stories, reflections and the last appearance of Jack Irish by Peter Temple
New
Paperback
Quercus Publishing
2021-01-21
400
N/A
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