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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Invisible Boys
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'In a small town, everyone thinks they know you: Charlie is a hardcore rocker, who's not as tough as he looks. Hammer is a footy jock with big AFL dreams, and an even bigger ego. Zeke is a shy over-achiever, never macho enough for his family. But all three boys hide who they really are. When the truth is revealed, will it set them free or blow them apart?'

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form y separately published work icon Invisible Boys Nicholas Verso , Holden Sheppard , Enoch Mailangi , Allan Clarke , Declan Greene , ( dir. Nicholas Verso ) Western Australia : Feisty Asphodel Stan , 2025 26992377 2025 series - publisher film/TV

Four gay teens in Geraldton, Western Australia, form a tight-knit friendship after one of them is outed on social media after an encounter with a married man. The boys' friendship allows them to explore their desires and identities in a world that wants them to be invisible.

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  • 'Director Nicholas Verso and producer Tania Chambers have optioned the film and television rights to Invisible Boys via Haylee Nash of the Nash Agency.' (Books + Publishing 18 August 2020)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 344p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 01 October 2019
      ISBN: 9781925815566
    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2025 .
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      Extent: 352p.p.
      Edition info: TV tie-in ed.
      ISBN: 9781760994716
Form: audiobook
    • Leicester, Leicestershire,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       W. F. Howes ,       2021 .
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      Extent: 9 hrs and 46 minsp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 20 December 2021
      ISBN: 9781776957125
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The Jock and the Farmboy, but Not the Sissy : Sexual Archetypes in Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys Liam Blackford , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , September 2024;

'Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys — lately in the news for its TV adaptation on Stan — is an imperfect but extremely entertaining novel that deserves its success. I argue that it is a canonically important work of Australian gay literature, a monument of eroticised and anxious masculinity belonging to a legacy including titles such as Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded and Barracuda, or Tim Winton’s Breath. I also argue it impeccably instantiates some important gay sexual archetypes, with one major omission.'  (Introduction)
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Review of ‘Invisible Boys’ by Holden Sheppard Kathryn Trees , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2020 2020;
— Review of Invisible Boys Holden Sheppard , 2019 single work novel
Review of ‘Invisible Boys’ by Holden Sheppard Kathryn Trees , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2020 2020;
— Review of Invisible Boys Holden Sheppard , 2019 single work novel
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