Lenny Bartulin Lenny Bartulin i(A100745 works by)
Born: Established: 1969 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania, ;
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon The Unearthed Lenny Bartulin , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2023 26210258 2023 single work novel crime

'When human remains are discovered in the wilds of the Tasmanian west coast, the dark past comes into the light of the present in this deeply moving novel from the author of Fortune.

'There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men and lift their heads, listen, then bound away: the scrub, the bushes shake and wave, signalling their invisible trajectories.

'After decades-old human bones are discovered in the Tasmanian wilderness, Antonia Kovács returns home with questions for her father, a retired police inspector in Queenstown.

'Meanwhile, Tom Pilar receives news of an inheritance, from a man he barely remembers, one of his father's friends from the early days, newly arrived in the island and looking for work.

'Set amidst the harsh terrain of the timber and ore industries of the west coast, The Unearthed is a haunting novel about the past and its quiet but tenacious grip on the present. It reveals the tragic connections between the disparate lives of post-war migrants and local workers, and the fallibility of memory, the illusion of truths and the repercussions on real lives.' (Publication summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon Fortune Lenny Bartulin , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2019 15985405 2019 single work novel

'In 1806 Napoleon Bonaparte conquered Prussia. Beginning on the very day he leads his triumphant Grande Armee into Berlin through the Brandenburg Gate. Fortune traces the fates of a handful of souls whose lives briefly touch on that momentous day and then diverge across the globe.

'Spanning more than a century, the novel moves from the Napoleonic Wars to South America, and from the early penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land to the cannons of the First World War, mapping the reverberations of history on ordinary people. Some lives are willed into action and others are merely endured, but all are subject to the unpredictable whims of chance. Fortune is a historical novel like no other, a perfect jewel of epic and intense brilliance.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Our Country Lenny Bartulin , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 146 2016; (p. 83)
1 Felix the Less : From a Concise Dictionary of Antipodean Saints Lenny Bartulin , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 141 2015; (p. 91)
1 Phil of Lilyfield Lenny Bartulin , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 138 2014; (p. 58-59)
1 Bernard of Fremantle Lenny Bartulin , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 139 2014; (p. 67)
1 9 y separately published work icon Infamy Lenny Bartulin , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2013 6469992 2013 single work novel historical fiction

'William Burr, the son of an English settler in South America, had a steady job hunting mahogany pirates in British Honduras. One day, injured and recovering after a jungle skirmish, he receives a letter from John McQuillan, his old friend and now Chief Police Magistrate in Hobart Town, with the offer of a reward for the capture of a notorious outlaw: and so Burr sets sail for the Antipodes, though with little idea of what to expect. He arrives in Van Diemen's Land, the most isolated and feared penal colony of the British Empire, in 1830 to find a world of corruption, brutality and mystical beauty. Following the trail of Brown George Coyne, the charismatic outlaw leader of a band of escaped convicts, Burr is soon rushing headlong through the surreal, mesmerising Vandemonian wilderness, where he will discover not only the violent truth of British settlement, but also the love of a woman, and the friendship of an Aboriginal tracker, himself an outcast on an island of outcasts.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 I Know It's Only Noir (But I like It) Lenny Bartulin , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: If I Tell You...I'll Have to Kill You 2013;
1 A Concise Dictionary Lenny Bartulin , 2012 extract novel
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 4 no. 4 2012;
1 3 y separately published work icon De Luxe : A Jack Susko Mystery Lenny Bartulin , Melbourne : Scribe , 2011 Z1795214 2011 single work novel crime detective mystery 'For once, Jack Susko is feeling pretty good: his secondhand bookshop is on the up, and the cops haven't been around in ages. Even his cat, Lois, is being nice to him.

'Then one morning a beautiful woman knocks on Jack's door and hands him an eviction notice. His former boss, a corrupt property developer, asks for help with a particular situation and won't take no for an answer. Throw in an ex-lover, her jealous boyfriend, half‑a‑dozen Playboy bunnies, a Nazi Luger and, of course, the police, and it's safe to say that Jack's favourable winds are quickly turning a little rough.

'In his most thrilling and riotous adventure yet, De Luxe finds Jack Susko with all the odds against him ... and nothing but bad cards to play.' (From the publisher's website.)
2 5 y separately published work icon The Black Russian : A Jack Susko Mystery Lenny Bartulin , Carlton North : Scribe , 2010 Z1651219 2010 single work novel crime detective mystery

'After yet another slow week at the cash register, that fine purveyor of second-hand literature, Susko Books, is facing financial ruin. Jack Susko sets off to a gallery in Woollahra to scrape up some coin with the sale of an old art catalogue. With his usual panache and exquisite timing, he arrives just as De Groot Galleries is being done over by masked thieves. Along with a mysterious object from the safe, the robbers seize a valuable first edition from Jack's bag, too.

'When the owner of the gallery doesn't want to call the cops, Jack is offered a sizeable sum to keep silent: but when de Groot arrives at the bookshop with his heavy to renege on the deal, all bets are off. With an ease that almost constitutes a gift, Jack Susko finds himself at the centre of a world full of duplicity, lies and art theft.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Down in the Gully Lenny Bartulin , 2009 single work short story mystery
— Appears in: New Australian Stories 2009; (p. 61-68)
1 y separately published work icon Jack Susko Lenny Bartulin , 2008 Carlton North : Scribe , 2008- Z1455911 2008 series - author novel crime detective mystery
1 5 y separately published work icon A Deadly Business Lenny Bartulin , Carlton North : Scribe , 2008 Z1455906 2008 single work novel crime detective mystery 'Jack Susko is trying for a quiet life in his second-hand bookshop - no cares apart from an almost complete lack of income; no responsibility for anyone apart from his cat. But an unusual request from a mysterious customer plunges Jack into a world that he thought he'd left behind ... And as the bodies start piling up, he can't help but wonder just when second-hand book dealing became so dangerous. Not that he's necessarily complaining when the danger is accompanied by a curvaceous brunette...' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Village i "This is the land of hard carnivores", Lenny Bartulin , 2007 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 66 no. 2 2007; (p. 173)
1 Past and Present i "She breathes, shallow old age:", Lenny Bartulin , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 (New Series) 2006; (p. 86)
1 Distances i "A lone woman sows the sound", Lenny Bartulin , 2006 single work poetry
— Appears in: Heat , no. 12 (New Series) 2006; (p. 85)
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