Andrew Rule Andrew Rule i(A11160 works by) (a.k.a. Leonard Andrew Rule)
Born: Established: 1957 ;
Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Rule on Crime: 10 Crime Stories You Won't Forget Rule on Crime: Ten Crime Stories You Won't Forget Andrew Rule , Melbourne : Wilkinson Publishing , 2017 11601588 2017 selected work short story crime detective

'ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S TOP TRUE CRIME WRITERS AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING UNDERBELLY SERIES. Rule on Crime is a carefully curated and updated collection of 10 of Andrew Rule’s best Australian true crime and corruption stories. Compelling, unsettling, and 100 per cent true, Rule’s stories take the reader inside cases that gripped and shocked the nation. Dying on Easey Street The 1977 murders of Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett in Collingwood, Melbourne have gone unsolved to the present day. Billy ‘The Texan’ Longley One of few to survive the Melbourne dock wars that inflicted more casualties than the Eureka Rebellion — around 40 men dead and many more wounded during a decade that spawned the now-notorious saying, "We catch and kill our own." Girls who like bad boys Sylvia Radev, Roberta Williams, Judy Moran ... women married to the mob. Still looking for the Beaumont Children In 2017 Jim and Nancy Beaumont turned 91 and 89. For more than 50 years they have woken every day to face the nightmare that their three children vanished from a crowded beach on Australia Day, 1966.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Man & Beast Andrew Rule (editor), Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2016 10419452 2016 anthology short story

'Man & Beast features some of the greats of Australian literature, writing about the particular kinships they have with animals: the loves, the losses and the surprising turns those relationships can take.

'Les Carlyon writes about those strange beings, horse people. Robert Drewe's curious eye falls on everything from bull sharks to bull ants. Don Watson is a secret racehorse fancier. Shaun Micallef remembers the dog that might never have been and Paul Toohey laments the passing of the 'roo dog.

'Plus, Andrew Rule, Phillip Adams, Greg Baum, Tony Birch, John Birmingham, Anson Cameron, John Clarke, Greg Combet, Trent Dalton, John Elder, Jonathan Green, John Harms, Malcolm Knox, Garry Linnell, William McInnes, Bruce Pascoe, Liam Pieper, Frank Robson, Andrew Rule, John Silvester, Jeff Sparrow, Tony Wilson, Tony Wright share their memorable stories of the animals in their lives.' (Publication summary)

1 The Heroes Who Made a Hard Man Cry (from Kerry Stokes : A Boy from Nowhere) Andrew Rule , 2014 single work extract
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 October 2014; (p. 57)
1 Unfinished Business Andrew Rule , 2014 extract biography (Kerry Stokes : The Boy from Nowhere)
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 October 2014; (p. 10-14)
1 2 y separately published work icon Kerry Stokes : The Boy from Nowhere Andrew Rule , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2014 7950223 2014 single work biography

'The compelling and inspirational story of the rags to riches life of Kerry Stokes, a remarkable Australian. Kerry Stokes is a remarkable Australian. Not because he is one of this country's wealthiest and most powerful people but because of what he overcame to get there and because he has endured when others didn't. He is the last mogul. His rise has intrigued the business world for decades but there is so much more to him than takeover targets and balance sheets. Behind the laconic front is a human story as tough and touching as a Dickens tale: Oliver Twist with great self-expectations. It is the story of a poor boy who stared down poverty, ignorance and the stigma of his birth to achieve great wealth and fulfilment. A compelling story that, until now, he has not told. Now he oversees a multi-billion dollar media, machinery and property empire. He is renowned for his art collection and for philanthropy, spending millions of dollars to buy Victoria Crosses from soldiers' families to donate to the Australian War Memorial. But he's a private man. A man apart. He made his name in the West but kept his distance from the buccaneering band of entrepreneurs who forged fabulous fortunes in Perth from the 1960s until the 1987 crash. Bond went to jail, Holmes a Court died; Connell did both. Lesser lights flickered and faded but Stokes grew stronger, becoming a player alongside Murdoch, Packer and Lowy. His story fascinates all the more because he has spent most of his life guarding it. But now he's telling it, to one of Australia's great storytellers. This book will tell his story, scars and all.' (Publication summary)

1 A Long Life Devoted to Helping Others Andrew Rule , 2012 single work obituary (for Elisabeth Murdoch )
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 December 2012; (p. 1-2)
1 Inside Underbelly : True Confessions of a Small Crime Publisher Andrew Rule , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 28 November 2009; (p. 89-90, 92-93)
1 Thanks for the Memoirs : Costello Sells His Story Andrew Rule , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 August 2008; (p. 3)
1 Book of the Week Andrew Rule , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 29 June 2008; (p. 24)

— Review of The Tall Man : Death and Life on Palm Island Chloe Hooper , 2008 single work prose
1 Galbally's Lore Andrew Rule , 2005 single work obituary (for Frank Galbally )
— Appears in: The Age , 13 October 2005; (p. 13)
1 Geoff Clark : Power and Rape Andrew Rule , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: The Best Australian Profiles 2004; (p. 263-279)
1 Back from the Badlands Andrew Rule , 2003 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 9 August 2003; (p. 24-25, 27-28)
1 Villain in a Horsehair Wig Andrew Rule , 2003 single work biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 12 April 2003; (p. 31-35)
1 Fire Andrew Rule , 2003 single work essay
— Appears in: The Age , 25 January 2003; (p. 1, 4)
1 A Novel Approach for the Boy from the Suburbs Andrew Rule , 1996 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 11 February 1996; (p. 6)
1 Bob and Blanche : A Modern Love Story Gary Tippet , Andrew Rule , 1995 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 8 January 1995; (p. 13)
1 y separately published work icon Chopper 4 : For the Term of His Unnatural Life Andrew Rule (editor), John Silvester (editor), Mark Brandon Read , Melbourne : Floradale Productions , 1994 Z380568 1994 single work autobiography crime
1 y separately published work icon Chopper 3 : How to Shoot Friends and Influence People John Silvester (editor), Andrew Rule (editor), Mark Brandon Read , Kilmore : Floradale Productions , 1993 Z380469 1993 single work autobiography crime
1 1 y separately published work icon Chopper 2 : Hits and Memories : More Confessions of Mark Brandon Read John Silvester (editor), Andrew Rule (editor), Mark Brandon Read , Kilmore : Floradale Productions , 1992 Z380368 1992 single work autobiography crime
1 y separately published work icon Rose Against the Odds : The Lionel Rose Story Andrew Rule , Kilmore : Floradale Productions , 1991 Z1429377 1991 single work biography

'Adapted from John Dixon's original screenplay for the television mini-series, this is the story of legendary boxer Lionel Rose. With photographs from the series, the book charts his rise to fame during the 1960s and his decline into alcoholism and drugs at the age of just 21. Includes a foreword by Bob Hawke and an introduction by Ron Casey.' (Source: Goodreads website)

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