Paul Anderson Paul Anderson i(A148441 works by)
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1 John Richards : The Gorgon Flower Paul Anderson , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2024;

— Review of The Gorgon Flower John Richards , 2024 selected work short story

'John Richards’ stories explore the phantasmagoric, the mysterious, and the follies of empire.'

1 Liam Murphy The Roadmap of Loss Paul Anderson , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2024;

— Review of The Roadmap of Loss Liam Murphy , 2024 single work novel
'Liam Murphy’s debut novel is both a road trip across the US and a journey into the past.'
1 Shaun Prescott : Bon and Lesley Paul Anderson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2022;

— Review of Bon and Lesley Shaun Prescott , 2022 single work novel

'Sean Prescott’s second novel recounts an escape to the country – or does it?'

1 Gregory Day : Words Are Eagles Paul Anderson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2022;

— Review of Words Are Eagles : Selected Writings on the Nature and Language of Place Gregory Day , 2022 selected work essay prose
'Gregory Day’s writing is inextricably bound with the landscape in this collection.' (Introduction)
1 John Hughes : The Dogs Paul Anderson , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , October 2021;

— Review of The Dogs : A Novel John Hughes , 2021 single work novel

'The new novel from award-winning writer John Hughes explores the transmission of trauma down the generations.'

1 Michael Mohammed Ahmad : The Other Half of You. Reviewed by Paul Anderson Paul Anderson , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , June 2021;

— Review of The Other Half of You Michael Mohammed Ahmad , 2021 single work novel

'Michael Mohammed Ahmad completes an enthralling trilogy of autofiction with The Other Half of You, his third novel.' 

1 Steven Conte The Tolstoy Estate Paul Anderson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2020;

— Review of The Tolstoy Estate Steven Conte , 2020 single work novel

'You don’t need to have read War and Peace to enjoy Steven Conte’s second novel.' 

1 Revisiting Trauma : Writing, a ‘Novel’ Approach to Catharsis and Redemption Paul Anderson , 2013 extract novel (Does It Hurt To Die)
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 6 no. 1 2013;
1 2 y separately published work icon Does It Hurt To Die Paul Anderson , Sunnybank : BookPal , 2011 Z1876872 2011 single work novel thriller

'A terrorist attack on a church in Cape Town kills twenty people. Jannie de Villiers, a well-known liver transplant surgeon avoids death, but is seriously wounded. Two weeks later while recovering at home, Jannie de Villiers is mysteriously murdered. With too many inexplicable circumstances surrounding her husband’s death Renata takes her four-year-old son Christian to live in Australia.

'As Christian grows up he becomes interested in the circumstances surrounding his father’s death. Using the Internet, he tries to find the reasons why he might have been killed. There is little to satiate his curiosity until one day he discovers a blog site set up by an old anti-apartheid activist. The blog site claims that his father had worked for the Bureau of State Security in the old apartheid government and had therefore been implicated in atrocities against blacks and coloureds. Christian pleads with his mother and returns to Cape Town shortly after his eighteenth birthday. Unbeknown to him his return to South Africa is monitored by the National Intelligence Agency and a white underground Afrikaner supremacist organisation. They both have knowledge of his father’s genetic research on racial profiling and believe that Christian might lead them to a missing folder containing highly sensitive material on chemical and germ warfare.

'Christian discovers the folder buried in the garden of their old house they once lived in. Included in the folder are evidence of the apartheid South African governments’ involvement in a germ and chemical warfare programme and the development of nuclear arms. In a section which has his father’s name at the top of it, Christian finds encrypted genetic research on racial groups. Christian recognises that the encryption has a code not dissimilar to code that he noticed on the back of a photograph of his mother and himself in Adelaide.

'Once it is known that the folder has been discovered Christian and his newly discovered half sister, Isabella, are then pursued by the Afrikaner white supremacist group. Christian and Isabella are taken hostage by the white supremacist group who demand the key to the encrypted genetic research to unlock their father’s research.' (Publisher's blurb)

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