Paul Thomas Paul Thomas i(A17396 works by)
Born: Established: 1951 Harrogate, Yorkshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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Paul Thomas moved to New Zealand as an infant in 1954 and grew up in Timaru, Christchurch and Auckland, completing his education at the University of Auckland. In the 1980s he worked as a journalist, editor and a public relations executive in Auckland and Sydney. As a freelance writer he contributed to many Australian and New Zealand magazines and newspapers. He also co-authored several sports books. Thomas has used Auckland and Sydney as the main settings of his novels, attracting praise from critics in both countries. He became New Zealand's best-selling local thriller writer with Old School Tie (1994), drawing praise for his black humour and his descriptions of New Zealand settings. His next novel, Inside Dope(1995), won the inaugural Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime fiction. He followed this up with Guerilla Season (1996), a novel set in Auckland, detailing the political violence of the fictional Aotearoa People's Army. He received another Ned Kelly Award nomination in 2000 for Final Cut (1999) and he consolidated his reputation for compellingly witty tales of sex and violence with The Empty Bed (2002).

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form y separately published work icon Ihaka : Blunt Instrument ( dir. Peter Fisk ) Australia : Screentime Network Ten , 2000 6087338 2000 single work film/TV crime detective

'Maori detective Tito Ihaka (Temuera Morrison), is sent to a police training conference in Sydney following complaints about his rough tactics when arresting a cop-killer in his native Auckland. To keep him out of trouble, he is teamed with police media officer Kirsty Finn (Rebecca Gibney), and together they are assigned to review the three-year-old unsolved murder of supermodel, Julia Renton. The investigation at the time of the murder concluded that it was a random sex-killing, but with the unique combination of Finn's PR skills and Ihaka's direct approach of frightening people, the two not only find themselves in political hot water, but they uncover the sinister truth behind the killing.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 25/6/2013)

2001 nominated Logie Awards Most Outstanding Miniseries or Telemovie
y separately published work icon Inside Dope Port Melbourne : Mandarin , 1995 Z980597 1995 single work novel crime thriller

'After getting out of a Thai jail, Duane Ricketts had planned to stay away from drugs, but instead, following the last request of a dying man, he finds himself looking for 10 kilos of cocaine, during which time he comes across a body, and gains the unwanted interest of the Auckland police.'

Source : publication summary

1996 joint inaugural winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best Novel
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