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Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Not to be confused with Ian Townsend.
Personal Awards
- 2024-2025 longlisted Adaptable (Queensland Writers Centre)
- 2016 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Australia Council Literature Board Grants Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $40,000.00
- 2008 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Developing Writers $25,000
Awards for Works
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The Devil's Eye
Pymble
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Fourth Estate
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2008
Z1527331
2008
single work
novel
historical fiction
'It is 1899, and one of the fiercest storms in history is brewing - a hurricane named Mahina.
'To a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets, and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. Nearly two thousand men, women and children are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster.
'Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2009 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Affection : A Novel
Sydney
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Fourth Estate
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2005
Z1191972
2005
single work
novel
historical fiction
Attempts by two doctors to deal with an outbreak of plague in Townsville at the turn of the century reveals much about the workings of political and personal relationships.
- 2005 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
- 2006 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
- 2005 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Fiction
- 2012 shortlisted The National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection — Queensland
- 2007 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
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