Brian Stoddart Brian Stoddart i(A97745 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon A Greater God Brian Stoddart , New Zealand : Selkirk Books , 2018 20666200 2018 single work novel crime

'Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns to Madras from Penang where he leaves his new Straits Chinese love interest, Jenlin Koh, and a tempting new post in police intelligence there. He finds Hindu-Muslim tension on the rise in Madras, and his friends and subordinates Mohammad Habibullah and Jackson Caldicott at loggerheads as a result. A series of Muslim murders around the Presidency adds more tension. Le Fanu's arch enemy, Inspector-General Arthur "The Jockey" Jepson is reacting recklessly to the new conditions, then Le Fanu has to travel to Hyderabad where his former housekeeper and lover Roisin McPhedren is seriously ill. Le Fanu swings between his personal and professional challenges as a gang of revolutionaries and Hindu nationalists from North India travel south to aggravate the troubles. Le Fanu and Jepson clash head-on as the latter causes several policemen to be killed, and Le Fanu is losing support because his main civil service protectors are leaving Madras. Just as he seems close to overcoming all these problems, news arrives that Jenlin Koh is on board a ship reported missing near Ceylon. How will Le Fanu cope?'

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1 1 y separately published work icon A Straits Settlement Brian Stoddart , Hong Kong : Crime Wave Press , 2016 9727415 2016 single work novel crime

'In the third installment of the Le Fanu Mystery series, the intrepid superintendent is promoted to Inspector-General of Police in 1920s Madras, which proves to be more boring than he had envisaged. Instead of pushing papers across his desk, the Le Fanu focuses on the disappearance of a senior Indian Civil Service officer and an apparently unrelated murder. As the two incidents intertwine, the world weary detective is drawn into the worlds of indentured labor recruitment and antiquities theft.. But as bureaucratic politics make his position vulnerable, his superiors send the intrepid policeman across the Bay of Bengal to pursue the cases in the Straits Settlements. Le Fanu immediately becomes embroiled in the activities of secret societies and the British colonial intelligence services. The appearance of a mysterious Chinese woman renders his professional life uncertain as he wonders anew about the British'.

1 Sports Media and Reporting Brian Stoddart , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : S 2014; (p. 437-439)
1 y separately published work icon The Pallampur Predicament Brian Stoddart , Hong Kong : Crime Wave Press , 2014 8721621 2014 single work novel crime historical fiction

'The second Superindentent Le Fanu Mystery sees our intrepid British policeman on the trail of the murderers of an Indian Rajah. Under pressure from his superiors, pining for his lost love and allergic to the sight of blood, Le Fanu must navigate through a political mine-field of colonial intrigue in 1920s Madras. As the British tighten their grip on the sub-continent, Gandhi’s peace movement, British secret agents and armed pro-independence rebels complicate Le Fanu’s investigations further and he soon finds himself in a quagmire of violent opposing forces that are unwilling to compromise.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon A Madras Miasma Brian Stoddart , Hong Kong : Crime Wave Press , 2014 8721542 2014 single work novel crime historical fiction

'Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end of the colonial enterprise is in sight and the city on India’s east coast is teeming with intrigue. A grisly murder takes place against the backdrop of political tension and Superintendent Le Fanu, a man of impeccable investigative methods, is called in to find out who killed a respectable young British girl and dumped her in a canal, her veins clogged with morphine. As Le Fanu, a man forced to keep his own personal relationship a secret for fear of scandal in the face British moral standards, begins to investigate, he quickly slips into a quagmire of Raj politics, rebellion and nefarious criminal activities that threaten not just to bury his case but the fearless detective himself. The first Detective Le Fanu Adventure, A Madras Miasma, tells a classic tale of murder, corruption and intrigue with a sharp eye on British colonial politics and race relations. It is a story that, like its main protagonist, has its heart firmly in the right place. ' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon A Superintendent Le Fanu Mystery Brian Stoddart , Hong Kong : Crime Wave Press , 2014 8721485 2014 series - author novel crime historical fiction
1 y separately published work icon India and Australia : Bridging Different Worlds Brian Stoddart (editor), New Delhi : Readworthy Publications , 2011 Z1869398 2011 anthology poetry
1 New World and Old Myths Brian Stoddart , 2009 single work essay
— Appears in: Biblio : A Review of Books , November-December vol. 14 no. 11 & 12 2009; (p. 27-28)
The author demonstrates how Australia's former intellectual expertise on India has retreated and advocates the need to evolve a comprehensive cultural development programme to overcome this.
1 1 Get over Him! Brian Stoddart , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 307 2008; (p. 14-15)

— Review of Jack Fingleton : The Man Who Stood up to Bradman Greg Growden , 2008 single work biography
1 Furore in Moscow Brian Stoddart , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 299 2008; (p. 54)

— Review of Boycott: The Story Behind Australia's Controversial Involvement in the 1980 Moscow Olympics Lisa Forrest , 2008 single work autobiography
1 Writing on Sport Brian Stoddart , 2006 single work essay
— Appears in: Reflected Light : La Trobe Essays 2006; (p. 255-262)
Brian Stoddart reflects on his passion for sports culture. He writes: 'In order to understand the historical contours of sport in any given location, one needs to know a lot more than the sport itself. It is for that very reason that as much of my reading has been oustide as it has been inside sport. The point is to be driven either by the sport into the wider world or by the wider world back into the sport - and not to be driven so much by theory as by a search for meaning.'
1 Rock Music and Australian Social Commentary Brian Stoddart , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer no. 21 1984; (p. 32-35)

Country Joe McDonald (of The Fish fame) might have been over-scathingly dismissive in his observation of American society in the 1960s and 70s, but he would have felt his argument vindicated had he seen some contributions to a debate on the social significance of rock music which emerged in the conservative pages of Quadrant during 1983. The defenders of Culture and opponents of rock argued that contemporary popular music was a degenerate, pernicious musical mutant carrying several social ill-consequences ranging from sexual promiscuity and drug-addiction to ear-damage and poor listening-skills. All forms of rock should be banished, allowing a return to the "real" music that is often labelled as "serious" or "classical". As in so many areas of cultural discussion the linguistic loading was crucial: "serious" music by implication was worthwhile and socially constructive, rock music the opposite. Any attempt logically to defend rock was seen as a concession to poor taste and as a contribution to the destruction of cultural standards.

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