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Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 The Hulk
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'Australian history, post European settlement, would be nothing without crime. But in one part of the nation they like to keep their crimes secret. South Australia was founded as a nineteenth century middle-class utopia, free of the convict contagion which tainted other Australian colonies. But between 1880 and 1891 this 'enlightened' society implemented a barbaric penal solution - incarcerating 'delinquent' boys aged 6 to 16 on a prison ship moored off the South Australian coast.

'The Hulk is the story of those boys living on the hulk Fitzjames, whose voices have been hidden from history. Simon Robb delves back into the historical sources and uses contemporary interviews to make the boys speak again, uncovering the terrible stories of a truly Australian secret history.'   (Publication summary)

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[Review Essay] The Hulk Moya Costello , 2006 single work review essay
— Appears in: API Review of Books , January no. 40 2006;

— Review of The Hulk Simon Robb , 2003 single work novel

'Simon Robb's The Hulk is engaged in multitasking and to read it is to engage in multiskilling. To open its pages is to read fiction, specifically the Gothic genre (or perhaps we should say neo-Gothic); to consider history, specifically an aspect of Australia's unreconciled past; and to play with textuality, with writing and reading.' (Introduction)

[Review] The Hulk Bernard Whimpress , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: API Review of Books , November no. 39 2005;

— Review of The Hulk Simon Robb , 2003 single work novel
The Hulk Mike Ladd , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 244 2004; (p. 27)

— Review of The Hulk Simon Robb , 2003 single work novel
Barbaric Prison Ship for Our Boys Tony Baker , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 November 2003; (p. 46)
The Hulk Mike Ladd , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 244 2004; (p. 27)

— Review of The Hulk Simon Robb , 2003 single work novel
[Review] The Hulk Bernard Whimpress , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: API Review of Books , November no. 39 2005;

— Review of The Hulk Simon Robb , 2003 single work novel
[Review Essay] The Hulk Moya Costello , 2006 single work review essay
— Appears in: API Review of Books , January no. 40 2006;

— Review of The Hulk Simon Robb , 2003 single work novel

'Simon Robb's The Hulk is engaged in multitasking and to read it is to engage in multiskilling. To open its pages is to read fiction, specifically the Gothic genre (or perhaps we should say neo-Gothic); to consider history, specifically an aspect of Australia's unreconciled past; and to play with textuality, with writing and reading.' (Introduction)

Barbaric Prison Ship for Our Boys Tony Baker , 2003 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 November 2003; (p. 46)
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