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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Shutterspeed
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'Living alone with his silent father and the shadow cast by his long-dead mother, Dustin waits. All he wants is to slip under the radar and survive what's left of high school; get through his work at the photo lab, get by. Beyond that lies real life. Then one Sunday, a single photo gets stuck in the processor and it changes everything. The bike in the picture is decent, for once, a Ducati Monster 620, cherry red. The woman beside it is striking too. What begins then as an innocent curiosity in Terri Pavish, her photography, her freedom, her speed, becomes something else, and the past swings full-circle to haunt him.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2008 .
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      Extent: 154p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 1st 2008
      ISBN: 9781921361203 (pbk.)

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Sound recording.

Works about this Work

AJ Betts – Author Interview 2010 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2010;
[Review] Shutterspeed Les Strong , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Fiction Focus : New Titles for Teenagers , vol. 22 no. 2 2008; (p. 36)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Shutterspeed Sharon Seymour , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 33)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
From the West : A. J. (Amanda) Betts A. J. Betts , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 13)
[Review] Shutterspeed Roie Thomas , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 16 no. 4 2008; (p. 16)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
Thomas describes Shutterspeed as an 'understated general treatise on depression'. However she muses that 'building blocks for transcendence over despair' are laid for Year 12 student Dustin by the end of the book.
[Review] Shutterspeed Leonie Jordan , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , June vol. 87 no. 9 2008; (p. 60)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Shutterspeed Maya Linden , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 305 2008; (p. 57)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Shutterspeed Fran Knight , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , July vol. 23 no. 3 2008; (p. 38)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Shutterspeed Roie Thomas , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 16 no. 4 2008; (p. 16)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
Thomas describes Shutterspeed as an 'understated general treatise on depression'. However she muses that 'building blocks for transcendence over despair' are laid for Year 12 student Dustin by the end of the book.
[Review] Shutterspeed Sharon Seymour , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 33)

— Review of Shutterspeed A. J. Betts , 2008 single work novel
From the West : A. J. (Amanda) Betts A. J. Betts , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 13)
AJ Betts – Author Interview 2010 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , August 2010;
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