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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Love Machine
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'Kings Cross is a circus of desire, and Spencer has a ringside seat.

'In an underground sex shop he sees it all: the buck's parties and streetwalkers, the drunks and the judges, the trannies, the junkies, the chokers. All types come through the doors and it's Spencer's poorly paid job to sell them what they want.

'What Spencer wants is less straightforward. He makes figurines of Jesus with tentacles, writes revenge poetry and plans a film about the Immaculate Conception starring the blow-up dolls he lives with. Drifting between his dysfunctional family, the shop with its seedy cast of muscle-boys and amateur criminals, and the misfits who populate his apartment block, Spencer doesn't really know what he's looking for.

'All that changes when Livia walks down the stairs. But can a daughter of the Cross provide salvation?

'A love story set in a sex shop, Love Machine is a candid, confronting but also very funny first novel about the strange and familiar business of desire.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Hamish Hamilton , 2010 .
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      Extent: 297p.
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      • Published: 01/02/2010
      ISBN: 9781926428024 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Hype, Hairy, Horny, Hope Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of Beautiful Malice Rebecca James , 2010 single work novel ; In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel ; The Legacy Kirsten Tranter , 2010 single work novel
Some Kind of Ghost Kate Holden , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 17)

— Review of Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Glimpse into the Shadows Sunil Badami , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Books Ian Nichols , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 20 February 2010; (p. 20)

— Review of So Greek : Confessions of a Conservative Leftie Niki Savva , 2010 single work autobiography ; Lachlan Macquarie : His Life, Adventures and Times M. H. Ellis , 1947 single work biography ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Getting off to a Good Start Anson Cameron , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 29)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; Come Inside Glenys Osborne , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Getting off to a Good Start Anson Cameron , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 February 2010; (p. 29)

— Review of Keeping Faith Roger Averill , 2010 single work novel ; Come Inside Glenys Osborne , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Books Ian Nichols , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 20 February 2010; (p. 20)

— Review of So Greek : Confessions of a Conservative Leftie Niki Savva , 2010 single work autobiography ; Lachlan Macquarie : His Life, Adventures and Times M. H. Ellis , 1947 single work biography ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Glimpse into the Shadows Sunil Badami , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 March 2010; (p. 30)

— Review of Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Some Kind of Ghost Kate Holden , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 320 2010; (p. 17)

— Review of Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel
Hype, Hairy, Horny, Hope Gillian Dooley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 19)

— Review of Beautiful Malice Rebecca James , 2010 single work novel ; In-Human Anna Dusk , 2010 single work novel ; Love Machine Clint Caward , 2010 single work novel ; The Legacy Kirsten Tranter , 2010 single work novel
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