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Is part of Emily Tempest Adrian Hyland , 2006 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Gunshot Road
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'Now, somehow, Emily's become the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush.

'Being allergic both to authority and to keeping her big mouth shut, she's immediately at odds with her new boss. And a death at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse just makes things worse.

'Officially it's a simple case of two old drunks and a hammer.Emily's not convinced.

'Fast, funny and action-packed - Gunshot Road is Australia's literary thriller of the year. (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Sally.
  • Author’s note: Readers familiar with the Northern Territory will recognise that I’ve taken liberties with many factual matters, notably geography and language. My portrayal of the Indigenous characters is based upon insights gained during my years of working with a number of Central Australian communities; but the people, the language, the dreaming and places described are inventions.

  • Epigraph:

    i.

    Fire tumbles roll inward

    from a desert's edge.

    At first they appear as

    cart-wheeling Spinifex,

    later, flame beyond sight

    takes hold, enthralled.

    ii.

    It has been said

    their substances is lost forest -

    breath of dried air

    John Kinsella 'Notes of Fire-Tumbles'

    For a while the fires die down in you,

    until you die down in the fires.

    Michael Dransfield 'Fix'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2010 .
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      Extent: 371p.
      ISBN: 9781921656309 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Soho Press ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 372p.
      ISBN: 9781569476369
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Quercus ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 352p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st July 2010
      ISBN: 9781849162142
Alternative title: Kaltes Feuer: ein neuer Fall für Emily Tempest
Language: German
    • Berlin,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Suhrkamp ,       2010 .
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      Extent: 388p.p.
      ISBN: 9783518462133 3, 51846213X
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Works about this Work

Untitled 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 22 March vol. 257 no. 12 2010; (p. 55)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Jessica Moyer , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Booklist , 1 May vol. 106 no. 17 2010; (p. 28)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Desert Tales Liz Porter , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2010; (p. 12)
Making a Killing Where the Streets Have No Name Eleanor Limprecht , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 25 July 2010; (p. 13)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Astute Character Avoids the Outback's Racial and Gender Pitfalls Sue Turnbull , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 July 2010; (p. 32-33)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Review of the Week Thornton McCamish , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 May 2010; (p. 19)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Entrapment Thuy On , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 322 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Well Read Katharine England , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 29 May 2010; (p. 24)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel ; Thrill City Leigh Redhead , 2010 single work novel
Untitled B. Owen Baxter , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , May/June vol. 89 no. 8 2010; (p. 36)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Fiction Books Gillian Bramley-Moore , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 26 - 27 June 2010; (p. 22)
— Review of Gunshot Road Adrian Hyland , 2010 single work novel
Desert Tales Liz Porter , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 22 August 2010; (p. 12)
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