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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Occasions of Sin
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'At a young age, Gawain is left by his parents with a community of hippies who live on old Tom Slipper's farm in the hills inland from the Gold Coast. His education is poor and his moral code misty. He thinks the Knights of the Round Table provide a good compass.

Two bikies come to the Gold Coast and Gawain is infatuated with their boasting and bravado, agreeing to help them with a bank robbery. They carry this out successfully, but their career then spins out of control, plunging Gawain into a series of ventures in which he comes close to hardened criminals and learns the downside of crime.

We meet the burglar, Natty Fennel; Cal Azzard, the Prince of the Night, and Sydney-siders like Charlie Hopper who teach us something of crime; and of course, Sergeant Peter Griswald and Constable John Keiler who spend their time trying to bring them to justice.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my dear wife, Catharina, whose encouragement is so valuable.

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    • Glen Waverley, Ashwood - Mulgrave area, Melbourne South East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Sid Harta Publishers , 2010 .
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      • Publication date 01 November 2010
      ISBN: 9781921642302 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Review : Fiction Stephen Keim , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 - 31 July 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of Occasions of Sin Cedric Hampson , 2010 single work novel
Review : Fiction Stephen Keim , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 - 31 July 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of Occasions of Sin Cedric Hampson , 2010 single work novel
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