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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Thought Crimes
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'In Thought Crimes, Tim Richards takes the reader on a mind-bending ride through a world where nothing is quite as it seems. The lives these stories describe are almost ordinary - but an ambush lurks around every corner.

'A novice teacher accepts a job at an unconventional high school where students take 'self-expression' to odd and disturbing lengths.

'In a trendy beachside suburb, suspiciously perfect babies start appearing on young couples' doorsteps.

'A visitor from the future shakes the life out of a small Australian town.

'Blackly funny and irresistibly twisted, these stories peek behind the everyday appearance of things to explore unspoken fears and desires. Destined to become a cult classic, Thought Crimes is a one-way trip through the looking glass.' (From the publisher's website.)

Notes

  • Epigraph:
    You got stuck in the mud of life.
    You felt warm and cosy. (Sharply)
    Now you're going to freeze.

    -Marguerite
    Exit the King Eugene Ionesco

Contents

* Contents derived from the Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Black Inc. , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
(Favoured by) Babies, Tim Richards , single work short story

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2011 .
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      Extent: 269p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: August 2011.
      ISBN: 9781863955386 (pbk.)

Other Formats

Works about this Work

The Year's Work in Fiction Annabel Smith , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , July vol. 57 no. 1 2012; (p. 137-152)

— Review of When We Have Wings Claire Corbett , 2011 single work novel ; Shooting the Fox Marion Halligan , 2011 selected work short story ; Sarah Thornhill Kate Grenville , 2011 single work novel ; The Waterboys Peter Docker , 2011 single work novel ; Traitor Stephen Daisley , 2010 single work novel ; Inherited Amanda Curtin , 2011 selected work short story ; The Courier's New Bicycle Kim Westwood , 2011 single work novel ; That Deadman Dance Kim Scott , 2010 single work novel ; The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman , 2011 single work novel ; Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; Black Glass Meg Mundell , 2011 single work novel ; The Cook Wayne McCauley , 2011 single work novel ; Wild History 1996 single work poetry ; A Common Loss Kirsten Tranter , 2011 single work novel
A Worthy Mirror of Reality : Tim Richards' Thought Crimes Ben Carmichael , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , August 2011;

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story
Whispering Death Carmel Bird , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 334 2011; (p. 27)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story
Fictional Footholds in the Cliffs of Raw Experience Patrick West , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3 - 4 August 2011; (p. 26)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; Violin Lessons Arnold Zable , 2011 selected work prose
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 August 2011; (p. 21)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; RPM Noel Mengel , 2011 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 August 2011; (p. 36)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; Cargo Jessica Au , 2011 single work novel ; A Break in the Chain : The Early Kozminskys Tangea Tansley , 2011 single work novel
Unpredictable Imaginings Thuy On , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 13 August 2011; (p. 35)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story
Take Three : Fiction Ian McFarlane , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 14 August 2011; (p. 26)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; To Silence : Three Autobiographies Subhash Jaireth , 2011 selected work single work short story
Fiction Reviews Martin Crotty , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 - 14 August 2011; (p. 24)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 21 August 2011; (p. 21)

— Review of Thought Crimes Tim Richards , 2011 selected work short story ; RPM Noel Mengel , 2011 single work novel
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