The Red Hand: Stories, Reflections and the Last Appearance of Jack Irish - Softcover

Temple, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1922268275 ISBN 13: 9781922268273

Publisher: Text Publishing Company, 2020

Synopsis

Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was 50, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in 13 years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When he died in March 2018, there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The Red Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of Valentine’s Day, an improbably delightful story about an ailing country football club, which in 2007 was adapted for television by the ABC. Also included are his short fiction, his reflections on the Australian idiom, a handful of autobiographical fragments, and a selection of his brilliant book reviews.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Temple is widely regarded as one of Australia’s finest writers, and his novels have been published in 20 countries. During his lifetime he worked extensively as a journalist and editor, before teaching editing and media studies at a number of universities. His novels, among them the Jack Irish series, Truth, The Broken Shore and An Iron Rose, are celebrated as some of the best crime writing in English. Temple died in March 2018.

Review

‘Readers will take to this series like a thirsty man to strong drink and bang the bar for another round.’ Publishers Weekly (US) on the Jack Irish novels

‘Clever, irresistibly entertaining thrillers.’ Time Out New York on the Jack Irish novels

‘Peter Temple wields his words like a blunt instrument, sometimes belting you with a short, hard, arse-kick of a sentence, then relaxing enough to work up a longer, more contemplative swing at the subject.’―Australian’s Review of Books

‘Temple writes with sophistication and wit.’ Washington Post

‘Temple is as dark and mean, as cool and as mesmerising, as any James Ellroy or Elmore Leonard with whom you might kill the small or sad hours.’―The Age

‘The writing is lean and muscular, but like the best mystery fiction is not afraid to tackle important issues...One of the world’s finest crime writers.’ Mark Billingham, The Times [UK]

‘Peter Temple is an addiction. Read one book and you will want to read them all.’―Val McDermid

About this edition

• Publisher: Text Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1922268275
• ISBN 13: 9781922268273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352