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Garry Disher was born in South Australia in 1949. He grew up on his parents' wheat and wool farm and attended the local high school (an hour's bus ride from home). The dry wheat and wool country of his childhood is so distinct that it often appears in his stories and novels.

In 1971, Garry graduated with a BA from Adelaide University. During 1972 and 1973 he travelled extensively, living and working in the UK, Europe, Israel and Africa. Later he graduated from Monash University with an MA in Australian History and went on to further study at La Trobe University. Meanwhile, Garry had begun writing short stories for literary magazines and, on the strength of these, was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, California, in 1978. It was here that he wrote his first collection of short stories.

From 1980 to 1988, Garry taught creative writing part-time to supplement his writing income and helped design the professional writing course for the Victorian TAFE system. Since then he has written full-time and has published over thirty highly-praised books for both adults and children. His publications include novels, short story collections, history textbooks, writers' handbooks and crime thrillers.

Garry's work has received numerous awards and honours. The Bamboo Flute, a novel for children, won the 1993 Children's Book Council (CBC) Book of the Year Award for Younger Readers and was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Award. It also represented Australia at the 1994 IBBY conference in Spain, and was voted one of the best books of the year by Publisher's Weekly USA. Two of his short story collections have been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Award, and his latest novel for adults, The Sunken Road, was shortlisted for both the 1996 National Book Council Award for fiction and the South Australian Festival Award for fiction and highly praised in the UK, where it was submitted for the Booker Prize.

Many of my books and stories,' Garry says, reflect my interest in Australia's past and the effects of war and hardship on ordinary people.'

Garry's Wyatt thrillers have been called a landmark in Australian crime writing. His children's novels, such as The Bamboo Flute, Ratface, Ermyntrude Takes Charge and Walk Twenty, Run Twenty have won the hearts of children in Australia, Denmark, Holland, Italy, South America, the UK and the USA.

Available Books by Garry Disher

	Blood Moon Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921656002 RRP: $23.95 When hordes of eighteen-year-old schoolies descend on the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate the last of their exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. Maybe even drink-spiking and sexual assault. They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention. The victim is connected, and now Detective Inspector Hal Challis is f...
	Chain Of Evidence Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921145414 RRP: $23.95 Hal Challis is 1000 kilometres away from the Peninsula, watching his father die. Ellen Destry is left to mind his house for a month. And his job. Katie Blasko, aged nine, has disappeared. Ellen fears abduction -- the Peninsula is sleepy, picturesque, prosperous, but she suspects the existence of a paedophile ring. Superintendent McQuarrie scoffs: the girl came from the Seaview Estate, notorious f...
	Dragon Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921145285 RRP: $23.95 It's a scorching hot summer on the Mornington peninsula and the police are preparing for the usual holiday madness. But this time it s not just petty theft and joyriding kids. There's a killer on the Old Peninsula Highway and women alone aren't safe. Detective Inspector Hal Challis is up against it. The media are demanding to know what he plans to do about the killer, his colleagues ...
	Kittyhawk Down Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921145452 RRP: $23.95 The second Inspector Challis and Sergeant Destry novel. An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for Detective Inspector Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. Meanwhile Challis's own emotional li...
	Whispering Death Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921922510 RRP: $23.95 Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that's a little too ...
	Wyatt Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921656811 RRP: $23.95 WYATT'S BEEN AWAY. NOW HE'S BACK. That's as much as anyone really knows about him. The rest is rumour, the kind that makes people wary. And that's fine with Wyatt. Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer. A jewel heist inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife. The target is an international courier of stolen items: A...
	The Wyatt Butterfly: Port Vila Blues and The Fallout Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921656262 RRP: $32.95 Two classic Wyatt novels in one volume PORT VILA BLUES Wyatt snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, but can he make it safely back to his bolthole in Hobart? Port Vila Blues is Wyatts fifth heist, this time leading him to a reckoning far from home. THE FALLOUT The Fallout takes off where Port Vila Blues left Wyatt: on a boat with policewoman Liz Reddin...
	Wyatt Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921656026 RRP: $32.95 Wyatt's been away. Now he's back. That's as much as anyone really knows about him. The rest is rumour, the kind that makes people wary. And that's fine with Wyatt. Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer. A jewel heist - inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife. The target is an intentional courier of stolen it...
	Two-Way Cut Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733615368 RRP: $17.99 Leah Flood is on the run. The cops are after her and she has to find herself a place to hide, a bolthole. The irony is, Leah is a cop too. But she's a cop who made a mistake, who ratted on some colleagues. Leah knows she's in the right, but that doesn't seem to matter to the guys who are chasing her. Hitting the road, Leah gets a lift with Mitch and Tess. They appear to be two yo...
	Eva's Angel Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733615351 RRP: $16.99 Eva Hicks has come to Italy for love and art. What she finds in the shifting light of Tuscany are gunshots along the terraced hillsides, the enigmatic Nye, and a sense of her misplaced faith. Meanwhile, in a crypt beneath the wintry stones of Venice, Matthew Rennie is cleaning the grime from a mediaeval fresco. Better here than above ground, where Nye holds sway, masked figures shadow him and pe...
	Good One, Erm Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733614637 RRP: $16.99 Illustrated by Craig Smith. It's not easy moving house and making new friends. Especially not when the neighbours think you're weird. And not when Ermyntrude, your grand piano, sends wolfhounds and comets after the man next door. And sirens, and horses and roosters, and barn owls . . . It's not easy when you know you'll never see your father again - will you ever be able to pl...
	Maddie Finn Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733612237 RRP: $16.99 Maddie Finn lives with her mother above converted stables in the ground of a big house owned by the gloomy Harold Delamore. It's their "cosy burrow against the world", and Maddie's favourite task is to walk Sal, Mr Delamore's rare, prize-winning dog. But one day Maddie and her mother are given two months notice by the trouble-making Delia Delamore, home from her boarding scho...
	Apostle Bird Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733615894 RRP: $16.99 ...
	Bamboo Flute Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733615887 RRP: $12.99 Twelve-year-old Paul has few friends and his family have troubles of their own. One day he encounters a tramp, Eric the Red, who shows him how to make a flute from bamboo - a project that intrigues Paul. Meanwhile, the district accuses Eric of sheep stealing, and Paul must try to defend him. ...
	Moondyne Kate Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733615870 RRP: $17.99 I goses by the name Moondyne Kate . . . I was a Orphan Girl and fell into a great melancholy of the spirit, great discouragement was my lot . . .' Canongate was a colourful town in 1865 - convicts, a goldrush, marauding bushrangers - but nothing much happens now and there's nothing much to do except hang around the Mall and get hassled by the cops. Nat Whistler can't wait to get out...
	Ratface Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733614620 RRP: $17.99 'Something had changed. She felt restless, curious to know more about the White League, about life for people outside it. She wanted answers and she intended to get them.' What do you do if an outsider tells you the teachings of Ratface and the White League are wrong? What if Ratface shuts you away behind an electric fence, or if he expects you to help him mould another child in the wa...
	Walk Twenty, Run Twenty Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733614644 RRP: $17.99 'My legs pump, my breathing is huge and ragged, my face hot and damp . . .' Rick's cousins are two specks floating on the horizon, leaving him far behind on the treacherous bush track. He looks at his punctured tyres in dismay. Ten kilometres. If he walks, he'll be too late to save them. If he runs, he'll expire in the heat. Somewhere across the flats, in between the red-...
	Writing Fiction: An Introduction To The Craft Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865085890 RRP: $26.99 The art of writing fiction successfully requires not only talent but craft. This book is a guide to that craft - for writers who want to understand and master the basics of what makes a novel or story work well. The principles and sound practical advice offered arise from Garry Disher's own deep experience as a professional writer, as well as a teacher of writing, an editor of collections, a...

	Wyatt Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781569479629 RRP: $32.95 Taking what he hopes will be a straightforward jewel heist, Wyatt is forced to partner with Eddie Oberin and Eddie's intelligent ex-wife, Lydia, who possesses critical inside information, in a plot that proves unexpectedly complicated. 25,000 first printing....
	Blood Moon Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781569476314 RRP: $18.95 ...
	Blood Moon Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781569475638 RRP: $31.95 ...
	Chain of Evidence Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781569475003 RRP: $16.95 ...
	Snapshot Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781569474600 RRP: $15.95 ...
	Kittyhawk Down Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781569474273 RRP: $18.95 With a missing toddler, an unidentified drowning victim, arson, and possible murder Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis and his team are on the scene to solve the case....
	Snapshot Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781569474266 RRP: $29.95 ...
	The Dragon Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781569473955 RRP: $14.95 ...

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	A D.I. Challis Murder Mystery: Kittyhawk Down Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865089812 A Detective Inspector Challis Murder Mystery. Written by one of Australia's finest crime writers, 'Kittyhawk Down' is the second and much anticipated Inspector Challis murder mystery. Like 'The Dragon Man', which won the German Crime Fiction Critics Award 2001 and was short-listed for the Ned Kelly Award, it is loaded with suspense, action and intrigue. An unidentified man is...
	A D.I. Challis Murder Mystery: The Dragon Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781741140569 A Detective Inspector Challis Murder Mystery. Winner of the German Crime Fiction Critics Award 2001 and shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award, this taut, complex crime novel is being re-released to coincide with the publication of Disher's latest instalment of the Detective Inspector Hal Challis series, 'Kittyhawk Down'. "It was as easy as that. Inspired, really. That first one, la...
	A D.I. Challis Murder Mystery: The Dragon Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865082530 A Detective Inspector Challis Murder Mystery. It's December and the police of the sleepy Peninsula towns are preparing for the usual summer holiday madness. But this time, it's not just break-and-enters and joyriding kids. There's a killer on the Old Peninsula Highway and women alone aren't safe. For Detective Inspector Hal Challis, his quiet place in the country is about to ex...
	Below The Waterline Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780732266165 31 Australian Writers Choose Their Best Short Stories. Following on from the critically acclaimed 'Personal Best 1 and 2', 'Below The Waterline' is the definitive anthology of Australian short story writing for the 1990s. Garry Disher has once again assembled a significant collection of stories representing the very best of contemporary writing. The anthology brings together n...
	Blood Moon: The New Mystery from The Master Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921351877 When hordes of eighteen-year-old schoolies descend on the Mornington Peninsula to celebrate the last of their exams, the overstretched police of Waterloo expect reports of party drugs and underage drinkers. Maybe even drink-spiking and sexual assault. They don't count on a brutal bashing that attracts political attention. The victim is connected, and now Detective Inspector Hal Challis is fac...
	Chain of Evidence Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781569474617 ...
	Chain Of Evidence Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921351211 Nine-year-old Katie Blasko is missing. Detective Sergeant Ellen Destry, alert to rumours of a paedophile ring operating on the Peninsula, is thinking abduction. Her colleagues are thinking bad family, truancy. Her boss is thinking about the media. And everyone, including Ellen, is wondering whether she's good enough to handle this without D. I. Challis. But Hal Challis is a thousand kilometr...
	From Your Friend, Louis Deane Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733605277 'Once upon a time there was a happy family. They lived in the city. The mother and the father loved their children. Then, one fine day, they uprooted them from their neighbours and friends and took them somewhere else.' When Louis' parents decide to move from the city to a small coastal town. Louis finds himself at odds with everything around him. He's an outsider at school wh...
	Moondyne Kate Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733612220 I goses by the name Moondyne Kate . . . I was a Orphan Girl and fell into a great melancholy of the spirit, great discouragement was my lot . . .' Canongate was a colourful town in 1865 - convicts, a goldrush, marauding bushrangers - but nothing much happens now and there's nothing much to do except hang around the Mall and get hassled by the cops. Nat Whistler can't wait to get out...
	Past The Headlands Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865085395 Neil Quiller was a Kimberley bush pilot in the 1930s. But in 1941, he enlists in the WWII effort and becomes a photo-reconnaissance pilot in Malaya. Betrayed by a spy and shot down over the jungle, he escapes to Singapore ahead of the advancing Japanese. Here he finds love but he also encounters his self-centred cousin, Cameron Dunn, who demands from him an impossible promise. When Singapore f...
	Past The Headlands Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781865088273 It's an adventure story, it's an historical/war romance, and it's a piece of wonderful writing but most of all, it's a fantastic read for men and women. Neil Quiller, a bush-pilot from the Western Australian outback, feels most at home in the air, relying on his logbooks to understand the landscape beneath. But in 1941 he becomes a photo-reconnaissance pilot in Malaya, flying over...
	Restless Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733614613 Six chilling stories of suspense and the supernatural . . . 'It was only an old holiday house, the sort of place you and your friends could have fun in for a few days, now that the exams were over . . .' It's a great feeling, breaking away from home, school and the restrictions of your childhood years, testing yourself in the world at last. First flight. First love, first job, firs...
	Snapshot Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781920885724 Superintendent McQuarrie is not well liked. Bullying bureaucrat, dapper golfer and Chamber of Commerce toady, he has few allies amongst the rank and file of Waterloo coppers. But when his daughter-in-law Janine is brutally slain in front of her seven-year-old daughter, the team are quick to respond. Detective Inspector Hal Challis sets out to investigate. Was Janine the target? What did her deat...
	Snapshot Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921145520 An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for Detective Inspector Hal Challis, this sparks the beginning of a chilling series of shotgun killings. As Challis investigates, a farmer on the peninsula erupts into violence and is the target of a massive manhunt. Meanwhile Challis's own emotional life is strained, and some of his police colleagues have a...
	Switch Cat Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781863880923 Illustrated by Andrew McLean Evangelina: supple, proud, satiny, sleek. Ms Whiz: scruffy, torn, fishbreathy, mean. Two cats . . . two girls, completely mismatched. Ms Whiz knows where she belongs - so does Evangelina....
	Switch Cat Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781863880930 Illustrated by Andrew McLean Evangelina: supple, proud, satiny, sleek. Ms Whiz: scruffy, torn, fishbreathy, mean. Two cats . . . two girls, completely mismatched. Ms Whiz knows where she belongs - so does Evangelina....
	The Apostle Bird Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733605253 'We have come here to scratch for gold. Once we had a house, a business and a Packard sedan, but they are gone now, seized by the bank.' The year is 1934, the time of the Great Depression. The place is a settlement of miners' dugouts far from the nearest town. Fifteen-year-old Neil and his parents have come from Adelaide, hoping to strike it lucky, but the gold is elusive, the othe...
	The Bamboo Flute Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780207173479 Paul is a dreamer, his head alive with rippling pianos, gentle violins and the smiles of Margaret, the one he loves. But in the cold light of the day, Margaret snubs him at school, the piano has been sold, his father is battling to keep the farm, and dejected men are tramping the roads . . . looking for work, a sandwich, a cup of tea . . . No-one has time for music or dreams. Then Eric the Red...
	The Bamboo Flute Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733614606 'I begin to drift way. In my mind I am digging for gold. Gold will save us. Gold will bring back the music in our lives . . .' Paul is a dreamer, his head alive with rippling pianos, gentle violins and the smiles of Margaret, the one he loves. But in the cold light of the day, Margaret snubs him at school, the piano has been sold, his father is battling to keep the farm, and dejected ...
	The Divine Wind Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733605260 'Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form other alliances, as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed . . .' In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese diver. Can their love su...
	The Divine Wind Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780733612916 'Friendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don't, or as we form other alliances, as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed . . .' In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese diver. Can their love su...
	The Stencil Man Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780732266905 In the long hot afternoons of an Australian summer, Martin Linke makes stencils for his children, writes in his journal and dreams of freedom. "I'm not at war," he had protested when the internment order came. He had left Germany 17 years ago. But it is wartime, and he is an alien. Martin waits. He keeps to himself. He is approached by camp factions, but he will not be drawn. If...
	Walk Twenty, Run Twenty Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780207188145 Rick's cousins were two specks floating on the horizon, leaving him far behind on the treacherous bush track. He looked at his punctured tyres in dismay. Ten kilometres. If he walked, he'd be too late to save them. If he ran, he'd expire in the heat. Somewhere across the flats, in between the red-dirt back roads, there was real trouble happening. Rick had never felt so alone; th...
	Whispering Death Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781921758591 Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour....

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