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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 life is strained, and some of his police colleagues have allowed their public and private responsibilities to blur. And then Challis finds some aerial photographs in the possession of his friend Kitty that link her to the murders. Kittyhawk Down is the second in the Hal Challis series of novels. After it was published in German, Disher topped (in July and August 2005) the KrimiWelt-Bestenliste voted for by 17 specialty crime booksellers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, commissioned by Die Welt, Nordwest Radio and Arte, the arts TV channel.
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| ISBN 13: | 9781921145452 |
| ISBN 10: | 1921145455 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Dimensions: | 198 x 129mm |
| Released: | 01/07/2011 |
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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.
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