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Detective Inspector Napoleon "Bony" Bonaparte is a fictional character created by Australian novelist Arthur Upfield (1890–1964). [1] Bony is a biracial Aboriginal Australian detective with a reputation for solving difficult cases by finding subtle clues.
The historian Stuart MacIntyre has said the book challenged the assumption that "nothing of significance ever happened" in Australia or that Australians lacked "creative originality". A full biography of Furphy was written through a collaboration of Australian author Miles Franklin and Furphy's friend Kate Baker , titled Joseph Furphy: The ...
The novel tells the interconnected stories of several inhabitants of the fictional town of Desperance, situated on the Gulf of Carpentaria in northwest Queensland.There, the Aboriginal people of the Pricklebush clan are engaged in a number of argumentative conflicts with various enemies in the community, including the white inhabitants of Desperance, the local law enforcement and government ...
Australia in fiction by state or territory (13 C) Comics set in Australia (1 C, 16 P) ... Fictional Australian people (8 C, 94 P) S. Short stories set in Australia (6 ...
In later books it turns from an illegal casino to a bridge club, as the club's owner Price Galese has further trouble bribing Police and Government officials to ignore the casino's presence. Les' career provides many opportunities for training, fighting, sex, dancing, photography, reflection and the odd mystery solving.
A reviewer in The Canberra Times praised its setting, but was less impressed with its overall worth as a novel: "Picnic Races, Dymphna Cusack's latest novel, is as Australian as a yellow box tree. Her fictional town of Gubba, whose centenary is arranged and celebrated amid a welter of community rivalries, could be any Australian country town ...
A Town Like Alice (United States title: The Legacy) is a romance novel by Nevil Shute, published in 1950 when Shute had newly settled in Australia. [1] Jean Paget, a young Englishwoman, becomes romantically interested in a fellow prisoner of World War II in Malaya, and after liberation emigrates to Australia to be with him, where she attempts, by investing her substantial financial inheritance ...