Truth

Awards:   Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010. Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2010. Winner of Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year 2010 (Australia) Winner of Deutscher Krimi Preis: International 2012. Winner of International German Crime Prize 2012 Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010.
Author:   Peter Temple
Publisher:   Text Publishing
ISBN:  

9781921656620


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 August 2010
Format:   Paperback
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Awards

  • Shortlisted for Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010.
  • Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2010.
  • Winner of Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year 2010 (Australia)
  • Winner of Deutscher Krimi Preis: International 2012.
  • Winner of International German Crime Prize 2012
  • Winner of Miles Franklin Literary Award 2010.

Overview

Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honour and deceit. And it is about the search for truth. At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a panic button within reach. So begins the sequel to Peter Temple's bestselling masterpiece, The Broken Shore, winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel. Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling.

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Author:   Peter Temple
Publisher:   Text Publishing
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.90cm
Weight:   0.326kg
ISBN:  

9781921656620


ISBN 10:   192165662
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   30 August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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The sense of place is stifling in its intensity, and seldom has a waltz of the damned proven so hypnotic. - The Guardian. Great locations, hard-nosed dialogue and a twisting plot combine to create superb entertainment. - Evening Standard. What makes Temple so compelling is his divine use of language. The novel is written with grace and subtlety, elegant but also violent, dark and yet suffused with sympathy for the protagonists, cast in dialogue that is both distinctive and surprising. - Daily Mail. With crackling prose and sparkling dialogue, Temple has fashioned a fast-paced atmospheric police work of genuine class. - Mail on Sunday.


Author Information

Peter Temple is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries. The Broken Shore won the UK’s prestigious Duncan Lawrie Dagger for the best crime novel of 2007 and Truth won the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the first time a crime writer has won an award of this calibre anywhere in the world. Temple’s Jack Irish series has been made into films with Guy Pearce starring as Jack Irish.

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