The Diplomat
$28.04
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
28 June 2022
Summary
- Fresh out of detox and five years after his involvement in the theft of Picasso’s masterpiece The Weeping Woman from the NGV, Edward Degraves - art forger and drug addict - returns to Melbourne for a new start. All he needs to do is make one last visit to The Diplomat, a seedy motel renowned for its drug dealers and eccentrics.
But Edward’s new-found sobriety is both a torment and a gift. As he revisits old haunts, he is confronted by reminders of the past: ruine…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760989767 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760989762 |
| Author: | Chris Womersley |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Picador Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 288g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Chris Womersley
Chris Womersley is the bestselling author of four novels The Low Road, Bereft and Cairo and City of Crows, and the short story collection A Lovely and Terrible Thing. He has been published in the UK, US and Europe, has received the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction, an Indie Award for Best Fiction, an ABIA Award for Literary Fiction and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the Gold Dagger Award for International Crime Fiction, The Age Book of the Year and the ALS Gold Medal for Literature. Chris’s short fiction has appeared in Granta, The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin and Griffith Review and the anthologies Where there’s Smoke, Sleepers X and Meanjin A-Z, and has also won or been shortlisted for numerous prizes. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and son.
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