Sydney Noir
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Australia’s largest city “provides fertile ground for dark doings, as these 14 tales demonstrate . . . [a] cavalcade of crime Down Under” (Kirkus Reviews).
Includes Kirsten Tranter’s Edgar Award-nominated “The Passenger”
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, “Sydney Noir brings together 14 compelling short stories by established and emerging Australian authors, each offering a startling glimpse into the dark heart of Sydney and its sprawling suburbs” (Sydney Morning Herald, Australian edition review).
This anthology includes brand-new stories by Kirsten Tranter, Mandy Sayer, John Dale, Eleanor Limprecht, Mark Dapin, Leigh Redhead, Julie Koh, Peter Polites, Robert Drewe, Tom Gilling, Gabrielle Lord, Philip McLaren, P.M. Newton, and Peter Doyle.
Shortlisted for the Danger Award presented by BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival
Included in CrimeReads’s Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019
“Akashic delivers another impeccable anthology with Sydney Noir, a deep dive into the mean streets, artistic outlets, and sultry demimonde of Australia’s largest (and liveliest) city.”—CrimeReads
“The 14 uniformly strong selections feature familiar subgenre figures: gangsters, ethically compromised cops, and people bent on revenge for the loss of a loved one . . . Fans of dark crime fiction will want to seek out other works by these contributors, most of whom will be unfamiliar to American readers.”—Publishers Weekly
“Here is a tough but tender vision of multicultural working-class Australia, with all its wards and anxieties.”—Australian Book Review
Includes Kirsten Tranter’s Edgar Award-nominated “The Passenger”
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, “Sydney Noir brings together 14 compelling short stories by established and emerging Australian authors, each offering a startling glimpse into the dark heart of Sydney and its sprawling suburbs” (Sydney Morning Herald, Australian edition review).
This anthology includes brand-new stories by Kirsten Tranter, Mandy Sayer, John Dale, Eleanor Limprecht, Mark Dapin, Leigh Redhead, Julie Koh, Peter Polites, Robert Drewe, Tom Gilling, Gabrielle Lord, Philip McLaren, P.M. Newton, and Peter Doyle.
Shortlisted for the Danger Award presented by BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival
Included in CrimeReads’s Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019
“Akashic delivers another impeccable anthology with Sydney Noir, a deep dive into the mean streets, artistic outlets, and sultry demimonde of Australia’s largest (and liveliest) city.”—CrimeReads
“The 14 uniformly strong selections feature familiar subgenre figures: gangsters, ethically compromised cops, and people bent on revenge for the loss of a loved one . . . Fans of dark crime fiction will want to seek out other works by these contributors, most of whom will be unfamiliar to American readers.”—Publishers Weekly
“Here is a tough but tender vision of multicultural working-class Australia, with all its wards and anxieties.”—Australian Book Review
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John Dale. (2019). Sydney Noir. Akashic Books.
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Includes Kirsten Tranter’s Edgar Award-nominated “The Passenger”
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, “Sydney Noir brings together 14 compelling short stories by established and emerging Australian authors, each offering a startling glimpse into the dark heart of Sydney and its sprawling suburbs” (Sydney Morning Herald, Australian edition review).
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Shortlisted for the Danger Award presented by BAD: Sydney Crime Writers Festival
Included in CrimeReads’s Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2019
“Akashic delivers another impeccable anthology with Sydney Noir, a deep dive into the mean streets, artistic outlets, and sultry demimonde of Australia’s largest (and liveliest) city.”—CrimeReads
“The 14 uniformly strong selections feature familiar subgenre figures: gangsters, ethically compromised cops, and people bent on revenge for the loss of a loved one . . . Fans of dark crime fiction will want to seek out other works by these contributors, most of whom will be unfamiliar to American readers.”—Publishers Weekly
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The former British penal colony provides fertile ground for dark doings, as these 14 tales demonstrate.These stories tend to focus on actual crimes rather than on the poverty, misfortune, and deprivation that are often noir staples. Of course, Dale showcases some peeks at the low life. There's a smattering of drug capers like Peter Doyle's "Good Bloke" and Tom Gilling's "Rip-Off," and Leigh Redhead shows an exotic dancer taking a lap dance a little too far in "The Transmutation of Sex." But even folks from Sydney's upper crust can get into the act, as Kristen Tranter shows in "The Passenger." Talent is no proof against bad acts and actors, as a nationally ranked swimmer learns in Robert Drewe's "The Razor," an acclaimed architect finds out in Mark Dapin's "In the Court of the Lion King," and a budding designer discovers in Julie Koh's "The Patternmaker." In addition, any number of ordinary folks blunder their ways into wrongdoing. In Eleanor Limprecht's "In the Dunes," a single dad's struggle to raise a teenage girl ends badly. And in editor Dale's "Good Boy, Bad Girl," a young woman with aspirations finds a sinister way to take care of her aging grandmother. The emphasis on crime stories lays the groundwork for some pretty neat surprises. Mandy Sayer's "The Birthday Present" and P.M. Newton's "Chinaman's Beach" both pack a wallop in the crime-with-a-twist department.Although Dale's approach is traditional, the stories he's assembled offer ample variety in this cavalcade of crime Down Under.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Includes Kirsten Tranter’s Edgar Award-nominated “The Passenger”
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, “Sydney Noir brings together 14 compelling short stories by established and emerging Australian authors, each offering a startling glimpse into the dark heart of Sydney and its sprawling suburbs” (Sydney Morning Herald, Australian edition review).
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