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The Diplomat

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The Diplomat
Our Rating: (3/5)
Author: Womersley, Chris
Category: Crime & mystery, Fiction & related items, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Publisher: Picador Australia
ISBN: 72-9781760989767
RRP: 32.99

Synopsis

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.
Contact him at: chriswomersley.com

A powerful story of grief and recovery, set in the 1990s drug underworld of Melbourne, from bestselling and award-winning author Chris Womersley.

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