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Michael is an author and journalist living at Deepwater in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. His debut rural noir novel Tank Water and its sequel Dirt Trap are released by MidnightSun Publishing.

He has written for The Guardian, Fairfax Media, and the Journal of Australian Studies, and he is a board member of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival.

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	Tank Water (A James Brandt Mystery, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dirt Trap (A James Brandt Mystery, #2) 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Questionable Deeds: Making a stand for equal love 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Watchnight 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Closet His Closet Hers 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pluck: Exploits of the single-minded it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Merely Players: Acting like Shakespeare really matters really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Write, Regardless!: A no-nonsense guide to plotting, packaging and promoting your book really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Diving Into Deep Water: 2-Minute Plunges for Time-Poor Literary Lovers by Michael Burge (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Narelle Fernance, D'Arcy Lloyd really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Waves: Critical takes on culture and politics 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Michael Burge made a comment on Martin’s review of Dirt Trap (A James Brandt Mystery, #2) " I love this comment about Kippen in a tizz! Thanks for reading. "
Jul 03, 2026 02:55PM · see review
Michael Burge liked Martin's review of Dirt Trap (A James Brandt Mystery, #2): "with a 1/2 A good second book following Tank water....some twenty years later. James is on another search for the truth and again confronts suspect police force. The gay hate inquiry sends Kippen into a homophobic tizz !"
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Michael Burge rated a book it was amazing Redbelly Crossing by Candice Fox (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Bravo to the courage of author and publisher for centreing the trauma of a gay serving cop, DI Russell Powder, in a bestselling piece of commercial fiction. Queer cops are rare in popular culture, very often they are victims or problematic anti-heroe ...more
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Michael Burge rated a book liked it Haze by Sam Elliott	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This gripping debut blazes a new trail into Australian rural noir. With intense, action-packed prose, Elliott throws the reader into a rural community blasted apart by bushfire, on the heels of the fierce, loyal, humane and unique Constable Dahlia Tu ...more
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Michael Burge rated a book really liked it Swallow by Alexandria Burnham (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Garry Wotherspoon’s research into explosive archived love letters between 19th century seamen Matthew Flinders and George Bass, and bushrangers Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt, unleashed a long-overdue queer gaze on the Australian colonial experim ...more
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Michael Burge rated a book really liked it My Heart at Evening by Konrad Muller	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Former convict Jorgen Jorgensen is tasked with investigating the apparent suicide of English surveyor, architect and explorer Henry Hellyer in colonial Van Diemen’s Land. Pitting its characters against the harsh 1830s frontier, Muller’s debut novel u ...more
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Michael Burge rated a book really liked it Finding the Bones by Natalie Conyer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There’s just no credible way to portray crimey 1980s Sydney without including queer characters, and Conyer lines up a cast of cops, newshounds, crooks and misfits in this, her third crime novel. The plot reimagines Sydney’s reaction if the body of ac ...more
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Michael Burge rated a book really liked it The Trap by Fiona Kelly McGregor	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The NSW gay-hate crime inquiry examined several historical deaths that took place at gay beats, very often public toilets. Such analysis was necessarily sterile, but McGregor’s novel puts the mysteries of queer cruising and entrapment into visceral f ...more
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Michael Burge rated a book liked it The Farm: The eerie, chilling bestseller of Australian Gothic suspense by Jessica Mansour-Nahra (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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