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Patrick Kennedy

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Born

in Sydney, Australia

Website

http://www.longbay.net.au

Genre

History, Crime

Influences

Ted Kennedy; Pauline Curby;

Member Since

November 2013

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Patrick Kennedy has had an exciting life. He was a Nurse, Intensive Care Ambulance Paramedic and a Media Consultant and a news writer for many organisations.

He started writing books in 1999 and has written four well sought after books. The most exciting was You Must See Some Terrible Things which takes you on a 'buckle your seat belt' white knuckled ride through his career as a Paramedic. Keep your emotions in check as you go with him on emergencies in the home, in car accidents and plane crashes.

He began writing his latest book Long Bay in 2013 and it was published in 2018. This is a unique blend of storytelling and history, weaving true crime into painstaking research. Kennedy takes the reader back more than a century when the original ...more

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Average rating: 4.4 · 45 ratings · 11 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Long Bay 4.32 avg rating — 28 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
	You Must See Some Terrible Things: Australian Ambulance Officers At Work 4.38 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
	From Long Bay to Malabar - A Village By the Sea 4.60 avg rating — 5 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
	From Bottle Forest to Heathcote - Sutherland Shire's First Settlement 4.75 avg rating — 4 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

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Long Bay in shops

Long Bay has now been officially launched by the Commissioner of Corrective Services and the Minister at Long Bay Correctional Centre. LONG BAY is now available in shops and www.longbay.net.au

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'I Kid You Not' - Notes From 20 Years in the Trenches of the Culture Wars

by Lyle Shelton

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I don’t always give James Patterson enough credit for the influence he has on books written with co-authors—but this one reminded me why I should. I’ve tried reading standalone novels by Nancy Allen, and in my view they don’t reach the same standard a ...more
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I’ve really enjoyed Nancy Allen’s work when she collaborates with James Patterson. He seems to bring out the best in her writing—tightening the narrative and, importantly for me, removing the tendency toward excessive swearing and, at times, undignif ...more
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