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Fresh from an Arts degree, P.M. Newton joined the New South Wales police force in 1982. She spent the next thirteen years working in and around Sydney in various departments – Drug Enforcement, Sexual Assault, Major Crime – first as an officer, then as a detective. When she had eventually had enough of meeting people for the first time on the worst day of their lives, Newton resigned from the Job to travel and live overseas, before returning to Sydney, where she works as a librarian and writes. The Old School is her first novel.

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Celebrating new books

Over the next week I'm looking forward to celebrating the birth of two new books.

No. Not mine. When contemplating the release of my own book I'm generally more queasy than celebratory, which is why it is so lovely to be able to celebrate the arrival of the books of others.

First up - I am launching King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett on Sunday 1 Feb at Gleebooks.

I met Nigel at UTS in a writing c Read more of this blog post »

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	The Old School 3.86 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2010 — 7 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
	Beams Falling 3.77 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Sydney Noir by John Dale (Editor), Kirsten Tranter, Mandy Sayer 3.65 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2018 — 9 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
	Crime Scenes Stories by Zane Lovitt (Editor), Amanda O'Callaghan (Contributor), P.M. Newton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.66 avg rating — 29 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
	Stories of Sydney by Alice Grundy (Editor), Michael Mohammed Ahmed (Editor), David M. Henley (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014	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 Great Unknown by Angela Meyer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ali Alizadeh (Contributor), Mark O'Flynn (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013	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
	Willow Pattern by Nick Earles, Steven Amsterdam, Krissy Kneen 3.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2012 — 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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