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Peter Fitzpatrick


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Australia

(b 1944) Mayo Street is Peter Fitzpatrick’s third novel. Its predecessors, Death in the BackPocket (with Barbara Wenzel) and Promontory, set respectively in an AFL football club and on a bushwalk in the 1920s, are similarly crime-novels-with-a-twist; all three share a keen eye for the complexities – and the humour – of human behaviour.

Peter’s writing spans a number of genres: in feature film, his credits include screenplays for Hotel Sorrento (for which he won an AFI Award) and Brilliant Lies; as a biographer, he has published two dual biographies, Pioneer Players: the lives of Louis and Hilda Esson, and The Two Frank Thrings (for which he won the National Biography Award in 2013); and in musical theatre, three of his shows have been profes ...more

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Mayo Street
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The Two Frank Thrings
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Pioneer Players: The Lives ...
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Death in the Back Pocket
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Stephen Sewell: the Playwri...
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Promontory
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