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Garry Disher

This page lists novels, short story collections, and non-fiction books by Garry Disher.

In addition to the books listed on this page Garry Disher has also written books for children. These fall outside the scope of this page.

Cover images are, when possible, of the first Australian edition and a more recent paperback or digital edition.



This page is divided into four sections.

Written by Garry Disher:
- novels, story collections
- omnibus editions
- non-fiction

Edited by Garry Disher:
- anthologies

 

Garry Disher: Novels and story collections

Approaches

Garry Disher

Neptune Press

1981

A short story collection.

The contents are:

  • Approaches
  • The Bamboo Flute
  • Clemency
  • Dead Eye
  • Wipeout
  • The Annual General Meeting
  • Rudi
  • Other Countries
  • A Considered Stance
  • A Homecoming
  • Artifacts
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Steal Away

Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1987

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The Stencil Man

Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1988

"A concentration camp—on Australian soil. Men are separated from their families by barbed wire. They have committed no crimes; they try to explain to their children that they're not in prison. It feels like prison. They’re told it’s only temporary, there are processes in train. Nothing changes. There are riots. Plans to escape. It is 1942. Garry Disher’s second novel is an unflinching look at an episode in Australia’s past that has become chillingly resonant in recent years. It is a study of prisoners, here internees, driven to desperation by thoughtless bureaucracy, by prejudice, by the arbitrary exercise of power. It is a lesson in the consequences of fear. And it is the story of a man who worries for his children and will do anything—almost anything—to find his way back to them."
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The Difference to Me

Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1988

A short story collection.

The contents are:

  • Tap
  • The Difference To Me
  • Now When It Rains
  • Amateur Hour
  • Gently, Gently, Sideways
  • Stinkadora
  • Exchange
  • Blessed
  • Restoration
  • Rudi
  • Chain
  • The Boundary Men
  • Another Word For It
  • Poor Reception
  • Dead Eye
  • Something To Show For My Miserable Life
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Flamingo Gate: A Novella And Stories

Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1991

A short story collection.

"Melbourne in the last decade of the millennium feels like a hard-boiled fiction or a noir film, with corruption in the air and on the ground. Six short stories and a novella circle the city's decay, spiral towards a thrilling conclusion and fuse into a new kind of crime fiction. Vignettes of desire and disappointment resonate through a city whose airwaves and waterways are blighted by a toxic conglomerate, whose supermarkets and convenience stores are staked out by a killer, whose nights pulse with analogue television and staticky videotape, and whose past and future meet at the Flamingo Gate apartments."
The contents are:
  • Vapour
  • Airship
  • Therapy
  • Syndrome
  • Early Warning
  • Greektown
  • Flamingo Gate
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Kickback

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1991

A Wyatt novel.

" Wyatt robs banks, and lifts payrolls. Most men like him are dead or in gaol. But Wyatt stamps a cold, pitiless style on his heists - and makes sure that he never gets caught. Now his funds are low and his luck is running out - until the day Anna Reid explains about the kickback in her partners's safe. Other players are involved: Bauer - who learnt his trade shooting blacks in Southern Africa; Ivan Younger - small-time boss; Sugarfoot Younger - sullen urban cowboy. In the world of Kickback there is no yielding, no redemption. When Wyatt is crossed, the outcome is inevitable."
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The Sunken Road

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1996

"The Sunken Road is many roads, taking different paths through the terrain of a life, a family, a history and a region. It is a road called Loss, a road called Secrets, a road called Love - and a road called Sunken. Lyrical, expansive and profoundly moving, this is a novel like no other. The town of Pandowie in the mid-north of South Australia has been shaped for generations by two families, the Isons and the Showalters. At their conjunction lies a tragedy that cannot be glimpsed directly but sits at the centre of Anna Tolley’s long life, pulling at her past and future. Anna’s story and all her secrets are exposed through a series of prisms, drawing themes and connections from her life and her surroundings, each revealing a different facet and combining into a tender and devastating whole."
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Paydirt

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1992

A Wyatt novel.

"Wyatt is back in a new adventure set on the far side of morality. Introduced in Kickback, Garry Disher's fast-selling, widely praised crime novel, Wyatt reappears in the South Australian outback, intent on snatching a payroll. But Wyatt is not the only one eyeing the funds. The Outfit has business with Wyatt. It will only be finished when he faces the hitman's gun."
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Deathdeal

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1993

A Wyatt novel.

"On the run after the payroll heist that went horribly wrong in Paydirt, wanted by the police and contract hitmen, he discovers that a shadowy third player has joined the hunt. Enter Stolle. Stolle specialises in finding people who don't want to be found. But who is his Brisbane client? Is this a trap Wyatt's walking into? And what of the score itself, the suburban bank with two million in the vault? It looks easy enough - if you don't count a bank manager who owes favours to the wrong people, a gun-running pilot, grifters, bent cops and punks with ambition...There's death in a deal like that."
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Crosskill

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1994

A Wyatt novel.

"Wyatt made some powerful enemies in his first three outings, and the time has come to confront them. But we know by now that Wyatt’s revenge won’t be showy, impetuous and futile; it will be pragmatic, elaborate—and still possibly futile. He holes up in Sydney, preparing to return home to Melbourne to play his enemies against each other in a dangerous double-cross that will tear down the notions of loyalty and obligation."
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Blame the Wind

Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1995

A young adult novel.

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Restless : Stories of Flight & Fear

Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1995

Young adult story collection.

"This collection offers six chilling stories of suspense and the supernatural."
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Port Vila Blues

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1996

A Wyatt novel.

"Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch--and perhaps the girl--that undoes him. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules--even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home. In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style criminal Wyatt positively shines."
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The Fallout

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1997

A Wyatt novel.

"Australian jewel thief Wyatt has a bounty of stolen jewels and a yacht, but nothing can stop him from returning to his life of crime. He drugs his lover, police officer Liz Redding, and escapes into the night only to discover the gems he lifted are fakes. With his luck and his resources rapidly running out, Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with Raymond, his estranged nephew and an established criminal himself, to lift some expensive artwork. It should be an easy job--the gallery is under construction and Wyatt has performed similar heists before. But it isn't long before things go south, leaving Wyatt with some tough choices. Will the young and eager Raymond prove to be a worthy pupil or is he nothing but deadweight? For Wyatt, putting faith in other people has never been as tempting... or as dangerous."
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Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1997

A short story collection.

"The straight stories in this collection are traditional, the bent are subversive, making fun of the crime genre and the craft. The Barbara Vine stories are psychological."
The contents are:
  • Straight
    Old Ground
    Wyatt's Art
    The Two-Hundred-Dollar Picasso
    Threshold
  • Bent
    My Brother Jack
    Love and Grudges
    Cockeyed at High Noon
  • Barbara Vine
    Stalking Moon
    Scrapings
    Airship
    Early Warning
    Trusthouse
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The Apostle Bird

Garry Disher

Hodder Children's Books

1997

A young adult novel.

"The year is 1934, the time of the Great Depression. The place is a settlement of miners' dugouts far from the nearest town. Fifteen-year-old Neil and his parents have come from Adelaide, hoping to strike it lucky, but the gold is elusive. Then the American Ivan and his daughter Kitty arrive, mysterious and aloof. Soon rumours spread: Ivan killed a man; Kitty helped him rob banks. Neil is drawn to them despite the rumours. But Kitty saw him shoot the apostle bird. How can he convince her that it was an accident? Tensions come to a head when a digger is found dead, his gold missing, and angry miners form a mob to hunt the Americans down. Neil knows the nearby creeks and scrubland, and he can lead Ivan and Kitty to safety – if they let him."
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The Divine Wind: A Love STory

Garry Disher

Hodder

1998

A young adult novel.

"In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling master, Mitsy the daughter of a Japanese diver. Can their love survive as Japan enters the War and Mitsy encounters prejudice and hate?"
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The Dragon Man

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1999

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"A serial killer is on the loose in a small coastal town near Melbourne, Australia. Detective Inspector Hal Challis and his team must apprehend him before he strikes again. But first, Challis has to contend with the editor of a local newspaper who undermines his investigation at every turn, and with his wife, who attempts to resurrect their marriage through long-distance phone calls from a sanitarium, where she has been committed for the past eight years for attempted murder - his."
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From Your Friend, Louis Deane

Garry Disher

Hodder

2000

A young adult novel.

"When Louis’s parents decide to move from the city to a small coastal town, Louis finds himself at odds with everything around him. He’s an outsider at school where he’s at the mercy of the two school bullies, and misses the city and his friends. The only person he can talk to is the ‘windmill man’, Mr Chatters. Then Mr Chatters’ niece, Tilly, arrives in town and, unexpectedly, Louis discovers he has much in common with her. But are the rumours surrounding Tilly true? Instead of relying on his own judgement, Louis listens to the gossip around him."
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Past the Headlands

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

2001

"Past the Headlands is a sweeping story of north-west Australia and south-east Asia at the beginning of the Pacific War in 1941. The fall of Malaya and Singapore and the bombing of Darwin—what looked like the invasion of Australia—ebb and crash over a man’s long search to find a home and a woman’s determination to keep hers, connected by old memories and new betrayals. It is a thriller and a romance, a story of earth and water, air and metal—an unforgettable ride through the most precarious time in our region's recent history."
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Moondyne Kate

Garry Disher

Hodder

2001

A young adult novel.

"Canongate was a colourful town in 1865 – convicts, a gold rush, marauding bushrangers – but nothing much happens now. Nat Whistler can’t wait to get out of this place. But then he discovers a thrilling link to the past: he’s descended from the Whistler, who robbed banks and gold escorts with the notorious Captain Kydd and was shot dead by troopers at the age of fifteen. And who was the mysterious Moondyne Kate, who could ride like the wind and whose voice sings from the past? The truth is dark, elusive. As Nat peels away the layers and becomes entangled in the shadowy affairs of the town, his life takes a turn into danger."
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Eva's Angel

Garry Disher

Hodder

2003

A young adult novel.

"Eva Hicks has come to Italy for love and art. What she finds in the shifting light of Tuscany are gunshots along the terraced hillsides, the enigmatic Nye and a sense of her misplaced faith. Meanwhile, in a crypt beneath the wintry stones of Venice, Matthew Rennie is cleaning the grime from a medieval fresco. Better here than above ground, where Nye holds sway, masked figures shadow him and people like Eva Hicks throw things into question."
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Kittyhawk Down

Garry Disher

Text Publishing / Allen & Unwin

2003

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"The once-peaceful beach resort of Bushrangers Bay, not far from Melbourne, is the site of multiple crimes that must be investigated by Homicide Squad Inspector Hal Challis of the Mornington Peninsula Police Force and his staff. A toddler is missing; an unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist; cars are being stolen and torched; letter boxes are being burned. And then one of Challis’s own friends, Kitty Casement, who runs an aerial photography service and flies a Kittyhawk, is murdered. Figuring out the connections and identifying the criminals absorbs all the energy and intelligence of this cast of sympathetic but complicated policemen and women."
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Two-Way Cut

Garry Disher

Hodder

2004

A young adult novel.

"Leah Flood is on the run. The cops are after her and she has to keep one step ahead. The irony is that Leah is a cop too. But she’s a cop who made a mistake. Leah knows she’s in the right, but that doesn’t seem to matter to the guys who are chasing her. Then somewhere along a lonely road in the middle of nowhere, Leah meets Tess, who is also on the run. Soon the two young women are being tracked by a ruthless killer. But who is the intended target? And why?"
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Snapshot

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2005

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"It takes months for Australian social psychologist Janine McQuarrie to succumb to her husband's pressure to attend spouse-swapping parties, but eventually she gives in. Then, driving with her young daughter one day, she gets out of her car to ask directions and is shot and killed. The little girl escapes when the gunman's pistol misfires. Inspector Hal Challis of the Crime Investigation Unit is assigned the case, but his efforts are thwarted by his boss. The dead woman was Superintendent McQuarrie's daughter-in-law, and he seems to be more interested in protecting his son than in finding his daughter-in-law's murderer. Who might have a motive to kill this attractive young wife and mother? One of her clients? One of the swingers she'd gotten together with at a party? Or, the obvious suspect, her husband?."
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Chain of Evidence

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2007

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to his boyhood home, Mawson's Bluff in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. There his past comes back to haunt him... and endanger his life. Meanwhile, a serial pedophile is on the loose on the Mornington Peninsula, and Sergeant Ellen Destry, who is left to head up the area's Crime Investigation Unit, must find a little girl who was abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show before it is too late."
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Blood Moon

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2009

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"It's been a busy few days for Inspector Hal Challis. The school year has just ended, and with the sudden influx of rowdy teenagers on break, Waterloo has become a hotbed for petty crimes. But there are also more serious matters at hand. A well-connected chaplain at a prestigious school has been brutally beaten, and a local official has turned up dead. If Challis was having a hard time keeping up with the caseload before, it certainly hasn't helped matters that he's become romantically involved with his colleague Ellen Destry. Challis struggles to maintain a clear head as the crimes mount. Will their relationship derail all they've worked for?."
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Wyatt

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2010

A Wyatt novel.

"Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast. Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this is Eddie Oberin's job. Eddie's very smart ex-wife Lydia has the inside information. Add Wyatt's planning genius and meticulous preparation, and what could possibly go wrong? Plenty. And when you wrong Wyatt, you don't get to just walk away."
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Play Abandoned

Garry Disher

Australian Scholarly Publishing

2011

"Every summer, the country families load the roof racks and motor south to the Bon Accord hotel. They find order here, beside the sea. Constancy in a changeable world. But this time ladders and workmen choke the foyer. There's foreign muck on the menu, posters proclaiming a Summer Festival of Writing. And child abductors are lurking on the sun blasted streets, in the tricky dunes. There's smoke in the hot inland winds. Everything's different this time. This time Marian Parr is not complete. She knows she should not have come. As love fractures, and old certainties crumble, Marian leans grieving against a balcony post, meddling with the cosmos."
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Whispering Death

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2012

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: dressed down by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that's a little too close to home. Not to mention a very clever, very mysterious female cat burglar who may or may not be planning something on Challis's patch. Meanwhile, at the Waterloo Police Station, Challis finds his officers have their own issues. Scobie Sutton, still struggling with his wife's depression, seems to be headed for a career crisis; and something very interesting is going on between Constable Pam Murphy and Jeanne Schiff, the feisty young sergeant on assignment from the Sex Crimes Unit."
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Bitter Wash Road

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2013

Published in the US as Hell to Pay.

"When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road in rural South Australia to investigate reports of gunfire, he finds himself cut off without back-up. A pair of thrill killers has been targeting isolated farmhouses on lonely backroads, but Hirsch's first thought is maybe "back-up" is nearby - and about to put a bullet in him. That's because Hirsch is a whistleblower. Formerly a promising metropolitan officer, he has now been demoted and exiled to a one-cop station in South Australia's wheatbelt. He is called a dog by his fellow officers. Threats come through, in the form of a pistol cartridge in the mailbox. But the shots on Bitter Wash Road don't tally with Hirsch's assumptions. The truth turns out to be a lot more mundane. And the events that unfold subsequently are a hell of a lot more sinister."
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The Heat

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2015

A Wyatt novel.

"Wyatt needs a job. A bank job would be nice, or a security van hold-up. As long as he doesn't have to work with cocky idiots and strung-out meth-heads like the Pepper brothers. That's the sort of miscalculation that buys you the wrong kind of time. So he contacts a man who in the past put him on the right kind of heist. And finds himself in Noosa, stealing a painting for Hannah Sten. He knows how it's done: case the premises, set up escape routes and failsafes, get in and get out with the goods unrecognised. Make a good plan; back it up with another. And be very, very careful. But who is his client? Who else wants that painting? Sometimes, being very careful is not enough."
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Signal Loss

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2016

An Inspector Hal Challis novel.

"A pair of hit men have a very bad day, and the resulting bushfire draws attention to a meth lab and two burned bodies in a Mercedes. As Inspector Hal Challis of the Crime Investigation Unit struggles to link these events to major meth suppliers flooding the Peninsula with drugs, he also finds himself spending valuable time fending off jurisdictional challenges from Melbourne's Major Drug Investigative Division. Meanwhile, Sgt. Ellen Destry, of CIU's sex crimes unit, is hunting for a serial rapist who is extremely adept at not leaving clues."
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Her

Garry Disher

Hachette Australia

2017

"Her name is scarcely known or remembered. All in all, she is worth less than the nine shillings and sixpence counted into her father’s hand. She bides her time. She does her work. Way back in the corner of her mind is a thought she is almost too frightened to shine a light on: one day she will run away."
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Under the Cold Bright Lights

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2017

"The young detectives call Alan Auhl a retread, but that doesn't faze him. He does things his own way - and gets results. He still lives with his ex-wife, off and on, in a big house full of random boarders and hard-luck stories. And he's still a cop, even though he retired from Homicide some years ago. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick - his daughters still convinced he was murdered, the coroner not so sure. Or the skeleton that's just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two wives and a girlfriend, and left no evidence at all. Auhl will stick with these cases until justice is done. One way or another."
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Kill Shot

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2018

A Wyatt novel.

" Some people just work better alone. Wyatt’s one of them. He’s been getting by on nice quiet little burglaries—one-man jobs—when he gets wind of something bigger. A corporate crook, notorious Ponzi schemer, set to face court and certain jail time. He’s about to skip bail the old-fashioned way: on a luxury yacht with a million dollars in cash. Wyatt thinks it sounds like something he should get into. He’s not alone."
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Garry Disher: Omnibus editions

The Wyatt Butterfly

Garry Disher

Text Publishing

2010

A Wyatt omnibus.

An omnibus edition that brings together the two Wyatt novels Port Vila Blues and The Fallout.

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Garry Disher: Non-fiction

Wretches and Rebels: The Australian Bushrangers

Garry Disher

Oxford University Press

1981

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Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft

Garry Disher

Penguin

1983

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Bushrangers

Garry Disher

Illustrations: Rolf Heimann, John Nicholson, Heather Potter and Rebecca Spencer

Cengage Learning Australia

1984

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Total War: The Home Front, 1939-1945

Garry Disher

Oxford University Press

1985

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Australia Then & Now

Garry Disher

Oxford University Press

1987

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Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Marketing Prose And Scripts

Garry Disher

Allen & Unwin

1989

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Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft

Garry Disher

A revised edition of the book first published in 1983

Allen & Unwin

2001

"The art of writing fiction successfully requires not only talent but craft. This book is a guide to that craft - for writers who want to understand and master the basics of what makes a novel or story work well. The principles and sound practical advice offered arise from Garry Disher's own deep experience as a professional writer, as well as a teacher of writing, an editor of collections, and a judge for fiction awards. Disher illustrates his points with examples from many other Australian and international fiction writers, presenting a candid picture of the pleasures and pitfalls across a diversity of fiction-writing experiences. Ranging across from the most significant elements of fiction, such as plot characterisation and voice, to fine details like the use of tense, Disher's hands-on advice can only help fiction writers write better fiction."
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Anthologies edited by Garry Disher

The Man Who Played Spoons

Editor: Garry Disher

Penguin

1987

The contents are:

  • Fit for Camp (Gary Gray)
  • This is How it All Began (Patricia Simpson)
  • The Nick (Jack Beetson)
  • Brown-Skinned Child (Gary Cooper)
  • A House for Them (Caroline Henderson)
  • Loverlee Ripe Tomaters (Patricia Gaut)
  • Exit the Badger (Terry McMullan)
  • In the Embers (Janette Trebilco)
  • Sing Loud for Uncle Harry (Geoffrey Blight)
  • My Mother's Dreaming (Stella Lamb)
  • Strange Country (Malamo Iatrou)
  • The Airmen (Barbara Stapleton)
  • From our Family History (Stefania Buczak-Zarzycka / Alicia Zarzycki)
  • Two Years of Contract Labour (Antanas Birskys)
  • The River (Flora Lee)
  • Dinner Dance (Carolyne Lee)
  • You Girls (Elaine Barker)
  • The Wedding (Rita Caramia)
  • Moving On (Nola Fisher)
  • The Folktellers: The New Cop's Tale (Tania Rae)
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Personal Best: Thirty Australian Authors Choose Their Best Short Stories

Editor: Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1989

The contents are:

  • The Appearance Of Things (Jessica Anderson)
  • Dream People (Barbara Hanrahan)
  • Reading The Signs (Michael Wilding)
  • A Snake Down Under (Glenda Adams)
  • American Dreams (Peter Carey)
  • The Brush Bronzewing (James Mcqueen)
  • Little Helen's Sunday Afternoon (Helen Garner)
  • Sister Ships (Joan London)
  • Amateur Hour (Garry Disher)
  • A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z (Murray Bail)
  • Precious Bane (Gerald Murnane)
  • Through Road (Jean Bedford)
  • Gates (Barry Hill)
  • Ladies Need Only Apply (Thea Astley)
  • The Archbishop Or The Lady (Gerard Windsor)
  • The Commune Does Not Want You (Frank Moorhouse)
  • Junction (Kate Grenville)
  • Wednesdays And Fridays (Elizabeth Jolley)
  • The List Of All Possible Answers (Peter Goldsworthy)
  • The Bodysurfers (Robert Drewe)
  • The Hair And The Teeth (Carmel Bird)
  • My Father's Axe (Tim Winton)
  • Sandcastles (Archie Weller)
  • Inside The Oyster (Morris Lurie)
  • Black Genoa (Beverley Farmer)
  • To Be Congruous With The Sea (Finola Moorhead)
  • Christos Mavromatis Is A Welder (George Papaellinas)
  • A World This Size (John Bryson)
  • Only A Little Of So Much (Fay Zwicky)
  • That Antic Jezebel (David Malouf)
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Personal Best 2: STories And Statements By Australian Writers

Editor: Garry Disher

Angus & Robertson

1991

The contents are:

  • Mango Tree (Janette Turner Hospital)
  • Blue Man (Rod Jones)
  • Catullan Affair (Gwen Kelly)
  • Like The Tail Of A Comet (Jane Hyde)
  • Transparencies (Damien Broderick)
  • Jean (Inez Baranay)
  • Reps (Barry Dickins)
  • Stillborn (Vasso Kalamaras)
  • Collector (Peter Cowan)
  • According To Mrs Maloney (Judy Fuffy)
  • Living With The De Stoops (Laurie Clancy)
  • High Water In Venice (Michele Nayman)
  • Chinese (Nicholas Jose)
  • Primavera (Marian Eldridge)
  • Thylacine (Bruce Bascoe)
  • At Five In The Afternoon (Rosemary Creswell)
  • Figure Wizard (Geoffrey Dean)
  • Old Photo Negatives (Brian Dibble)
  • On Holidays (Antigone Kefala)
  • North Of The Monlight Sonata (Kerryn Goldsworthy)
  • ABC Of Airs And Graces (Kris Hemensley)
  • Five Gazeboes (Marion Campbell)
  • At The Picasso Exhibition (Brian Matthews)
  • Ego In Arcadia (Marion Halligan)
  • Soft (Ania Walwicz)
  • Beneath The Hanging Tree (John Hanrahan)
  • Firemen's Helmets (Thomas Shapcott)
  • Morning Glory (John Morrison)
  • Miss Piper And Everyman (Amy Witting)
  • Box On (Peter Corris)
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Below the Waterline: 31 Australian Writers Choose Their Best Short Stories

Editor: Garry Disher

Flamingo / HarperCollins

1999

The contents are:

  • Mothers And Old Lovers (Gilliam Mears)
  • Stamps (Dorothy Horsfield)
  • Nice Shootin', Cowboy (Anson Cameron)
  • The Engineer's Beard (Catherine Ford)
  • The Boatman Of Lake Burley Griffin (Dorothy Johnson)
  • Embroidery (Marele Day)
  • Ticking (Matthew Condond)
  • Home For Lost Dogs /Barbara Wels)
  • Jumping At The Moon (Venero Armanno)
  • Tsunami (Fiona McGregor)
  • Hung Phat! (Christos Tsiolkas)
  • Out There (Adib Khan)
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