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David Whish-Wilson

David Whish-Wilson

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David Whish-Wilson is an acclaimed crimewriter and academic who grew up between NSW, Singapore, Victoria and WA. He left Australia aged eighteen to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, petty criminal, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug-trial guinea pig. He now lives in Fremantle and coordinates the creative writing program at Curtin University.

Books by David Whish-Wilson

Zero at the Bone

By the author of the acclaimed Line of Sight, Zero at the Bone lifts the lid on Perth at the start of the mining boom to show a town where Chinatown meets Underbelly, and where the establishment and the lawless blend into one.

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Line of Sight

Line of Sight is classic crime noir, a tale of dark corruption set in a city of sun and heat.

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