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Michael Burge

@burgewords

Journalist @GuardianAus; contemporary and historical crime author of TANK WATER (@MidnightSunOne) and THE WATCHNIGHT (coming soon from @HistriaBooks) 🏳️‍🌈

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I'm looking forward to chatting with author Suzanne Leal this weekend about her new novel 'The Watchful Wife' | Check out all her regional book tour dates via burgewords.com/2023/11/14/cri… #AuthorTalk #AustralianFiction

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BOOK DEAL NEWS: My second novel will be released globally by Histria Books and IPGbook. A bold reimagining of the early settlers of Jenolan Caves this historical mystery is a gothic frontier tale like no other. gleninnesexaminer.com.au/story/8675831/… #HistoricalFiction #OutbackNoir

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With the world going slightly bonkers at the moment, making peace in our communities is critical. My take on finding common ground on the courts... theguardian.com/australia-news… #SocialCohesion #Tennis #Wimbledon #Wimbledon2024

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It's been a long journey for Steve Johnson to get the kind of answers any family would need about the killing of a loved one. My piece in today's Guardian Australia theguardian.com/australia-news… #LGBTQ #LGBT

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It’s almost September! Time to book for BADCrimeSydney at State Library of NSW with talks, walks, true crime and fiction panels, workshops and pitching sessions galore! #CrimeFiction #TrueCrime

It’s almost September! Time to book for <a href="/BADCrimeSydney/">BADCrimeSydney</a> at <a href="/statelibrarynsw/">State Library of NSW</a> with talks, walks, true crime and fiction panels, workshops and pitching sessions galore! #CrimeFiction #TrueCrime
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Labelled 'grandly messy' by 1997 critics, Bruce Beresford's 'Paradise Road' tanked at the box office. I explore why it's a film for our era, and that it's time for another look | burgewords.com/2024/08/01/tak…… #ParadiseRoad #GlennClose #CateBlanchett #WarMovie

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Big question from Gabrielle Chan in today's Guardian Australia: "... for rural and regional communities, there is an added challenge. That is: how to live with no way of getting basic facts about our communities in the absence of a local news service." theguardian.com/australia-news… #rural

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Why all the fuss about counting #LGBTQ in the census? Parliament couldn’t wait to ask the public how many wanted to let us marry, and suddenly they’re shy about counting how many of us there are? #BeConsistent #Auspol2024

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This year's BADCrimeSydney festival is coming up from September 11-14, so it was time for some thoughts about why I write about crime... burgewords.com/2024/09/01/bey… #CrimeFiction #TrueCrime #Justice