Электронная книга: John Birmingham «He Died With a Felafel in His Hand»
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John Birmingham
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John Birmingham (born 7 August 1964) is an
Biography
John Birmingham grew up in Ipswich,
While a law student he was one of the last people arrested under the state's Anti Street March legislation. Birmingham was convicted of displaying a sheet of paper with the words 'Free Speech' written on it in very small type. The local newspaper carried a photograph of him being frogmarched off to a waiting police paddy wagon.
Birmingham has a degree in international relations.Fact|date=March 2008
Published Works
Birmingham was first published in "
Birmingham is most notable for the novel "
Other works by him include the "The Search for Savage Henry" a crime novel featuring the character Harrison Biscuit, "How To Be A Man", a semi-humorous guide to contemporary Australian masculinity and "Off One's Tits", a collection of essays and articles previously published elsewhere. He also spent four years researching the
He has also written two small pocket books "
Birmingham has also written two "Quarterly Essays" (Black Inc. an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd) "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy" and "A Time for War: Australia as a Military Power".
In September 2006, Birmingham wrote a piece in "The Australian" lambasting
In Birmingham's response he attacked her as "
Axis of Time Trilogy
In 2004 he published "Weapons of Choice", the first in the
The series tells of a
The third and final book in the trilogy, "Final Impact", was released in Australia in early August 2006, and was released in the US in January 2007. There are now two new Birmoverse books in the works, one set shortly after the end of the war, and another in the alternate 1980s, said to feature a dashing young RAF pilot:
Without Warning
Without Warning, the first book in a new stand alone universe, was released in Australia in September 2008. The novel, separate from the
A second novel, tentatively titled After America, will follow the first.
Notes
External links
* [http://birmo.journalspace.com John Birmingham's personal blog]
* [http://blogs.brisbanetimes.com.au/bluntinstrument/ John Birmingham's "Brisbane Times" blog, Blunt Instrument]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1147826.htm ABC Queensland story on Birmingham]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/arts/headspace/rn/booksw/leviathan/default.htm ABC Radio National story on "Leviathan"]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/so-whats-wrong-with-greers-comments/2006/09/08/1157222325364.html Tracee Hutchison's response to Birmingham's Greer article in "The Age"]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/death-becomes-an-excuse-to-savage-elites/2006/09/07/1157222262395.html Clive Hamilton's response in the "Sydney Morning Herald"]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200608/s1723613.htm Articulate story on the Axis of Time trilogy]
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