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Garry Disher

Garry Disher
Garry Disher has published over fifty titles across multiple genres. With a growing international reputation for his best-selling crime novels, he has won four German and three Australian awards for best crime novel of the year, and been longlisted twice for a British CWA Dagger award. In 2018 he received the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award.

Garry Disher reviews 'Personal Best' edited by Tessa Duder and Peter McFarlane

February–March 1998, no. 198 01 February 1998
I appreciate the irony. I deliberately used the title Personal Best for anthologies I once edited (1989, 1991) as a way of saying that there are personal achievements outside the world of sport, and now I am being asked to review an anthology titled Personal Best which is a collection of stories about sport (for young adult readers). The book under review is a theme anthology and it’s worth exa ... (read more)