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Bernard Cohen

The Blindman's Hat:
"4 stars... This hilarious prize-winning thriller is set in New York where Vernon, an Australian journalist in cahoots with his small dog (whose poetic-cum-philosophic observations punctuate Vernon's narrative), decides to pursue a wild affair, instead of his oddly successful career in journalism. Giving up work, he investigates a friend's sinister disappearance. When his newspaper starts suing, even kidnapping him, Vernon suspects his columns had, in the past, betrayed financial secrets. Eclectic, paranoid and barbed, this is a brilliantly original, appealing orgy of intelligence, humour and lust." (UK) Mail on Sunday

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Snowdome:
Snowdome is a tale of two histories. In the present: Tinnitus is the spirit of the age. William comes home, flicks the radio on, turns it up. His head is full of noise. William and in his friends live in Sydney, a mumbling city. They think about the future, and thinking hurts. In the future: Sydney has been emptied out by economic forces and re-opened as a museum. The museum guide's task is to describe the city's history to tourists. He can no longer tell if that history is true or if he has made it up. He hears the firmness in his voice on the cassette tapes and he keeps his doubts to himself.
"Snowdome may be the single most brilliant work of intellectual fiction to have emerged from Australia in recent years". Paul Hardacre, (Brisbane) Courier-Mail

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Note: Bernard’s first novel, Tourism, is not available from Amazon. Email trace@ntu.ac.uk for availability details.