Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists. He has been published in the UK, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Finland and the US.
Shane’s award-winning and much loved Murray Whelan series — Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In — is characterised by a strong sense of humour and an acute sense of Melbourne’s political and cultural nuances.
Telemovies of Stiff and The Brush-Off, starring David Wenham, were broadcast in 2004. In 2004 Shane also released the comic phrase book, The Happy Phrase, co-authored with Guy Rundle.
Opium dens, illegal brothels and men with names as colourful as their pasts: we uncover Melbourne's criminal record.
Join Ramona Koval, Carmel Bird and Shane Maloney for a mouth-watering tour of literary gastronomy.
A panel of educators, commentators, students and authors debate the question of public education funding.
As part of the Matter of Life and Death series, some of our finest writers discuss tackling death and mortality on th...
