This is my first reader, best friend and wife, Robyn Lisa Bett, sitting in Glebe Point Road, Sydney, one of our favourite places in the world. Itīs also the setting for Jacobīs Air and as much a character in that novel as any of the "characters".
The Chelsea Manifesto (Fremantle Press, 1999)
Launched at the Melbourne Age International Writerīs Festival by Liam Davison.
"Russell has an easy style, a talent for dialogue and an eye that dissects social mores with unassuming clarity ... braves the minefield of family and friendship, love, envy and fond illusion with panache, humour and sanguine cynicism."
Murray Waldron, Weekend Australian
Launched at the Melbourne Age International Writerīs Festival by Liam Davison.
"Russell has an easy style, a talent for dialogue and an eye that dissects social mores with unassuming clarity ... braves the minefield of family and friendship, love, envy and fond illusion with panache, humour and sanguine cynicism."
Murray Waldron, Weekend Australian
Channelling Henry (Fremantle Press, 2003)
Shortlisted for the WA Premierīs Book Awards, 2004.
Launched in West End, Brisbane, by Amanda Lohrey.
"Events tumble after one another in an ever-proliferating onrush of coincidence, seredipity and paranoid delusion, to which the setting of the closing months of 1999 adds an additional layer of frenzied uncertainty. Homicidal Japanese habitues of the Chelsea, a surgical interlude in Montauk - īa picturesque drinking town with a fishing problemī - and the soul swallowing capacities of Gotham are barely half the story."
George OīBrien writing in Antipodes.
Guy Salvidgeīs Blog
Shortlisted for the WA Premierīs Book Awards, 2004.
Launched in West End, Brisbane, by Amanda Lohrey.
"Events tumble after one another in an ever-proliferating onrush of coincidence, seredipity and paranoid delusion, to which the setting of the closing months of 1999 adds an additional layer of frenzied uncertainty. Homicidal Japanese habitues of the Chelsea, a surgical interlude in Montauk - īa picturesque drinking town with a fishing problemī - and the soul swallowing capacities of Gotham are barely half the story."
George OīBrien writing in Antipodes.
Guy Salvidgeīs Blog
Did you know that Fremantle Press (formerly Fremantle Arts Centre Press) maintains extensive back lists for many of its titles? This means that you can order the books described above through any bookshop in Australia. But be patient ... the booksellers themselves donīt always want to know.
You can also buy Bruce L. Russellīs titles through Gleebooks mailorder service, or you can search Amazon.
If you have trouble accessing any of these commercial services, please contact me through this website and Iīll send you an order form.
You can also buy Bruce L. Russellīs titles through Gleebooks mailorder service, or you can search Amazon.
If you have trouble accessing any of these commercial services, please contact me through this website and Iīll send you an order form.
"The artist knows better than the priest wherein true evil lies. He is a devout worshipper and expositor of the glories of creation. He does not preach; he invites us to behold what is written in our hearts."
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
Winner, T.A.G. Hungerford Award, 1995.
Shortlisted for the WA Premierīs Book Awards, 1996.
"Moving, haunting, disturbing, utterly convincing in its portrayal of behaviour and in its capturing of disturbance."
Michael Wilding.