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Dorothy Johnston's eighth novel, Eden was published in September 2007.
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Dorothy has achieved national recognition for her literary fiction. Both One For The Master (1997) and Ruth (1986) were short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Dorothy's fifth novel, and her debut crime novel, The Trojan Dog, was joint winner, ACT Book of the Year 2001, runner-up in the inaugural Davitt Award for the best crime novel published by a woman in 2000, and The Age Best of 2000, crime section. The second book in the series, The White Tower was published in 2003. The Trojan Dog was published in the United States by St Martins Press in March 2005. The House at Number 10 was published in October 2005.
Dorothy Johnston can be contacted through her publishers, Wakefield Press, on on email at dorothy.johnston@hugonet.com.au
Dorothy Johnston's books can be ordered directly from Wakefield Press.
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| Eden |
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‘Acclaimed Canberra crime fiction writer  Dorothy Johnston is quick to point out that her latest book’s cover – featuring a man pulling on stockings – and plot about a cross-dressing politician, is not based on Alexander Downer.
Or any other politician, for that matter, she said at the launch of her new crime novel Eden.
Sure, the federal Foreign Affairs Minister once donned fishnet stockings as a stunt, but Johnston said the victim in her latest work was fictitious.
And in any case her victim was an independent candidate in ACT politics…
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| The House at Number 10 |
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Sophie Harper is abandoned by her husband, not for another woman, but a 'raft of girls - a floating, open-ended freedom.' Left with a four-year-old daughter to support , Sophie finds work in an old house in Canberra that is being used as a brothel. While the laws governing prostitution are being re-written, Sophie combines caring for her daughter with working in the house. She waits - for the sanction of legality, for the renovations designed by her architect friend Ann to be approved, and for her suspicious ex-husband to find out how she is making her living.
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