The Ancient Guild of Tycoons

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University of Queensland Press, 1994 - Fiction - 365 pages
Brucey Bird is the tycoon administrator of an island whose idyllic landscape thinly conceals the shiploads of debris dumped on its shores. Matthew Condon's bizarre imagination creates a wittily pertinent fable of Australian history.

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Contents

Blackjack and Philosophies from the Bunker
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The Captain Sets Sail
46
Wendy Harbour a Leaky Cricketer and
66
Copyright

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About the author (1994)

Matthew Condon is an Australian journalist and writer. He was born in 1962 in Brisbane, Australian. He was educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany. His first book was The Motorcycle Cafe. A Night at the Pink Poodle and The Lulu Magnet both won Steele Rudd Awards for Short Fiction. All Fall Down (book 3 of the Terry Lewis biographies, Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers) won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards Small publishers' adult book of the year. His other books include Usher, The Ancient Guild, The Pillow Fight, and The Trout Opera. Currently, he writes for The Courier-Mail.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Ancient Guild of Tycoons
UQP fiction
UQP paperbacks
AuthorMatthew Condon
PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press, 1994
ISBN0702226890, 9780702226892
Length365 pages
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Fiction / General
History / Australia & New Zealand
  
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