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Peter Barry

2017 Publisher Picks

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January–February 2018, no. 398

To complement our 2017 ‘Books of the Year’, we invited several senior publishers to nominate their favourite books – all published by other companies.

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We All Fall Down by Peter Barry

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November 2012, no. 346
Denise O'Dea reviews 'We All Fall Down' by Peter Barry

Hugh Drysdale, thirtyish, appears to have it made. An ambitious account manager with a Sydney advertising agency, he seems poised for a dazzling career. Confident of future success, he has installed his wife and son in a palatial house by the sea – with a palatial mortgage to show for it.

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I Hate Martin Amis Et Al.  by Peter Barry

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June 2011, no. 332

Milan Zorec, protagonist of I Hate Martin Amis Et Al., walks into the London office of a literary agency that has rejected his novel and terrorises the agent before going to jail, where he decides to travel to besieged Sarajevo in order to vent his spleen by assassinating innocent civilians. In the light of this, and for other reasons, a reviewer of this disquieting, artful novel must ...