Literature Texts

Robert Drewe - The Shark Net

Robert Drewe : Brief Bibliography
Brief bibliography by Perry Middlemiss, from "Larrikin's Lair"

Drewe Writes of Innocence Lost
Review by Sarah McNeill for Post Newspapers (WA), on the occasion of Robert Drewe's return to Perth for a literary evening after the publication of his memoirs.

Girls, murder and Dunlop Rubber: The Shark Net
DotLit: The online journal of creative writing
Review of Robert Drewe's book by Verity Morgan.

Drewe drama hits screen
From the Post online newspaper.

Review of the novel, The Shark Net, by Ruth Starke
Bonus Reading, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter 2000 (University of Melbourne Publication).

Innocence Lost
Article by Debi Enker. The Age (2003)
Interview with screenwriter Ian David who adapted Robert Drewe's novel for the ABC.

Western Australian Premiers Book Awards (2000)
Judges comments for Robert Drewe's The Shark Net

Lunch with Robert Drewe: Interview by Maxine Mckew
Bulletin with Newsweek, 12/08/2003, Vol. 121 Issue 6385
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Shame and slaughter. Meanjin
A killer is loose in suburban Perth of the 1960s.
Rosamund Dalziell traces patterns of communal and personal shame in Robert Drewe's memoir of this time.
Meanjin; 2002, Vol. 61 Issue 3

The end of innocence - Sydney Morning Herald
Reporter Melissa Kent visits the studio while the film is being produced.
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