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Jon Cleary (born August 11, 1962) [1] is a British-born, American funk and R&B musician, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. [2] Cleary is an accomplished pianist as well as being a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. [3]
Safe Horizon is a 1945 radio play by Jon Cleary. It won equal first prize in an ABC writing competition. [1] The play helped launch Cleary's career as a professional writer. [2] The production was repeated later in the year. Cleary adapted the play into a short story which was published in a 1946 collection of Cleary's stories, These Small ...
The novel took Cleary over eight months to write. He began it during his war service in New Guinea and finished it on a boat trip from Sydney to England after World War II, the same voyage on which he met his wife Joy. [2] Cleary based the book on incidents and people he witnessed when he worked in the Sydney suburb of Paddington at age 18:
Dust in the Sun is a 1958 Eastmancolor Australian mystery film adapted from the 1955 novel Justin Bayard by Jon Cleary [2] and produced by the team of Lee Robinson and Chips Rafferty. The film stars British actress Jill Adams , Ken Wayne and an Indigenous Australian actor Robert Tudawali as Emu Foot.
Dragons at the Party is a 1987 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. [1] It was the fourth book featuring Sydney homicide detective Scobie Malone , and marked the character's first appearance in print in fourteen years.
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Degrees of Connection is a 2004 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Jon Cleary. [1] It was the 20th and last entry in the Scobie Malone series. Cleary decided to stop writing crime novels because he felt he was getting stale. [2]
North from Thursday is a 1960 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. [1] It is set in New Guinea and concerns the eruption of a volcano, forcing a group of survivors to flee across the country. The story is based on the 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington .