Jack Irish, is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.
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Emmy-winner Guy Pearce returns as down-on-his-luck private detective Jack Irish in this cinematic Australian noir series. Even as Jack attempts to rebuild his life, his tragic past resurfaces and pulls him into the fatal depths of Melbourne's criminal underworld. When a man he's ...
When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry amon...
When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry amon...
Peter Temple didn't start publishing novels until he was fifty, but then he got cracking, writing nine of them in thirteen years. When he died, in March 2018, there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. This substantial fragment, entitled High Art, reveals a writer at...
A former criminal lawyer reinvents himself as a part-time private investigator and tries to put his life back together after his wife is murdered by one of his clients.
In Melbourne, Australia, a neurotic, 35 year old woman who loves to count meets an Irish transplant named Seamus Joseph O'Reilly and with some gentle encouragement decides to give love a chance. Can she find a happy medium between her obsession and living life to its fullest?
Jack Irish, is the brooding antihero of Australian writer Peter Temple's award-winning novels. The mystery finds Jack grappling with more personal and professional drama as he continues to investigate crimes in Melbourne's seedy underbelly.
Winner, Ned Kelly Award, Best Crime Novel, 2000 It takes a lot to rattle Jack Irish but, as Melbourne descends into a cold, wet winter, his mood is on the same trajectory. The woman in Jack's life has reconnected with an old flame. He has gambled and lost massively and seen a ...
"Caroline Kearney faced a heartbreaking dilemma. In Melbourne, Australia, 1865, Caroline became a thirty-one-year-old widow and mother of six. Her husband's will, which she hoped would include legal rights to his sheep station, demanded something else entirely: to receive any mon...
The switch to Aussie rules by the Irish Gaelic football player. How he left his country and his move to the Melbourne Football Club and also his Brownlow Medal win.
Becoming Billy Dare follows the life of a feisty Irish boy who runs away to Australia and finds his vocation as an actor in the colourful theatres of Melbourne, around the time of Federation. Paddy secretly boards a ship bound for Australia, only to be shipwrecked at the end of ...