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Leigh Swinbourne

Tasmanian Author, Dramatist & Playwright

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Writer, author and dramatist

About Leigh

About Leigh

Leigh is a writer who above all loves a good yarn. His novels, stories and plays are tightly plotted, suspenseful, with a powerful sense of place. Some have a touch of gothic and the supernatural. Leigh lives in Bellerive, Tasmania, with his wife and two children in a charming weatherboard cottage with views of the Derwent River and Mount … Read More about About Leigh

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Shadow in the Forest

By Leigh Swinbourne

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Cover of Away and other stories by Leigh Swinbourne

Away and other Stories

By Leigh Swinbourne

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Cover of The Shark and other stories by Leigh Swinbourne

The Shark and other Stories

By Leigh Swinbourne

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‘Swinbourne… has created a novel that captures the essence of Tasmania’s recent environmental history’
- The Mercury

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‘The tales’…shapes converge, with a satisfying precision, on the agony of the instant. Swinbourne’ s fiction provokes and entertains, teases and disturbs, with admirable, and unpretentious vitality.’
- The Age
‘(Swinbourne) demonstrates a rare confidence with language that makes for compelling reading.’
- The Weekend Australian
‘Even the shorter stories quickly create an atmosphere of foreboding and menace.’
- The Sydney Morning Herald

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