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Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon was born in Brisbane and has lived in the UK, Germany and France. He has written ten books of fiction, including The Trout Opera and is the author of the bestselling truecrime trilogy about Queensland crime and corruption – Three Crooked Kings (2013), Jacks and Jokers (2014), All Fall Down (2015), and Little Fish are Sweet (2016). He is also the author of The Night Dragon (2019).

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Brisbane

Matthew Condon

November 2020

Brisbane reveals a city of wooden houses where mango trees abound, where the serpentine river seems to be of the city and yet somehow not, where ghostly memories of demolished landmarks like Cloudland and The Bellevue Hotel hover and where the chime of the City Hall clock echoes through time and place.