Christos Tsiolkas

Christos Tsiolkas is an Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter whose work grapples with themes of ethnicity, queerness, class and masculinity. He is especially known for his novels The Slap and Barracuda, which have both been adapted for the screen.

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The In-Between

Christos Tsiolkas

The tender, sensual and moving novel from the award-winning and bestselling author ofThe Slap andDamascus. A compelling contemporary love story between two middle-aged men, told with grace…

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The In-Between

Christos Tsiolkas

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap and Damascus.

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Seven and a Half

Christos Tsiolkas

A breathtakingly audacious novel by the acclaimed author of The Slap and Damascus about finding joy and beauty in a raging and punitive world, about the refractions of memory and…

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Damascus

Christos Tsiolkas

In Damascus, Tsiolkas has written a masterpiece of imagination and transformation: an historical novel of immense power and an unflinching dissection of doubt and faith, tyranny and revolution, and…

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Dead Europe

Christos Tsiolkas

Isaac is a photographer in his mid thirties, travelling through Europe. In his mother’s mountain village he encounters a Balkan vampire. Subsequently as his journey continues across Europe he discovers…

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Barracuda

Christos Tsiolkas

Daniel Kelly, a talented young swimmer, has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His astonishing ability in the pool should drive him to fame and fortune, as well as…

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Merciless Gods

Christos Tsiolkas

A collection of thrilling, original and imaginative stories from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Slap and Barracuda - a showcase all of his immense and unique story-telling talents.

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Loaded

Christos Tsiolkas

Ari is nineteen, Greek, gay, unemployed, looking for something - anything - to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Torn between the traditional Greek world of…

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The Devil’s Playground

Christos Tsiolkas

The first two volumes in the series, which is based on the British Film Institute film studies, will be The Devil’s Playground and The Mad Max Trilogy by Adrian Martin…

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The Slap

Christos Tsiolkas

A novel about the relationships between children and adults, and the new Australian multicultural middle-class. From the controversial cult author of ‘Loaded’ and ‘Dead Europe’.

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The Jesus Man

Christos Tsiolkas

When Tommy is made redundant, he finds the voices in his head becoming louder as he sinks into pornography, violence and madness. He snaps and murders someone who may or…

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On Patrick White: Writers on Writers

Christos Tsiolkas

In this passionate and electrifying short book, Christos Tsiolkas writes about his year spent reading Patrick White, of his ‘discovery and rediscovery of White as a writer.‘ The result is…

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