Tag: Geoffrey McGeachin

Blackwattle Creek

Blackwattle Creek

by Geoffrey McGeachin (Viking, 2012)

audiobook read by Peter Hosking (Bolinda, 2012)

Book cover: “Blackwattle Creek” by Geoffrey McGeachin (Viking, 2012); audiobook read by Peter Hosking (Bolinda, 2012)

Plot-wise the second Charlie Berlin novel seems less involved than the first. It remains, however, a consummate portrait of person and place. A very Australian detective story that could just about be classified as feelgood nostalgia (were its underbelly not so dark).

The Diggers Rest Hotel

The Diggers Rest Hotel

by Geoffrey McGeachin (Penguin, 2010); audiobook read by Peter Byrne (Bolinda, 2010)

McGeachin_Diggers Rest Hotel

Former bomber pilot Charlie Berlin is sent to Wodonga to track down a gang of armed robbers. His investigations seem almost peripheral to McGeachin’s purpose: a well-drawn character study of Berlin and of rural Australian society shortly after the Second World War.

 

 

St Kilda Blues

St Kilda Blues

by Geoffrey McGeachin (Penguin, 2014); audiobook read by David Tredinnick (Playaway, 2014)

McGeachin_St Kilda Blues

Though the investigation itself is commonplace, McGeachin immerses his protagonist in the details of history, presenting a time capsule of Australian—in particular, Melburnian—culture in the late 1960s. Stolid ex-WWII bomber pilot Charlie Berlin shows mettle worthy of the character study.