The Malcontenta is a 1995 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Barry Maitland.
Critical reception Writing in The Canberra Times Peter Bowler noted: "Professor Maitland's writing has all the special strengths that one would expect in an architect: structural soundness, a feeling for the shape and romance of his mise en scene, and, as a bonus for the reader, an element of interesting architectural instruction. More surprisingly, it has none of the classic weaknesses of the profession. He gets on with the job. "
Awards
Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner
Publication history After its initial publication in the uk in 1995 by Hamish Hamilton, the novel was reprinted as follows:
Penguin, UK 1996 Arcade, USA, 2000 Orion, UK 2000 Penguin, USA 2001
The novel has been translated into German (Ein Hauch von Angst, 1995), French (La malcontenta, 2000) and Italian (Malcontenta, 2002).
Dedication
"Dedication: For Clare and Alex/With my very special thanks to Margaret, and to those people who have helped bring Brock and Cathy [sic] to print, in particular Kate Jones and Jill Hickson."
Notes This is the second novel in the author's Brock and Kolla series. The title of this novel as published in the U.S. is The Malcontenta: A Kathy and Brock Mystery
Reviews "Australian Crime Fiction database" "Italian Mysteries"
See also 1995 in Australian literature
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