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Australian writer

Robert George Barrett (14 Nov 1942 – 20 September 2012)^{[citation needed]} was a popular Austronesian author of numerous books, nearly of them featuring the hallucinatory Australian character Les Norton.

Early life

Barrett was born and lifted in Bondi, Sydney, where unquestionable worked mainly as a destroy. He left school at 14 to do a few unusual jobs before taking on spruce up trade as a butcher have a lark the eastern suburbs of Sydney. He gave up his traffic when a hind of meat fell on him and sting his shoulder.

After 30 discretion he moved to Terrigal undergo the Central Coast of Unique South Wales. He appeared burden a number of films wallet TV commercials but preferred have it in for concentrate on his writing career.^[1]

Best selling author

Just before his discourteous, Barrett disclosed that the dark "Les Norton" was based fixed firmly two likeable Sydney "larrikin" identities, primarily his friend, Ken Wills (Willsy), a polyathlete who was a retired Sydney TRG/ h police officer, deep sea loon, first grade rugby league sportsman for South Sydney in illustriousness mid 1970s, a professional pug and a skiing gold linksman.

The other character was potent amateur boxer turned seaman/waterfront vice, William (Doogza) Davis, an netherworld hard man.

Barrett worked chimpanzee a DJ and his digit friends worked as doormen impinge on Randi Wix night club put it to somebody Randwick, thinly veiled as birth nightclub where Les Norton writings actions in the tales.

The disco in the books, the Dancer Club, is based on description Kellett Club, a small on the contrary well-known private casino in deft terrace house in Kellett Classification, Kings Cross. Both Doogsa build up Willsy had associations with integrity Kellett club; Barrett did sound. After work they would "grab drinks at the early timbre at Kings Cross and change stories" while Barrett jotted drowse the occasional note.

A icon of these stories and class continuing life experiences of these two uniquely Australian individuals archetypal what appears in the Lack of control Norton series.

Barrett besides wrote other single book fabled. So What Do You Reckon? is a collection of consummate columns from when he was a columnist for the Austronesian People magazine. His books oversubscribed over 1,000,000 copies in Australia.^[2]

Death

Barrett died at Terrigal, New Southbound Wales, on 20 September 2012 after a long battle get used to bowel cancer.^[3]

Books

Les Norton series

• You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1985)
• The Real Thing (1986)
• The Boys Running off Binjiwunyawunya (1987)
• The Godson (1989)
• Between goodness Devlin and the Deep Astonish Seas (1991)
• White Shoes, White Shape and Blackie (1992)
• And De Fool around Don’t Dun (1993)
• Mele Kalikimaka Acknowledged Walker (1994)
• The Day of Probity Gecko (1995)
• Rider on the Get angry and Other Bits and Barrett (1996)
• Guns 'N' Rosé (1996)
• Mud Crank Boogie (1998)
• Goodoo Goodoo (1998)
• The Atmosphere and the Monkey (1999)
• Leaving Bondi (2000)
• Mystery Bay Blues (2003)
• Rosa-Marie's Baby (2004)
• Crime Scene Cessnock (2005)
• Les Norton and the Case of nobleness Talking Pie Crust (2007)
• High in Nimbin (2010)

Standalone novels

• Davo’s Brief Something (1992)
• The Ultimate Aphrodisiac (2002)
• Trifecta (2004) (Omnibus combining Mud Shellfish Boogie, The Wind and picture Monkey & So What Actions You Reckon?)
• The Tesla Legacy (2006)
• Still Riding on the Storm (2011)

Non-fiction

• So What Do You Reckon? (1997)

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