Browsing by Author "Bydder, Jillene"
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Better than Biggles: Michael Annesley’s ‘Lawrie Fenton’ spy thrillers.
(Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ), 2015)Captain F.A.M. Webster, the athlete, athletics coach and author who lived from 1886 to 1949, wrote a series of fifteen spy thrillers under the pseudonym of Michael Annesley. His hero, Lawrie Fenton, is a lively and laid-back ... -
The detective and the Sagas: Erlendur in the novels of Arnaldur Indriðason
(POPCAANZ, 2016-12)Arnaldur Indriðason’s Erlendur novels are popular crime fiction stories set in Iceland. Detective Erlendur Sveinsson’s team deals with serious crimes, murders, and missing persons. Their cases are contemporary, but Indriðason ... -
A mixed digital / physical snapshot of early internet / web usage in New Zealand
(ACM, 2009)We are in the early stages of developing a unique physical and digital record of New Zealand's early experience of the Internet. -
Rare Birds: Memorable women characters in spy thriller fiction, 1888-2000
(Annual Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ), 2018)Women characters in spy thrillers may be essential to the action, like Vesper in Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, and they can be a pleasure to meet, like E. Phillips Oppenheim’s delightful Miss Edith Brown in Miss Brown of ... -
‘Red Snow on Their Boots: Russian characters in spy thriller fiction published during the two World Wars': 1-10
(Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ), 2017)When we think of spy thriller fiction, and especially of spy thriller fiction written at any time during the Cold War, we think of Soviet or Russian villains. Russian or Soviet characters, some portrayed as heroic and some ...
