Paving the New Road (53 page)

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE ROWLAND SINCLAIR SERIES

“ … An elusive killer, a charming sleuth and a historical setting … glossy, original and appealingly Australia.”—
WOMEN’S WEEKLY

“ … replete with comedy, intrigue and the outlandish details of Australian history … Sulari Gentill is an unusually vivid and witty writer. Managing to avoid the common pitfalls of historical fiction, she delivers another daring adventure with a cracking plot, peopled by characters who will charm your pants off.” —
THE AGE

“A historical crime series featuring a wiley detective makes us think of Miss Marple or Inspector Poirot …”
—
ABC RADIO NATIONAL’S THE BOOK SHOW

“ … deserves to be both read and remembered …”
—
AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW

“Fans of classic crime fiction will also be pleased to learn that, with her amateur detective Rowland Sinclair, she has brought back the gentleman sleuth but with a difference: he’s a larrikin Lord Peter Wimsey, with a penchant for living la vie de boheme.”—
SUN HERALD

“This is a very entertaining and lovely book … People who love Kerry Greenwood’s books featuring Phryne Fisher, the very wealthy flapper in 1928 in Melbourne, well, Rowland is your equivalent and these books are very reminiscent … that same attention to the history … that same attention to the luxury and having a central character who has money and is able to go anywhere in the world as a consequence … and we’re in these extraordinary places … I was interested in the colour, movement, history, the sense of Sydney in the 1930s, the sense of place … that is what I loved …”—
ABC RADIO

“ … Rowland Sinclair is a gentleman artist who comes from a privileged background but whose sympathies are with bohemians, lefties and ratbags. It’s a rich political and cultural era to explore and Gentill has a lot of fun with a hero who is always getting paint on his immaculate tailoring.”—
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

ABOUT SULARI GENTILL

Sulari Gentill set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts.

When the mood takes her, she paints, although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write. She grows French Black Truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares with her young family and several animals (the farm not the truffles).

Sulari was offered a Varuna Fellowship in 2009. She was commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ 2008 Jim Hamilton Award, long-listed for the Hachette/Queensland Writers’ Centre Australian Manuscript Development Program for fiction writers, short-listed for the 2008 New Holland Publishers and NSW Writers’ Centre Genre Fiction Award and most recently short-listed for Best First Book for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for her first novel,
A Few Right Thinking Men,
the first book in the Rowland Sinclair Series.

The second book in the series,
A Decline in Prophets
, was released in 2011, and the third,
Miles Off Course
, in 2012.
Paving the New Road
is the fourth book in the series. The fifth book in the series will be published by
Pantera Press
in 2013.

Sulari is also the author of
The Hero Trilogy,
a fantasy adventure series. The first two books,
Chasing Odysseus
and
Trying War
have been released. The third book,
The Blood of Wolves
will be released in 2013.