Peter Doyle

Peter Doyle’s books include The Big Whatever (2015) and the City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948. He is currently completing a book of forensic photographs to be called Suburban Noir. He is an associate professor of Media at Macquarie University.

Works By Peter Doyle

Passage
Before there were call centres, help desks, delivery bikes and Uber, before labour hire firms and all the rest started offering young people new ways of working long and hard for doubtful return, before the term ‘gig economy’ had come into being –...
11 Sept. 2022
The Last Boogie Woogie
Richard tells me I should meet this old guy he knows, Jimmy Somerville, a strong union man, living legend – he remembers everything, Richard says – including that famous night during the war when tenor player Merv Acheson shot a bloke on stage at
23 Feb. 2020
Stranger In The House
The Slasher case begun in early 1956, when a cluster of disparate reports of prowler activity, break and enters and assaults on sleeping women were registered in the Kingsgrove and Beverly Hills area. The attacks increased in number, then dropped
14 Nov. 2016

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Peter Doyle

Works By Peter Doyle

Passage

The Last Boogie Woogie

Stranger In The House