Peter Corris
Peter Corris is an Australian author of crime fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction. He is best known for his Cliff Hardy series, but also writes series featuring his characters Richard Browning, Ray Crawley and Luke Dunlop. He is also a historian and a journalist. Born in Stawell, Victoria and raised in Melbourne, he attended secondary school at Melbourne High School. He then attended the University of Melbourne, earned his M.A. in History at Monash University and his PhD in History from Australian National University. Corris enjoys reading, writing, golf, weight training and film. He is married to fellow writer Jean Bedford (who he has three daughters with) and lives in Sydney, Australia.

Peter Corris became a published author in 1973 with the non-fiction book Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914. His debut novel was the Cliff Hardy novel The Dying Trade. Below is a list of Peter Corris’ books in order of when they were first released:

Publication Order of Cliff Hardy Books

The Dying Trade (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
White Meat (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Marvellous Boy (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Make Me Rich (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Empty Beach (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Greenwich Apartments (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deal Me Out (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The January Zone (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
O'Fear (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wet Graves (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Aftershock (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beware of the Dog (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Matrimonial Causes (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Casino (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Reward (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Washington Club (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Black Prince (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Other Side of Sorrow (1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lugarno (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Salt and Blood (2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Master's Mates (2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Coast Road (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saving Billie (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Undertow (2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Appeal Denied (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Open File (2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deep Water (2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Torn Apart (2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Follow The Money (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Comeback (2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dunbar Case (2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Silent Kill (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gun Control (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
That Empty Feeling (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Win, Lose or Draw (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Cliff Hardy Collections

Heroin Annie and Other Cliff Hardy Stories (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Man in the Shadows (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Drop (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Burn, and Other Stories (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Taking Care Of Business (2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Forget Me If You Can (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Big Score: Cliff Hardy Cases (2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Ray Crawley Books

Pokerface (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Baltic Business (1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Kimberly Killing (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cargo Club (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Azanian Action (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Japanese Job (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Time Trap (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Vietnam Volunteer (2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Richard Browning Books

Beverly Hills Browning (1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Browning Takes Off (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Box Office Browning (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Browning In Buckskin (1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Browning P.I. (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Browning Battles On (1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Browning Sahib (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Browning Without a Cause (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Luke Dunlop Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Winning Side (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gulliver Fortune (1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Naismith's Dominion (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blood Brothers (2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Colonial Queen (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Brothers Craft (2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Passage, Port and Plantation: A History of Solomon Islands Labour Migration, 1870-1914 (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lightning Meets the West Wind: The Malaita Massacre (1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The National Times Australian Book of Quizzes (With: Jean Bedford) (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fred Hollows: An Autobiography (With: Fred Hollows) (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ray Barrett: An Autobiography (With: Ray Barrett) (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Round of Golf: 18 Holes with Peter Corris (1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Journal of Fletcher Christian: Together with the History of Henry Corkill (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley and the Moorebank Killings (2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Crosstown Traffic(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hard Labour(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crime Scenes Stories(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Notes: National Times Australian Book of Quizzes was written with Jean Bedford. Fred Hollows: An Autobiography was written with Fred Hollows. Ray Barrett: An Autobiography was written with Ray Barrett.

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Peter Corris Synopsis: In The Winning Side by Peter Corris, Charlie Thomas was born in a humpy camp in the 1920s. He was taught how to fight at a young age. He fights in the backstreets of Queensland during the Depression, and in the Middle East and the Pacific in the Second World War. Now a decorated veteran, Charlie fights on in the cities and the country against racial prejudice, authority and his weaknesses. He has to fight. White Australia tries to keep him on the losing side in the boxing tents, pubs and gaols. Charlie Thomas fights for things like education, justice, hope and love – to make his side the winning side.

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