Peter Fitzpatrick

Mayo Street. It’s a very desirable address. And it seems to promise the perfect suburban dream. Until three of the street’s residents die.   Behind its respectable facades lie some terrible secrets, and in the course of one autumn many of them are shockingly exposed. Relationships come under pressure that not all of them can survive.   Enter a couple...

They shared a name, of course, and their physical resemblance was startling. And both Frank Thrings were huge figures in the landscape of twentieth-century Australian theatre and film. But in many ways, they could hardly have been more different. Frank Thring the father (1882-1936) began his career as a sideshow conjuror, and he wheeled, dealed and occasionally married his way...