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Latest: Vote now for Ian’s first novel Affection
Ian Townsend is a journalist who has been reporting about Queensland’s political and social issues for the best part of two decades.
Courtesy Fourth Estate
His first novel Affection has been shortlisted for the National Year of Reading 2012.
To vote for your favourite Queensland book online, visit the the ABC’s website or drop in to your local library or book shop and fill in a voting slip.
Voting closes on the 6 January 2012.
Affection won much praise from critics and fellow authors and was shortlisted for several awards.
Author and actor William McInnes, in the Adelaide Advertiser, said of the novel:
“I love cricket biographies. I love Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, American realists like John Steinbeck, Faulkner, not that he was a realist really. I like Hemingway. And I tell you what, I read Ian Townsend’s book. Now that was fantastic. I really liked that book. Really graceful writing. Really interesting, too. A cracker.”