PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Iconic Australian actor Bryan Brown became an international success in the early eighties with critical acclaim from performances in Breaker Morant and the TV series A Town Like Alice. A stream of Australian hits and Hollywood productions followed including The Thorn Birds, Gorillas in the Mist, FX, Newsfront, The Shiralee, Cocktail, Two Hands, Beautiful Kate, Along Came Polly, Australia and in 2019 Palm Beach which he produced and starred in. In a 40-year career Bryan has appeared in over 80 films and worked in some 25 countries. This achievement earned him the prestigious Longford Lyell Award at the 2018 AACTAs recognising his contribution to Australian cinema.
"""When I say dazzling I mean it: Sweet Jimmy is an extraordinary piece of work in several ways and sometimes novel hardly seems like the right word. More often it seems like the results of a prowling investigation of various crime scenes, most of them in and around Sydney, and these are rendered with brilliant idiomatic control. . . . A strikingly original approach to material we may feel we've already read and seen enough, and if Brown ever decides to leave acting there is clearly another career waiting for him."" --Sydney Morning Herald ""A series of short stories steeped in humour, violence, pathos and inner-city Australian sensibility. . . . The tongue in cheek here is planted so firmly on occasions you can see the bulge becoming permanent. . . . This entire collection was enormous fun - laughed out loud a lot, and finished up hoping that Brown is contemplating a longer form foray into a genre which he must love. He's definitely good at acting in it, and now it turns out, pretty good at the authoring side as well.' --Aust Crime Fiction"
