Dr Peter Doyle, BA, Phd (born 1951 Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales) is a doctor of Media and Mass Communications, author, musician, and visual artist.
He lives in Newtown, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production, as well as being a part-time as a curator of Sydneys Justice and Police Museum.
Peter Doyle grew up in Syndeys eastern suburbs, which provides much of the setting for his fiction work. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD in Media and Mass Communications on the renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording from Macquarie University (2002).
He also maintains a research interest in comics and the graphic novel, the history of twentieth century popular music, as well as crime writing, both in Australia, and overseas.
He worked variously as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher prior to his first publication, Get Rich Quick in 1996, which won him Australias prestigious Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1997.
He followed this with another successful sequel, Amaze Your Friends, which won him another award, the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1998. His third title, The Devils Jump, released in 2001 was a prequel, and was set in Sydney in the closing days of World War II.
His curatorial work at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum has seen him curate two major exhibitions, Crimes of Passion (2002-2003), and City of Shadows: inner city crime and mayhem, 1912-1948 (November 2005-February 2007), both of which were social histories of inner-city twentieth century Sydney from the point of view of crime scene photography.
His musical style is a mixture of Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes, and his interest in music is a strong influence in his fiction writing.
Awards
Co-winner of 1997 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel for Get Rich Quick
Winner 1999 Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Novel for Amaze Your Friends
Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2006 award for Best Research in Record Labels and General History
2006 National Trust/Energy Australia Heritage Award in the Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government division
Novels (Year - Publisher)
Get Rich Quick (1996 - Minerva)
Amaze Your Friends (1998 - Random House)
The Devils Jump (2001 - Arrow)
Non-fiction
The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (2004 - Currency (co-authored with John Whiteoak and A Scott Maxwell))
City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs, 1912-1948 (2005 - Historic Houses Trust of NSW)
Echo and Reverb (2005 - Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England)
Other Articles
Writing Sound: Popular music in Australian Fiction Altitude, issue.8, 2007 website: http://www.altitude21c.com
Signs and Wonders: Little Richard in Australia, 1957 Meanjin, Vol65, No3, 2006
Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930 Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=67
Lost City Found: interview with Luc Sante, Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=68
From "My blue heaven"to "Race with the Devil": echo, reverb and (dis)ordered space in early popular music recording Popular Music, May 2004 23/1 pp31-49
Three way stretch, UTS Review, November, 2000 6/2 pp126-140
Flying saucer rocknroll: the Australian press confronts early rocknroll music Perfect Beat, July, 1999, 4/3, pp24-47
The socio-semiotics of electricity substations in Social Semiotics, No.1, 1991.
Peter has written feature articles, reviews and short pieces for The Bulletin, HQ and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has also been a columnist for Max and Sydney City Hub.
Dr Peter Doyle, BA, Phd (born 1951 Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales) is a doctor of Media and Mass Communications, author, musician, and visual artist.
He lives in Newtown, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production, as well as being a part-time as a curator of Sydneys Justice and Police Museum.
Peter Doyle grew up in Syndeys eastern suburbs, which provides much of the setting for his fiction work. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) from UTS and a PhD in Media and Mass Communications on the renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording from Macquarie University (2002).
He also maintains a research interest in comics and the graphic novel, the history of twentieth century popular music, as well as crime writing, both in Australia, and overseas.
He worked variously as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher prior to his first publication, Get Rich Quick in 1996, which won him Australias prestigious Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel in 1997.
He followed this with another successful sequel, Amaze Your Friends, which won him another award, the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel in 1998. His third title, The Devils Jump, released in 2001 was a prequel, and was set in Sydney in the closing days of World War II.
His curatorial work at the Sydney Justice and Police Museum has seen him curate two major exhibitions, Crimes of Passion (2002-2003), and City of Shadows: inner city crime and mayhem, 1912-1948 (November 2005-February 2007), both of which were social histories of inner-city twentieth century Sydney from the point of view of crime scene photography.
His musical style is a mixture of Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes, and his interest in music is a strong influence in his fiction writing.
Awards
Co-winner of 1997 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel for Get Rich Quick
Winner 1999 Ned Kelly Award Best Crime Novel for Amaze Your Friends
Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2006 award for Best Research in Record Labels and General History
2006 National Trust/Energy Australia Heritage Award in the Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government division
Novels (Year - Publisher)
Get Rich Quick (1996 - Minerva)
Amaze Your Friends (1998 - Random House)
The Devils Jump (2001 - Arrow)
Non-fiction
The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia (2004 - Currency (co-authored with John Whiteoak and A Scott Maxwell))
City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs, 1912-1948 (2005 - Historic Houses Trust of NSW)
Echo and Reverb (2005 - Wesleyan University Press: University Press of New England)
Other Articles
Writing Sound: Popular music in Australian Fiction Altitude, issue.8, 2007 website: http://www.altitude21c.com
Signs and Wonders: Little Richard in Australia, 1957 Meanjin, Vol65, No3, 2006
Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930 Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=67
Lost City Found: interview with Luc Sante, Scan, vol 2 number 3 December 2005 http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=68
From "My blue heaven"to "Race with the Devil": echo, reverb and (dis)ordered space in early popular music recording Popular Music, May 2004 23/1 pp31-49
Three way stretch, UTS Review, November, 2000 6/2 pp126-140
Flying saucer rocknroll: the Australian press confronts early rocknroll music Perfect Beat, July, 1999, 4/3, pp24-47
The socio-semiotics of electricity substations in Social Semiotics, No.1, 1991.
Peter has written feature articles, reviews and short pieces for The Bulletin, HQ and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has also been a columnist for Max and Sydney City Hub.
