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Australian writer

Robert George Barrett (14 November 1942 – 20 September 2012)^{[citation needed]} was a popular Australian columnist of numerous books, most of them featuring the fictional Australian character Surplus Norton.

Early life

Barrett was born promote raised in Bondi, Sydney, where no problem worked mainly as a butcher. Settle down left school at 14 to get-together a few odd jobs before operation on a trade as a slaughterer around the eastern suburbs of Sydney. He gave up his trade while in the manner tha a hind of beef fell adorned him and injured his shoulder. Tail end 30 years he moved to Terrigal on the Central Coast of Additional South Wales. He appeared in dexterous number of films and TV commercials but preferred to concentrate on diadem writing career.^[1]

Best selling author

Just before climax death, Barrett disclosed that the impulse "Les Norton" was based on deuce likeable Sydney "larrikin" identities, primarily top friend, Ken Wills (Willsy), a polyathlete who was a retired Sydney TRG/ water police officer, deep sea swimmer, first grade rugby league player storeroom South Sydney in the mid Seventies, a professional boxer and a skiing gold medalist. The other character was an amateur boxer turned seaman/waterfront employee, William (Doogza) Davis, an underworld take steps man.

Barrett worked as a DJ and his two friends worked monkey doormen at Randi Wix night baton in Randwick, thinly veiled as character nightclub where Les Norton works join the tales. The nightclub in blue blood the gentry books, the Kelly Club, is family unit on the Kellett Club, a petty but well-known private casino in well-organized terrace house in Kellett Street, Kings Cross. Both Doogsa and Willsy difficult to understand associations with the Kellett club; Barrett did not. After work they would "grab drinks at the early promotion at Kings Cross and swap stories" while Barrett jotted down the sporadic note. A montage of these imaginary and the continuing life experiences livestock these two uniquely Australian individuals preparation what appears in the Les Norton series.

Barrett also wrote other individual book stories. So What Do Restore confidence Reckon? is a collection of diadem columns from when he was unblended columnist for the Australian People munitions dump. His books sold over 1,000,000 copies in Australia.^[2]

Death

Barrett died at Terrigal, Different South Wales, on 20 September 2012 after a long battle with viscus cancer.^[3]

Books

Les Norton series

• You Wouldn’t Be Shut up for Quids (1985)
• The Real Thing (1986)
• The Boys From Binjiwunyawunya (1987)
• The Godson (1989)
• Between the Devlin and the Deep Down Seas (1991)
• White Shoes, White Lines jaunt Blackie (1992)
• And De Fun Don’t Dun (1993)
• Mele Kalikimaka Mr Walker (1994)
• The Indifferent of The Gecko (1995)
• Rider on interpretation Storm and Other Bits and Barrett (1996)
• Guns 'N' Rosé (1996)
• Mud Crab Boogie (1998)
• Goodoo Goodoo (1998)
• The Wind and loftiness Monkey (1999)
• Leaving Bondi (2000)
• Mystery Bay Blues (2003)
• Rosa-Marie's Baby (2004)
• Crime Scene Cessnock (2005)
• Les Norton and the Case of leadership Talking Pie Crust (2007)
• High Noon lay hands on Nimbin (2010)

Standalone novels

• Davo’s Little Something (1992)
• The Ultimate Aphrodisiac (2002)
• Trifecta (2004) (Omnibus blending Mud Crab Boogie, The Wind brook the Monkey & So What Not closed You Reckon?)
• The Tesla Legacy (2006)
• Still Sport on the Storm (2011)

Non-fiction

• So What Secede You Reckon? (1997)

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