Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists. His award-winning and much loved Murray Whelan series – Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In – is characterised by a strong sense of humour and an acute sense of Melbourne’s political and cultural nuances. He has been published in the UK, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Finland and the U.S.