Last Drinks

Last Drinks

First edition
Author	Andrew McGahan
Cover artist	Nada Backovic[1]
Language	English
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Allen and Unwin, Sydney
Publication date	2000
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	377pp
ISBN	1-86508-406-9
OCLC	47033960
Preceded by	1988
Followed by	The White Earth

Last Drinks is a 2000 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Andrew McGahan.^[2]

Ten years after the Fitzgerald Inquiry into Queensland police, disgraced lawyer George Verney hears of the death of an old friend in Brisbane, so he travels back there to help arrange the funeral, and to try to find out what caused his friend's death.

• Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2001: winner^[3]

• Author's note: This is a work of fiction. While obviously inspired to some degree by the Fitzgerald inquiry and its era in Queensland, this is not, even for a moment, an historic or factual version of those times. In particular, no character in this book should be mistaken for any actual person, living or dead.^[4]
• A stage version, adapted by Shaun Charles, premiered at Brisbane's La Boite Theatre in August 2006.^[5]

• "Aussiereviews" Book Review: Last Drinks, by Andrew McGahan
• "The Australian Public Intellectual network" Australian Public Intellectual [API Network]

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