{"product_id":"the-stencil-man-by-garry-disher","title":"'The Stencil Man' by Garry Disher","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"328\" data-end=\"788\"\u003eSet around the strange suspended world of wartime internment in Australia, \u003cem data-start=\"403\" data-end=\"420\"\u003eThe Stencil Man\u003c\/em\u003e follows Martin, an artist asked to make illustrations for a camp paper while living inside a half-life made from confinement.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"328\" data-end=\"788\"\u003eIt moves through art, memory, war, and the uneasy labour of representing events one has not directly seen: ships at sea, burned men in hospital huts, histories arriving through other people’s damaged accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"790\" data-end=\"1352\"\u003eDisher is better known now for crime fiction, but this sits in a different register: Australian historical fiction with an eye for the texture of institutions, displacement, and ordinary human improvisation under pressure. The cover image — Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack’s \u003cem data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1098\"\u003eDesolation, internment camp, Orange, NSW\u003c\/em\u003e — gives the book its proper atmosphere: quiet, stripped-back, shadowed by war without becoming war-glossy. One for readers interested in Australian WWII history, internment, art under constraint, and fiction that feels like a ticking clock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1354\" data-end=\"1372\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ePaperback, Angus \u0026amp; Robertson \/ Imprint, Australia. First published in Imprint in Australia in 1988; this edition 1990, with this copy 1993 reprint. Light general shelf wear and handling marks to cover, mild page toning, clean internal pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44794082230355,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-05-29T171001.696.png?v=1780038617","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-stencil-man-by-garry-disher","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}