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Patrick Kennedy

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Born

in Sydney, Australia

Website

http://www.longbay.net.au

Genre

History, Crime

Influences

Ted Kennedy; Pauline Curby;

Member Since

November 2013

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Patrick Kennedy has had an exciting life. He was a Nurse, Intensive Care Ambulance Paramedic and a Media Consultant and a news writer for many organisations.

He started writing books in 1999 and has written four well sought after books. The most exciting was You Must See Some Terrible Things which takes you on a 'buckle your seat belt' white knuckled ride through his career as a Paramedic. Keep your emotions in check as you go with him on emergencies in the home, in car accidents and plane crashes.

He began writing his latest book Long Bay in 2013 and it was published in 2018. This is a unique blend of storytelling and history, weaving true crime into painstaking research. Kennedy takes the reader back more than a century when the original ...more

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Average rating: 4.4 · 45 ratings · 11 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Long Bay 4.32 avg rating — 28 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Must See Some Terrible Things: Australian Ambulance Officers At Work 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Long Bay to Malabar - A Village By the Sea 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Bottle Forest to Heathcote - Sutherland Shire's First Settlement 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Long Bay in shops

Long Bay has now been officially launched by the Commissioner of Corrective Services and the Minister at Long Bay Correctional Centre. LONG BAY is now available in shops and www.longbay.net.au

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The Clockmaker's Secret (Slim Hardy Mysteries, #2)

by Jack Benton

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Dear Dad by Doug Webster (1995-04-21)

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Read the first book called Outback. Quite good. This one full of gratuitous swearing and blasphemy. Very lazy writing. It was not that good anyway so I shut the covers and moved on. Did not finish.
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Patrick rated a book it was ok The Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Very repetitive. Very slow. I got a third through it and had to stop. My first Piccoult book. Glad others love her.
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Quite implausible plot. Unrealistic. But quite well written. I could not finish it.
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