In addition to being a sports writer, literary editor and Walkley-winning investigative journalist, he has written sixteen books of non-fiction as well as five acclaimed novels. Knox is one of Australia’s most prolific and versatile writers. The cover of Australian author Malcolm Knox’s new novel The Wonder Lover features three pairs of wedding-ringed hands caressing a shadow – and the novel takes up the topic of bigamy with enthusiasm. While the bigamy plot was all the rage in the Victorian age – from sensational thrillers like Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret or Wilkie Collins’s Man and Wife, to canonical classics like Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre or Thackeray’s Vanity Fair – apart from Alice McDermott’s curious meta-fictional debut novel, A Bigamist’s Daughter or Anita Shreve’s The Pilot’s Wife, bigamy has been more the province of memoir than fiction in recent years.
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