| The Malcontenta | |
| Author: | Barry Maitland |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brock and Kolla |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Hamish Hamilton (UK) Arcade Publishing (US) |
| Release Date: | 1995 |
| Media Type: | Print Hardback & Paperback |
| Pages: | 348 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-241-13461-7 |
| Isbn Note: | (first edition, hardback) |
| Oclc: | 32931955 |
| Preceded By: | The Marx Sisters |
| Followed By: | All My Enemies |
The Malcontenta is a 1995 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Barry Maitland.[1]
Writing in The Canberra Times Peter Bowler noted: "Professor Maitland's writing has all the special strengths that one would expect in an architect: structural soundness, a feeling for the shape and romance of his mise en scene, and, as a bonus for the reader, an element of interesting architectural instruction. More surprisingly, it has none of the classic weaknesses of the profession. He gets on with the job. "[2]
After its initial publication in the uk in 1995 by Hamish Hamilton,[4] the novel was reprinted as follows:
The novel has been translated into German (Ein Hauch von Angst, 1995), French (La malcontenta, 2000) and Italian (Malcontenta, 2002).
"Dedication: For Clare and Alex/With my very special thanks to Margaret, and to those people who have helped bring Brock and Cathy [sic] to print, in particular Kate Jones and Jill Hickson."