Robert G. Barrett

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1985
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Les Norton

1 - You Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids (1985)
2 - The Real Thing (1986)
3 - The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya (1987)
4 - The Godson (1989)
5 - Between the Devlin and the Deep Blue Sea (1991)
6 - White Shoes, White Lines and Blackie (1992)
7 - Les Norton's Back In and de Fun Don't Done (Aug-2001)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • You Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids

    Les Norton - 1

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON You Wouldn't Be Dead For Quids is a series of adventures involving Les Norton, a big red-headed country boy from Queensland who is forced to move on the big smoke when things get a li...

  • The Real Thing

    Les Norton - 2

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON It isn't every day you help murder someone with poison in an illegal casino, whisk his body halfway across town in a Rolls Royce, after robbing him, then bury his body in tonnes of co...

  • The Boys from Binjiwunyawunya

    Les Norton - 3

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON There's no two ways about Les Norton-the carrot-topped country boy who works as a bouncer at Sydney's top illegal casino. He's tough and he's mean. He's got a granite jaw , fists like...

  • The Godson

    Les Norton - 4

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON Les Norton thought they were going to be the easiest two weeks of his life. Playing minder for a young member of the Royal Family called Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-...

  • Between the Devlin and the Deep Blue Sea

    Les Norton - 5

  • White Shoes, White Lines and Blackie

    Les Norton - 6

    All Norton wanted was a quiet coffee and Sacher cake at the Hakoah Club in Bondi, and to be left alone to sort out his troubled love life. How he let notorious conman Kelvin Kramer talk him up to Surfers Paradise for five days, Les will never know. S...

  • Les Norton's Back In and de Fun Don't Done

    Les Norton - 7

  • Trifecta

    two classic Les Norton adventures in one volume, plus Robert G. Barrettᱠoutrageous columns on life in Australia PLUS the ultimate Les Norton trivia challenge. Mud Crab Boogie Oogie oogie oogie, do the Mud Crab Boogie. Look out Wagga Wagga 埌es Nor...

  • Full Strength

    The ultimate Les Norton collection no.2 A collection of three of Bob Barrett's Les Norton stories. LEAVING BONDI - Les figured by tossing $50,000 into the Gull's movie he'd become the next Sam Goldwyn. Only someone put a bomb on the film set. And who...



  • Ordinary Days

    COME ALONG WITH ME TO A TIME PAST WHEN THE WORLD WAS DIFFERENT BUT DANGEROUSâ€"SPUTNIK, SPACE RACE, KOREA, A SHADOW WORLD OF UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS, SPIES, CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS, THE WORLD STANDS AT THE EDGE OF NUCLEAR WAR,THE INTERGRATION OF CENTRAL HI...

  • Maximum Security

  • High Noon in Nimbin

    Arranging the hit on Fabio was a low act, and Les knew it. And when you get Sydney’s deadliest killer to do the hit, there’s always a quid pro quo. In this case, Les had to take a trip to Nimbin in New South Wales to help an old army mate of E...

  • Mystery Bay Blues

    Australia's favourite larrikin is back - Les Norton is on the road, and rockin'... Just when everything was going so good, Les slips a disc in his back. He can't run, he can't train. He can't do anything much. But he can still drive his car. So it's ...

  • Rider on the Storm and Other Bits and Barrett

    Robert G. Barrett is a self-confessed antagoniser of the literary elite and a master of political incorrectness. For more than a decade now, Robert G. Barrett has been entertaining Australians with the cocky Queenslander Les Norton and his outrageous...

  • Rosa-Marie's Baby

    Robert G. Barrett's latest Les Norton adventure is action, humour, and intrigue with a diabolical twist, proving once again why Barrett is called the king of Australian popular fiction. If it wasn't for a letter lost in the system for decades landing...

  • The Ultimate Aphrodisiac

    Aussie Vietnam veteran Ron Milne is on a good thing growing Indian hemp on the tiny Micronesian island of Lan Laroi. Besides being President, the natives treat him as a god. To the American DEA he is a dangerous criminal. US President Clifford J. Clo...

  • Guns 'n' Rose

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON Norton needed a holiday-anywhere-as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige-Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Bren...

  • Goodoo Goodoo

    Les Norton off to Far North Queensland!What should have been a quick gig on a radio station followed by a white-water rafting holiday in North Queensland becomes a four-wheel drive trip to Cooktown with Norton looking for two missing SCUBA divers. th...

  • Leaving Bondi

    Les Norton is back! Les figured by tossing $50,000 into the Gull's movie he'd become the next Sam Goldwyn. Only someone put a bomb on the film set. And who gets the blame Now Norton's a fugitive from the law, desperate to prove his innocence. Satanis...



  • Mud Crab Boogie

    Extreme Water Polo is the water polo of the 90s. And when Les Norton catches the semi-final on tV he is amazed to see that the man behind Extreme Polo is his old mate, Neville 'Nizegy' Nixon. So when Neville calls out of the blue and asks Les to driv...

  • So What Do You Reckon?

  • Davo's Little Something

    All easy-going butcher Bob Davis wanted after his divorce was to get on with his job, have a few beers with his mates, and be left alone. But this was Sydney in the early Eighties-the beginnings of the AIDS epidemic, street gangs, gay bashings and mu...

  • And de Fun Don't Done

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON They don't call him Lucky Les for nothing. A ticket in a raffle and Norton was off to see to US of A-Siestasota, Florida, where it turned out hot, red hot, and it wasn't just the weat...

  • Between the Devlin and the Deep Blue Seas

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON Okay, so it looks like the Kelly Club is finally closing down-it had to happen sooner or later. And it isn't as if Les Norton will starve. He has money snookered away, he owns his hou...

  • Crime Scene Cessnock

    All it took was a summer's day and a flat tyre on his push-bike, and Les is out on bail and on the run from a gun-happy street gang intent on a drive-by. So, with Warren's help, Les Norton defendant, becomes Len Gordon film director, safely enscon...

  • Les Norton and the Case of the Talking Pie Crust

    Les is quite happy resting up after the flu when Warren has to tip him into an earn. Norton's mate from the Albanian Mafia, Bodene Menjou, is planning to make the most politically correct movie ever made in Australia, Gone With the Willy Willy, an...

  • Rider on the Storm

    Robert G. Barrett is a self-confessed antagoniser of the literary elite and a master of political incorrectness. For more than a decade now, Robert G. Barrett has been entertaining Australians with the cocky Queenslander Les Norton and his outrageous...

  • The Tesla Legacy

    The Tesla Legacy, set in Newcastle, Muswellbrook, Scone and the mysterious Burning Mountain in New South Wales, is an action-packed, pace-driven thriller woven with intrigue and a delightful touch of humour and romance, and an ending guaranteed to se...

  • The Wind and the Monkey

    A week's holiday in Shoal Bay, courtesy of Price Galese. All Les had to do was help Eddie Salita get rid of a crooked cop. Why not? Les always wanted to visit Port Stephens. And nobody liked Fishcake Fishbyrne that much anyway. The first night in tow...



  • The Day of the Gecko

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON When Les Norton moved into his old flame Side Valve Susie's flat in Bondi for a few days while she was out of town, everything should have been a piece of cake-except Price and Eddie ...

  • Mele Kalikimaka Mr Walker

    NOW AN ABC TELEVISION DRAMA STARRING DAVID WENHAM AND REBEL WILSON Les Norton's Hawaiian holiday should have been just like in the tourist brochures. Balmy days, blue seas, palm trees swaying in the moonlight. And it would have been if Les had have m...

  • Still Riding on the Storm

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert G. Barrett has published 32 books.

Robert G. Barrett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Still Riding on the Storm, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Robert G. Barrett, You Wouldn't Be Dead for Quids, was published in January 1985.

Yes. Robert G. Barrett has 1 series.
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