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Locust Summer

2021 novel by David Allan-Petale

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ137342819 ↗
Source-derived summary

Locust Summer is a 2021 book by the West Australian journalist David Allan-Petale. The book, which was Allan-Petale's debut novel, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Western Australian Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer.

Plot

Locust Summer is set in 1986. A man named Rowan Brockman reluctantly returns home to his family farm to help with the harvest after a decline in his father's health and the death of his brother, while the family prepares to sell the property.

Reception

Locust Summer was reviewed in The Age, Westerly, The Australian, and The West Australian.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Locust Summer” as 2021 novel by David Allan-Petale. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021. The account is most persuasive where Locust, Summer and novel can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 novel by David Allan-Petale. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137342819. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 1986.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Locust Summer”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Locust Summer primary sources, Locust Summer archive and Locust research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Locust Summer”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Locust Summer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.