An urgent generational novel by a talented Australian writer. When two frustrated artists take jobs at a remote weather station in Australia's Northern Territory--in hopes of finding solitude and inspiration--their journey affords an unflinching, original, and at times, hilarious look at what it ...
The Bukowski-inspired first novel that made McGahan a cult bestseller Down Under, "Praise" is urgent, raw, and piercingly truthful, as it explores the ground between dreams and the self-destruction of an entire generation. A sequel to McGahan's "1988".
4.5 ★sThe publicity blurb for this intriguing book touts it as Part family saga, part history and part gothic thriller. This is a pretty accurate description of a grim but compelling story.The title does not reflect any reality, but rather is a reference to the White family who once owned a large...
To be soaring again—high in the atmosphere, two shadow shapes, the wind a thin shriek in their ears, their real bodies left behind unwanted and forgotten in the crematorium. The orphan didn’t know how far they had come from her little island, all she knew was that they had flown from night into d...
My brother wanted me dead. You might be wondering, interrogators, how I could have sat by passively in that snooker room and let someone else tell me how my life was going to be from now on. But you have no idea what it’s like to hear that your own flesh and blood has ordered your execution. Not ...
NORTHWARD BOUND The Chloe departed Haven Diaz next morning, under a grey sky and in the face of a cold north-east wind. After clearing the bay, they turned north once more along the coast. By day’s end, the stony shores of Valignano had given way to the fertile fields of Castille, the largest and...
Three of the village elders had travelled with the winter traders all the way down to the lowlands, and when they returned at last, with the thaw set in and the river rising with snowmelt, they announced that a place for Dow had been found among the fisher-folk. There was an old man in a sea vill...