Blogs in April 2020

The Inland Sea 17th April 2020

A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world. In the early nineteenth century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water – ‘the inland sea’. He never...

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Silver 6th April 2020

A HOMECOMING MARRED BY BLOOD Journalist Martin Scarsden returns to Port Silver to make a fresh start with his partner Mandy. But he arrives to find his childhood friend murdered – and Mandy is the prime suspect. Desperate to...

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The Yield 1st April 2020

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he...

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HIDE 29th March 2020

Like a dark unsettling road movie, Hide takes us on a chilling ride from 80s urban Britain to the menace of the Australian outback. It’s 1983 in Thatcher’s Britain. Alec Johnston has left his comfortable family home in Cardiff...

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Bridge of Clay 4th March 2020

A lost typewriter — A dead dog — The bones of the snake that killed it Matthew Dunbar, eldest of five brothers, is on a journey to find them all. Only then can he tell the astonishing story of...

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