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'When Kelvin returns to his childhood home on the southern coast of New South Wales, he discovers the town is a haven for people like him who are on the run from their pasts. He meets Jessica, a lawyer who has escaped the city, and Carl, an enigmatic American farmer. Both are pursuing new lives and causes inspired by the extraordinary landscape around them. But Kelvin begins to see the darker side of the environmental debate when he becomes drawn into a community of anti-logging activists. As his relationship with Jessica intensifies and implodes, it provokes Kelvin to make a decision with devastating consequences for all of them. No-one is quite who they seem as, deep in these southern forests, the story builds to a dramatic climax.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Human's Changing Relationship to the Non-Human World
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction 2014; (p. 41-55) 'The environmental crises the human species faces are urgent. When the climate change literary critics Adam Trexler and Adeline John-Putra argue that climate change calls for a fundamental re-valuation of ourselves, even while it challenges us to put to use the critical cultural tools we have, 77 they are right. A fundamental re-evaluation is needed in face of the urgency, seriousness, complexity, immediacy, duration and global scope of the problems facing the human species. In the previous pages we have looked albeit briefly at some of the key novels addressing climate change scenarios which we can identify in Australian writing. Can the critics help us refine our concepts a little further?' (41) -
Literary Publishing in a Nutshell
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 183 2006; (p. 23-25)
— Review of Prochownik's Dream 2005 single work novel ; Carry Me Down 2006 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel ; Cusp 2005 single work novel -
An Affinity
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , First Quarter vol. 25 no. 1 2006; (p. 77-78)
— Review of An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel ; Cry Ma Ma to the Moon 2002 single work novel -
In Brief : Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 281 2006; (p. 61)
— Review of An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel -
Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Autumn no. 104 2006; (p. 41-42)
— Review of An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel
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Untitled
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 85 no. 4 2005; (p. 17)
— Review of An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel -
Gloom in Eden
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 15 - 16 October 2005; (p. 5)
— Review of An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel -
Talent in His Nature
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2005; (p. 20-21)
— Review of An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel -
Other Voices
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 October 2005; (p. 16-17)
— Review of The Olive Sisters 2005 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel ; A Room in Bombay and Other Stories 2005 selected work autobiography -
Taking a Look Beyond the Headlines
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 November 2005; (p. 12)
— Review of The Butterfly Man 2005 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist 2005 single work novel -
Literary Award Winner Is No Accidental Storyteller
2004
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column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 30 September 2004; (p. 3) -
Human's Changing Relationship to the Non-Human World
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Climate Change Narratives in Australian Fiction 2014; (p. 41-55) 'The environmental crises the human species faces are urgent. When the climate change literary critics Adam Trexler and Adeline John-Putra argue that climate change calls for a fundamental re-valuation of ourselves, even while it challenges us to put to use the critical cultural tools we have, 77 they are right. A fundamental re-evaluation is needed in face of the urgency, seriousness, complexity, immediacy, duration and global scope of the problems facing the human species. In the previous pages we have looked albeit briefly at some of the key novels addressing climate change scenarios which we can identify in Australian writing. Can the critics help us refine our concepts a little further?' (41)
Awards
- 2006 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2006 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
- 2006 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- 2004 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Manuscript of an Emerging Queensland Author
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- Eden, Eden area, Far South Coast, South Coast, New South Wales,
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