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'In one way or another, isn't everyone on the run?
'A survivor of Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around the country to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night.
'When There's Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run. (Publication summary)
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Dedication: For L.D. and my family.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also large print.
- Also dyslexic edition
Works about this Work
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The Big Short
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 May 2016; (p. 8) -
Restless Fictions
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2015;
— Review of Fever of Animals 2015 single work novel ; When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story ; The Promise Seed 2015 single work novel -
More Vogel Verve
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 373 2015; (p. 59)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story -
Well Read
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 July 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story ; Close to Home 2015 selected work short story -
Everyday People in Peril Find a Voice of Empathy
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33) The Saturday Age , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story
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Less Is More in Depicting the Torn Bits of Ordinary Lives
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30-31 May 2015; (p. 16-17)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story -
Everyday People in Peril Find a Voice of Empathy
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33) The Saturday Age , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 33)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story -
Well Read
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 July 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story ; Close to Home 2015 selected work short story -
More Vogel Verve
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 373 2015; (p. 59)
— Review of When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story -
Restless Fictions
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , September 2015;
— Review of Fever of Animals 2015 single work novel ; When There's Nowhere Else to Run 2015 selected work short story ; The Promise Seed 2015 single work novel -
Melbourne Author Keeps It Short to Achieve Goal
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 21 April 2015; (p. 5) -
The Big Short
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 May 2016; (p. 8)