Deal Me Out (24 page)

Conservationists and whalers confront each other on the seas, townspeople bicker and connive in the streets, while, in the midst of it all, a marriage collapses and an old man, stalked by death, flees his past and the God of his forefathers.

This complex and ambitious novel won Tim Winton the 1984 Miles Franklin Award, confirming him as one of Australia’s most promising literary talents.

‘Shallows is a profound and inspiring work of fiction.’

David Myers,
The Age

‘I finished this book with a rare sense of elation.’

Donna Sadka,
West Australian

‘… his fiction is full of care, in all three senses – of craftsmanship, of moral concern, and of a sobriety before the facts of life.’

Don Anderson,
National Times

Brian Castro

Birds of Passage is the powerful and haunting story of Seamus O’Young, an Australian-born Chinese, on a collision course with the past.

He reconstructs his past through the eyes of Shan, an ancestor who came to Australia in the 1850’s. And, just as Shan was driven from the goldfields by depravity, racism and sheer greed; so Seamus finds himself, a century later, fighting for his own life and sanity.

Birds of Passage was a joint winner of the 1982 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.

Suddenly, the Middle East is teetering on the brink of all-out war – and this time, it may be too late to pull back…

• The leadership of the PLO has been swept aside by one of the new breed of guerilla fighters – the sophisticated and ruthless AL JAZZAR (The Butcher).

• Simultaneous PLO attacks in Jordan and France unleash a bitter struggle to overthrow the Hashemite monarchy, and raise the spectre of uncontrolled terrorism raging through European capitals.

• A Russian spy is exposed at the heart of the Israeli government – shaking the Jewish state to its very foundations.

In the midst of all this, Israel is threatened with a desperate, bloody battle for survival against forces which seek the complete liberation of all Palestine…

As AL JAZZAR surges towards its savage, unexpected conclusion, this alarmingly believable novel shows that in the volatile world of Middle East politics, nothing can be taken for granted…

AL JAZZAR was joint winner of the Australian/Vogel Award for 1981.

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Nigel Krauth

Matilda, My Darling is a stirring and imaginative story, set amid the turmoil and tension of the shearers’ strike of the 1890’s.

Private detective Hammond Niall begins what he thinks is a routine investigation into a bush murder. But he and his travelling companion, ‘Banjo’ Paterson, are soon caught up in a world which seems to be sliding into civil war.

As the plot unfolds against this background of violence and confrontation the murder investigation becomes an enquiry into the very basis of the society of the day. And for Paterson, the period means both the trauma of the end of his engagement – and the writing of ‘Waltzing Matilda’.

Matilda, My Darling was a joint winner of the 1982 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.