<p>unforgettable tale of the other side of Australia's heritage</p>

It's Raining in Mango: Pictures from the Family Album

Literature & Fiction

Thea Astley

Contemporary

Penguin Books Australia

The Slow Natives

Penguin

The multiple effects of rainshadow

Penguin??Books

In her flat above Drylands' newsagency, Janet Deakin is writing a book for the world's last reader. Little has changed in her 50 years, except for the coming of cable TV. Loneliness is almost a religion, and still everyone knows your business. But the town is being outmanoeuvred by drought and begins to empty, pouring itself out like water into sand. Small minds shrink even smaller in the vastness of the land. One man is forced out by council rates and bigotry; another sells his property, risking the lot to build his dream. And all of them are shadowed by violence of some sort these people whose only victory over the town is in leaving it.

Drylands: A book for the world's last reader

Viking Australia

Beachmasters

Rainbow Publishing

Leverson, the narrator at the centre of these stories, calls himself a "people freak." Seduced by north Queensland's sultry beauty and unique strangeness, he is as fascinated by the invading hordes of misfits from the south as by the old established Queenslanders. Leverson's ironical yet compassionate view makes every story, every incident, a pointed example of human weakness―or strength.

Hunting the Wild Pineapple

Literary

Bolinda Audio

Allen& Unwin

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