Boy Swallows UniverseThe most extraordinary writer a rare talent' Nikki Gemmell An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good

a Chinese expedition targets the same objective

As her parents spiral around Isabelle's impenetrable silence

Esio Trot is a quirky

taking hundreds of people from their own homes

the long daily walk to school

the nine instantly compelling and intricately connected sections of the novel illuminate the lives of the founders of a nation

she is cast adrift in wartime London with her bohemian filmmaker lover Dougie

Thirty years later

and he is under suspicion of another murder

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