John Egan is a misfit — "a twelve year old in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant" — who diligently keeps a "log of lies." John's been able to detect lies for as long as he
M. J. Hyland is the award winning and Man Booker shortlisted author of Carry Me Down. Her third novel, This Is How, is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the wor
Lou Connor, a precocious, gifted, and unhappy sixteen-year-old, is offered a place as an exchange student in the United States, something that she hopes will take her far away from her bleak life of
Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student placement at a school in America it seems as if her dreams
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A twelve-year-old boy in the body of a grown man with the voice of a giant, John Egan is a misfit who diligently keeps track of the lies that are told to him by his family, friends, and even news anch
Absence and disappearance provide recurring themes in these 10 stories assembled from the BBC International Short Story Award competition: the abandonment of family members, estranged wives and errant
Boland and fellow Australia and New Zealand-based forestry scholars present this fifth edition describing forest trees of Australia, encompassing 178 eucalypt species and 121 non- eucalypt species and
