![]() ![]() ![]() Neville was joined on the judging panel by Murray Waldren, journalist at The Australian newspaper Anna Low, a Sydney bookseller Craig Munro, book historian and former editor at UQP and Emeritus Professor Susan Sheridan. But the tales she offered it disturbed her. Hester saw a small, plain face that pleaded and couldnt be refused. Because otherwise they merely thrilledthey were only crystals of Aeroplane Jelly: ruby red, licked from the palm, briefly sweet. She has written three previous novels: The Rose Grower The Hamilton Case and The Lost Dog, which won Book of the Year at the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and was longlisted for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction and the 2008 Man Booker Prize. fMichelle de Kretser Laura would beg for the stories attached to these marvels. She was educated in Melbourne and Paris and has worked as an academic, an editor and a book reviewer. Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Michelle de Kretser illuminates travel, work and modern dreams in this brilliant evocation of the way we live now. Her novel is about keeping balance in a speeding, spinning world. She brings these large questions close-up and personal with her witty and poignant observations and her vivid language. The stories intertwine and pull against one another, and within this double narrative, de Kretser explores questions of home and away, travel and tourism, refugees and migrants, as well as “questions of travel” in the virtual world, charting the rapid changes in electronic communication that mark our lives today. Michelle de Kretser’s wonderful novel centres on two characters, with two stories, each describing a different journey. ![]()
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