‘Dry, witty, sad, funny and amazingly frank.’
Critical Acclaim: A Saucepan in the Sky
M.T. Glebe, NSW.
‘I particularly empathised with the days which for no reason at all become mood days and that thing about times where nothing “happens”.’
‘I particularly empathised with the days which for no reason at all become mood days and that thing about times where nothing “happens”.’
Tess is experienced and erotic.
Gretl wilful and illusive.
Vicky perverse, vulgar and wounded.
Julie a tantalising trickster...
A provocative and disarmingly honest memoir of a young Australian’s romantic misadventures in 1960s London at the beginning of the Permissive Age. A beguiling and powerful story of love, infatuation, folly, despair and guilt.
‘The most you can expect,’ Uncle Stan said, ‘is for things to almost make sense.’
A Saucepan in the Sky is the story of a boy who thinks anything can be explained if you have the right word − hence his quest for a really big dictionary. But through his family he gets an inkling that a thing called paradox plays a great part in the workings of the world.
Two lost children
A man in search of himself
An unforgiving land
An unlikely romance
A murder...
Matt Hudson is an emotionally damaged homicide detective who has dented his code of honour and lost a clear purpose in life.
A Journey Among Heroes in Search of Final Things.
On a plane bound for London George Brent reveals to a stranger-confidant a plan that is calculated and rational yet filled with poetic imagination. He becomes a knight-errant believing his death is the last remarkable thing that will happen to him.