Sydney: Lothian, 2021 21521398 2021 single work picture book information book children's Abstract 'Now Rachel must face her worst fears: should she take up the fight to help these strangers survive in a society she has rejected for so long' (Production summary) 1 1 y The Book of Australian Trees Inga Simpson, They are running for their lives from a mysterious death sweeping the Australian countryside.
There stand a mother, Hannah, and her sick baby. Fear has led her to a reclusive life on the land, her only occasional contact with her sister.
'It's night, and the walls of Rachel's home creak as they settle into the cover of darkness. A remarkable literary novel from the multi-award-nominated Australian writer Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2021 22587240 2021 single work novel thriller Abstract Award-winning author Inga Simpson writes exquisitely about a national sport you will never view the same way again.' (Publication summary) 1 3 y The Last Woman in the World Inga Simpson, 'Set as the new short form of the game began to gain prominence, Willowman is a love letter to the art and beauty of cricket and a meditation on the inner lives of certain kinds of men and women, for whom it is a way of life. But can Allan's fledgling renaissance - hanging as it does on the magic of that bat - carry on after Harrow is cursed by injury and a strained personal life? 'As Harrow charts a meteoric rise to the highest echelons of the sport, leaving his equally talented sister's dreams in his wake, Allan's magical bat takes centre stage as well, awakening something in Allan and bringing him back into himself. 'When Todd Harrow, a gifted young batter, catches Allan's eye, a spark is lit and Allan decides to make a Reader bat for him, selecting the best piece of willow he's harvested in years to do so. Allan lives alone, all but estranged from his adult daughter, quietly going about his days with the cricket commentary for company. 'Reader Cricket Bats, one of the last traditional batmakers back in the old country, has a contemporary home in the Antipodes, with Allan Reader keeping the family business alive in a small workshop. After two hundred years, cricket bat making is still beholden to a single species: salix alba caerulea - or white willow Batmakers around the world have tried everything, crafting bats from birch, maple, ash, even poplars. For fans of Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland. 'From the critically acclaimed author of Mr Wigg comes an enthralling literary novel about a batmaker and a gifted young cricketer, set around the time the game began changing. Sydney: Hachette Australia, 2022 24937436 2022 single work novel Abstract Fellow writer and friend Inga Simpson helped complete the manuscript' 1 2 y Willowman Inga Simpson, 'Writer and GP Kath O’Connor died from ovarian cancer while working on the final draft of her novel, Inheritance. The Weekend Australian, 11-12 February 2023 (p.
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