A time when, for two hopeless souls, sex and dependence were the only lifelines. A time when the dole was easier to get than a job, when heroin was better known than ecstasy, and when ambition was the dirtiest of words. "Praise" is an utterly frank and darkly humorous novel about being young in the Australia of the 1990s.
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Canada-Australia Literary Award. Perfect for long-time fans or for those new to the series, they're a wonderful reminder of the ambition and intelligence that made McGahan such an essential writer.Winner of The "Australian"/Vogel Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in the Pacific Region. But these taut, thrilling and powerfully imagined stories catapulted me back into the excitement and delight of the original quartet. Do you dare to set sail?' -Margo Lanagan'I didn't think I could love Andrew McGahan's Ship Kings universe more than I already do. These are some deep, dark, fantastical adventures.
Its captains and crew, both real and ghostly, find equal parts horror and wonder in their path. It couldn't be-But then the cry went up from the main deck.'Ropes! White ropes!'And so the horror began.A ship and its crew held in thrall by an ancient sea creature, a young girl blinded by foresight, a scapegoat with a gift to foresee death - these haunting short stories set in the Four Isles, the setting of Andrew McGahan's highly acclaimed Ship Kings series, tell fascinating tales of tall ships, ancient grudges and the full significance of the meaning of indefinite survival in an ocean that holds as many mysteries as it does drops of water.'A fitting end to the epic Ship Kings series, Treasures of the Deep moves with mysterious grandeur through lost oceans and wild. He turned: the scapegoat was pointing a fleshy arm directly down at the water, and following it Roland saw a mass of pale, stringy lines suddenly seething up from the deeps to surface all about the ship.He froze in disbelief. Print Treasures of the Deep: More Tales of the Ship KingsĪn atmospheric collection of stories set amid the oceans, seas and tall ships of the Ship Kings - from the CBCA shortlisted author of The Coming of the Whirlpool and the Miles-Franklin-award-winning novel, The White Earth.
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