This turns out to be Vic, an old man who had suicidal plans of his own… As the story begins, we find ourselves up on a bridge over a freeway, with Sam ready to jump, until we see another figure at the end of the bridge. It’s the story of Sam Watson, a confused teenager who’s had enough of his life and is ready to put an end to it all. Jasper Jones was published back in 2009, and amazingly it’s taken Craig Silvey eleven years to follow up the succes of that book with another novel, Honeybee (review copy courtesy of Allen & Unwin). It’s the first new book in over a decade by a well-known Australian author, and an engaging story about the growing pains of a young boy – and perhaps of a girl… As a result, I had a few review copies drop through my letter book, and while I’m usually too busy with fiction in translation to get to them, one did catch my eye. Runt is his first novel for Younger Readers.Much has been made of the glut of books that came out at the start of September in the northern hemisphere, but Australia had a similar event last week, with a sort of Super Tuesday. In 2022, Honeybee was voted Number 1 in the Better Reading Top 100. Honeybee was the 2020 Dymocks Book Of The Year, won the Indie Book Award for Best Fiction, and was shortlisted for both the Literary Fiction Book of the Year at the 2021 ABIA Awards and the Adult Fiction Book of the Year at the ABA Booksellers’ Choice Awards. His third novel, Honeybee, published in 2020, is an award-winning bestseller. Jasper Jones was the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for 2010. Printz Award Honor, and a Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisting. Published in over a dozen territories, Jasper Jones has won plaudits in three continents, including an International Dublin Literary Award shortlisting, a Michael J. His bestselling second novel, Jasper Jones, was released in 2009 and is considered a modern Australian classic. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Rhubarb, was published in 2004. Honeybee was the 2020 Dymocks Book Of The Year, won the Indie Book Award for Best Fiction, and was Craig Silvey is an author and screenwriter from Fremantle, Western Australia. Craig Silvey is an author and screenwriter from Fremantle, Western Australia.

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