Every story is set somewhere. Eli and his brother Gus's unlikely babysitter, real-life Boggo Road jail escapee Arthur 'Slim' Halliday, puts it Arthur "Slim" Halliday was one of Boggo Road's most famous inmates. Trent Dalton's bestselling debut novel Boy Swallows Universe cemented his place in Australia's literary landscape. "We needed something really raw that was untouched, sort of bleak but …
Novelist Trent Dalton was one of those kids. Regarding the world For author and broadcaster Julia Baird, paying attention began as something like a resolution. It's by paying attention "that we accept the possibility that we can emerge from pain" and live with a settled purpose. Find out more about RN's Big Weekend of Books Photo shows Big Weekend of …
Brisbane-based journalist and first-time novelist Trent Dalton has continued his 12-month wave of success, cleaning up at the Australian Book Industry Awards ceremony in Sydney. Dalton's bestselling saga Boy Swallows Universe, inspired by his childhood, won four ABIAs: Book of the Year, Literary Book of the Year, the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year and Audio Book …