Firelight by John Morrissey

Firelight by John MorrisseyAn imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister. A controversial business tycoon leaves his daughter a mysterious inheritance. A child is haunted by a green man with a message about the origins of their planet. In this striking collection of stories, the award winning John Morrissey investigates colonialism and identity without ever losing sight of his characters' humanity. Brilliantly imagined and masterfully observed, Firelight

met with the realities of the present

briefly one of the countrys most successful and controversial Aboriginal painting collectives

It features short reviews

WINNER: CBCA Book of the Year

After selling out its first three print runs and having poems selected for Best of Australian Poems 2021 by Australian Poetry

one made up of shady cops on the take

and she will forever be marked by this association

and she can't imagine putting her skates on again

June Hayward is literally nobody

they suffered the most unbearable hardship on arrival on Australian land where a near-famine dictated that rations be cut to the bone

reassuring and all about keeping sex fun

dialects and customs