Salt River Road by Molly Schmidt

Salt River Road by Molly SchmidtIntroducing an exciting new voice in Australian fiction, Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is a compelling coming of age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s. In the aftermath of their mother's death, the Tetley siblings' lives are falling apart. Left to fend for themselves as their family farm goes to ruins, Rose sets out to escape the grief and mess of home. When she meets

Then Mel comes face-to-face with a mighty grizzly

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community leader and anti-racism advocate Adam Goodes and political adviser and former journalist Ellie Laing

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Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour

its arts funding and advisory body

A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666

and is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a result

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