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Boy swallows universe / Trent Dalton.

Now a major Netflix series, starring Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown and Anthony La Paglia. An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But if Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum. A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.
Author: Dalton, Trent
Published: Sydney, NSW : Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2024.
Published: ©2018
466 pages ; 20 cm

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Things she would have said herself / Catherine Therese.

Meet Leslie Bird, the irascible matriarch of a big bonkers family, coming of age and to the boil, as the secrets and slights that have shaped her and her hapless husband's lives impact their children in the most profound and complex ways. In other words, everyone's story. Sort of. Because this is a story, and family, like none you've ever read before. Things She Would Have Said Herself is a darkly funny, deeply moving novel about the lengths and breadths one woman will go to ignore her own and others' pain and what happens when she's confronted by it one sweltering Christmas day. A story of motherhood, marriage, madness, unspeakable loss and the heartbreaking messy love that holds a family together. Honest, revealing, resonant and startlingly original, if you loved Olive Kitteridge and Boy Swallows Universe, you will love this book!
Author: Therese, Catherine, 1965-
Published: Gadigal Country ; Sydney, NSW : Hachette Australia, 2023.
Published: ©2023
375 pages ; 24 cm

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Boy Swallows Universe [electronic resource]

Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But if Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And, oh yeah, he has to break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day, to save his mum. A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.
Author: Dalton, Trent
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : 4th Estate, 2018
1 online resource (1 text file)

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Boy Swallows Universe [electronic resource]

Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It’s not as if Eli Bell’s life isn’t complicated enough already. He’s just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way – not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.But now Eli’s life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he’s about to meet the father he doesn’t remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams.A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year.
Author: Dalton, Trent
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/HarperCollins audio, 2018
1 online resource (1 audio file)

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Boy swallows universe [sound recording] / Trent Dalton ; read by Stig Wemyss.

Brisbane, 1985: A lost father, a mute brother, a junkie mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crim for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli Bell's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way, not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer. But now Eli's life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he's about to meet the father he doesn't remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams.
Author: Dalton, Trent
MP3 edition ; Unabridged.
Published: Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2018]
Published: ℗2018.
1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (16 hr., 42 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.

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A rural escape / Rachael Johns, Jennie Jones, Eva Scott.

Outback Ghost -- Rachael Johns Adam Burton tried to keep his family together after his little sister went missing from the family farm. But twenty years later, his dad has walked out, his mum is reclusive and he still blames himself. When Stella Reynolds and her young daughter Heidi arrive at the farm's holiday cottage, Adam is drawn to the beautiful single mum. As the twenty-year old mystery begins to unravel, Stella wonders if she should take her daughter and run. Stella only wanted a holiday...the last thing she expected was to be haunted by Bunyip Bay...or to be falling in love with a gorgeous, but hurting, farmer.
The House at the Bottom of the Hill -- Jennie Jones When Charlotte Simmons buys a bed-and-breakfast in Swallow's Fall, Snowy Mountains, she plans to jazz up the old place, flip it--and get close to the one man who might have answers about her mother's mysterious death. Charlotte doesn't count on opposition from the town council, and the hotshot owner of Kookaburra's Bar & Grill. Daniel Bradford knows progress is slow in Swallow's Fall. He's finally about to upgrade his hotel when a prim-and-proper, citified redhead blows into town. Daniel knows trouble when he sees it--but soon it becomes very clear that he can't contain Charlotte or the way he feels about her.
Red Dust Dreaming -- Eva Scott Elizabeth Langtree has her life in order--safe, organised, planned. Until her family send her to Australia to collect her orphaned nephew. Australia is nothing like she expected, and Elizabeth soon falls under the spell of the Outback--and the seriously sexy station owner, Caden Carlyle, who has been caring for Luke since the death of her sister. Elizabeth must choose between duty and the dictates of her heart to determine the future of a devastated little boy. In the battle of duty versus desire, only one can survive the hot Australian sunshine.
Author: Johns, Rachael
Published: Sydney, NSW : Harlequin Mira, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty Ltd, [2016]
Published: Sydney, NSW Harlequin Mira, an imprint of Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty Ltd, [2016]
Published: ©2016
855 pages ; 24 cm.

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The magic hamster / Pamela Butchart, Becka Moor.

Three more stories of primary school mayhem as 2F set out to solve the real mysteries of life. What is the school mashed potato really made of? When Lauren swallows a fly, will she actually turn into one? And who, or what, is Robot Boy?
Author: Butchart, Pamela
Published: London : Nosy Crow, 2016.
Published: ©2016.
94 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Wigglesbottom Primary

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The house on Burra Burra Lane / Jennie Jones.

A dilapidated house, a city girl looking for a tree change, and a rugged vet with a past. Just another day in rural Australia...Ethan and Sam both have secrets that neither is willing to share...But in a town like Swallow's Fall, nothing can be hidden forever. Just ten days after her fresh start in the isolated Snowy Mountains, Samantha Walker trips over a three hundred pound pig and lands in the arms of Dr. Ethan Granger - and the firing line for gossip. It was hardly a 'date' but sparks of the sensual kind are difficult to smother in a community of only 87 people. Now there's a bet running on how long she'll stay and what she'll get up to while she's in town. Ethan has his own issues - Sammy's presence in his childhood home brings with it painful recollections of family scandals and a bad-boy youth. When the gossip around them heightens, his life is suddenly a deck of cards spread on the table for all to see. Then Sammy's past catches up with her...and it looks like all bets are off.
Author: Jones, Jennie
First Australian paperback edition.
Published: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Harlequin Mira, 2014.
Published: ©2013
291 pages ; 24 cm.

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