When Annie overhears an anxious conversation between her parents about the loan on their farm, she decides to enter Runt in the Agility Course Competition at the local fair, which boasts a winner’s purse of $500. Runt, on account of his years eluding capture on the streets, is capable of remarkable speed and acrobatics. While having the two novels released at the same time might not be ideal, it could also work in favour of booksellers and publishers as readers might be encouraged to pick both up at the same time.īooksellers have had a tough year so far but as well as Silvey and Dalton’s novels, they should receive a boost from other Australian novels slated for a late-2020 release including new books from Chris Hammer, Jane Harper and Sofie Laguna.Meet Annie Shearer and her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt.Īnnie Shearer is a solitary girl with a compulsion for fixing things. Publishers are also able to get a sense of sales trends so they can ensure they have enough stock ahead of the holiday period, when it becomes challenging to do big reprints. October is prime time for big-fiction releases − it allows word-of-mouth buzz to generate and sales-boosting book tours to occur before the Christmas period. In a change of pace from Dalton’s record-breaking debut, which was inspired by his childhood in working-class Brisbane, the novel is set in Darwin in 1942 and follows an actress, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot, a sorcerer and a gravedigger’s daughter.

It’s part of the reason why I believe diversity is so vital to our culture.”īook lovers will be spoilt for choice come October, with Honeybee up against Dalton’s highly anticipated second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies, whose release was pushed back from June to September 29 because of the coronavirus. “Between a constellation of letters and a willing reader, disparate lives intersect and adhere, bound by their commonalities and enriched by their differences. A story has the potential to demystify and humanise,” Silvey, 38, who lives in Fremantle, said in a statement. When we live their story on the page, it’s an experience that changes us. “When we submit to a narrator and let them lead us, it’s an exercise in profound empathy. Silvey said Honeybee, his third novel, was a “sincere, hopeful book” about the importance of understanding. Readers will be taken “into a world of petty thefts, extortion plots, botched bank robberies, daring dog rescues and one spectacular drag show”. According to the synopsis, at its heart is the unlikely friendship between teenager Sam Watson and an old man named Vic after they meet on an overpass bridge. The novel is a coming-of-age tale, as was Jasper Jones, set in contemporary Western Australia. Revealed: The new cover of Craig Silvey's first novel in a decade.

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