Jock Serong is a writer whose work delves into the complexities of life on the far southwest coast of Victoria. His background as a lawyer informs his nuanced storytelling, offering sharp insights into human nature and societal structures. As a features writer and editor, Serong possesses a keen eye for detail and a profound understanding of narrative craft, which is evident in his compelling prose.
The Java Ridge is a traditional-style Indonesian boat luxuriously fitted out for surfing tours. The Takalar is filled with fleeing refugees including Roya and her mother and Roya's unborn sister and it is having engine trouble. The storm closing in on the Takalar and the Java Ridge will mean catastrophe for them all
• A brilliant literary thriller in the tradition of Peter Temple's Truth, from a rising star of Australian fiction • With over 10K now sold in print and ebook, The Rules of Backyard Cricket has emerged as one of the breakout Australian novels of 2016 • The story of two brothers raised by a single mother who have tremendous cricket abilities and a fierce rivalry. Wally is an upstanding kid who respects authority and is quietly working his way to the top; Darren is a cocky, charismatic troublemaker who has got away with things his entire life—until now • Narrated by Darren from the boot of a car on his way to what's sure to be his own murder, this ambitious literary work is impossible to put down • The Rules of Backyard Cricket was shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction and Longlisted for the 2017 Indie Book Award for Fiction • Now available in an attractive new format and price
Preservation, based on the true story of the wreck of the Sydney Cove, sees master storyteller Jock Serong turn his talents to historical narrative now available in a smaller, competitively priced formatp.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Helvetica}
HIS HONOUR: Mr Jardim, withdraw that comment immediately. MR JARDIM: Your Honour, I'm not withdrawing it because it's got nothing to do with the merits of this case, just as your small-minded treatment of my client has got nothing to do with the merits of the case. I mean, could you have cocked this thing up any worse? Bloody helpless kid and you know she's back out on the street now. You're known throughout the state as a heartless old prick and a drunk, and seeing I've gone this far, your daughter-in-law's appointment to the court is widely viewed as a grubby political payoff. Today's pretty much the lowest I've seen you stoop but it's been a rich field of excrem— HIS HONOUR: Senior, will you have Mr Jardim removed? Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees that the sea air might be good for him. The case is a murder. The victim was involved in the illegal abalone trade and the even more illegal drug trade. And the witnesses aren't talking. And as Dauphin closes ranks around him, Charlie is about to find his interest in the law powerfully reignited.
"Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she knows. Something obsessive. Something to do with a man who bested him thirty-three years ago. Then Srinivas, another figure from that dark past, offers Joshua Grayling the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis. Eliza is horrified. The plan entails a sea voyage far to the south and an uncertain, possibly violent, outcome. Out of the question for an elderly man-insanity for a helpless drunkard who also happens to be blind. Unable to dissuade her father from his mad quest, Eliza begins to understand she may be forced to go with him. Then she sees the ship they will be sailing on. And in that instant, the voyage of the Moonbird becomes Eliza's mission too."_-Provided by publisher