Randolph Stow Books
Randolph Stow was a storyteller with an extraordinary sensibility for landscape and its influence on the human psyche. His works frequently explore the clash of cultures, the nostalgia for lost homelands, and the weight of history. Stow masterfully wove together elements of myth and reality, creating an atmosphere that drew readers into the depths of the human soul and distant lands. His distinctive style, shaped by both the Australian outback and the English countryside, left an indelible mark on modern literature.
Midnite: The story of a wild colonial boy
- 160 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Even though MIDNITE was seventeen, he wasn't very bright. So when his father died, his five animal friends decided to look after him. Khat, the Siamese, suggested he became a bushranger, and his horse, Red Ned, offered to help. But it wasn't very easy, especially when Trooper O'Grady kept putting him in prison. So it was just as well that in the end he found GOLD! A brilliantly good-humoured and amusing history of the exploits of Captain Midnite and his five good animal friends.
Tourmaline
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
There is no stretch of land on earth more ancient than this. And so it is blunt and red and barren, littered with the fragments of broken mountains, flat, waterless. Tourmaline, in outback Western Australia, is dying: its mines lie abandoned and drought has taken hold. When the enigmatic diviner Michael Random emerges from the desert, desperate townspeople see him as a messiah. Random begins to spread the word of God—and to promise them water, that most precious resource. Both a complex spiritual parable and an enduring apocalyptic vision, Tourmaline is Randolph Stow’s most controversial novel.
