his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris
to Captain Joshua Slocum and Butch Cassidy
she has struggled to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking the Spanish or the English of her people's conquistadors made her less of a black girl
excitement and pathos to keep a dozen less profligate and inventive novelists busy for years
one part Scheherazade' (Ann Patchett) and will appeal to fans of The Sisters Brothers or The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
Boy Swallows Universe Jo Fletcher Books his friend Oscar Wilde isThe most extraordinary writer a rare talent' Nikki Gemmell An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age 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 criminal 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