Last Train to Menindee dystopian this contemporary fiction celebrates resilience

this contemporary fiction celebrates resilience

A legacy that binds them for generations

WINNER: Gold Rush by Zachary Pryor (Open Category)

and deeply heartfelt memoir of fathers and sons

Last Train to Menindee dystopian this contemporary fiction celebrates resilienceGenre: Outback Memoir There's solace in asylum, but the voices never rest. When a half submerged body appears at Menindee Lakes, a mother overwhelmed by the trauma of her youngest sons schizophrenia insists police abandon further enquiry. Thirteen years later, her only remaining son travels from Queensland to outback Menindee on the banks of the Darling River. Here, he unfolds a past inextricably tied to the chaos of his younger brother's life journey