Childhood
A memoir of growing up, parenting, teaching, and discovering what children need most
$29.60
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2026
Summary
Why do some children grow up into happy lives, and others never make it?
Brendan James Murray’s childhood was one of stark contrasts: vivid imaginative adventures but also disadvantage, fear and the shadow of a school he spent months refusing to attend.
When a silhouette on a freeway overpass forces him to confront the ghosts of his own childhood, he has a defining realisation about the extraordinary power of imagination to transform lives, and the degree to which it has been …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761268304 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761268309 |
| Author: | Brendan James Murray |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Picador Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 157mm x 231mm |
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Brendan James Murray
Brendan James Murray is an award-winning author and teacher. He has twice received National Literary Awards from the Fellowship of Australian Writers for his short stories. His first book, The Drowned Man, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime in 2017.
His second book, the critically acclaimed Venom, was featured on the ABC’s Conversations program as part of the ‘Best of 2018’ series. Most recently, The School was selected by the Grattan Institute for the Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List in 2021 and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction.
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