This Kingdom of Dust
The stunning new novel from the author of The Midnight Watch
$21.75
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
5 August 2025
Summary
Shortlisted for THE AGE Book of the Year.
‘Pacy, exciting and often unexpectedly moving storytelling.’ - THE AUSTRALIAN
‘Is this all?’
That’s the question Joan asks as she surveys her neat, suburban home and her perfect children. It’s July 1969 and her husband Buzz is walking on the Moon. In Houston, Joan folds laundry and smiles for the cameras.
Outside, the world is on fire - assassinations, Vietnam, civil rights and women demanding to be heard. But Joan is s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761343506 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761343505 |
| Author: | David Dyer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 5 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 248g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
David Dyer
David Dyer grew up in a small, coastal town in New South Wales. After school, he pursued an eclectic career that included studying medicine, travelling the world in merchant ships, and working as a lawyer in Sydney and London. Upon his return to Australia, he decided to embrace his lifelong love of literature, and so became an English teacher and writer. In 2013, he was awarded a doctorate in creative arts, and in 2016 published The Midnight Watch, a novel about the ship that witnessed the Titanic’s distress rockets but failed to respond. He then turned his attention to space, a fascination sparked in early childhood by the book You Will Go to the Moon, and later by the wonder and wisdom of Carl Sagan. In 2019, David was lucky enough to meet moonwalkers Buzz Aldrin and Charlie Duke at a gala celebration of the Apollo 11 mission, where he was inspired anew by the vision and courage of those who dared to leave our small Earth and explore the depths of space.
David currently lives in Sydney, where he teaches, writes and makes cocktails.
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