Vortex by Rodney Hall - ISBN: 9781761560767
Paperback
Fragments of 1954 swirl, chance connections shape a hidden future.
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Vortex

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  • Paperback

    464 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2024

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Summary

WINNER OF THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025

we only need to tease out the first stray thread, such as the lingering wake left by a white ship forging through grey light to where a thousand seabirds disappear from the collapsing sky … and we’ve begun

It is 1954, but not the same way the history books would have it. Events and characters swirl in a vortex of fragments and chance connections.

Brisbane celebrates the young Queen Elizabeth II’s arrival on her first royal tour o…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761560767
ISBN-10:176156076X
Author:Rodney Hall
Publisher:Pan Macmillan Australia
Imprint:Picador Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:27 August 2024
Weight:494g
Dimensions:233mm x 157mm x 33mm
About The Author

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall came to Australia in 1949 as a migrant child. He left school in Brisbane on his sixteenth birthday and worked at various base grade retail and clerical jobs. He returned to the UK and Europe in 1958 with a view to staying permanently. During what turned out to be a 9,000 kilometre walk around Europe, west and east, which took three years, he wrote two novels (one of which was lost), came to terms with himself-as he puts it-and committed to his ambition to live as a writer. On returning to Brisbane in 1961 he secured regular work with ABC radio as scriptwriter for schools education programs, supplementing his income by playing and teaching early music. Since then he has won two Miles Franklin Awards, his novels have been widely published and translated into many languages, and he has been twice presented with the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society.

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