David Dyer

Like the moon landing itself, a feat of enormous ingenuity imagining the lives of the Apollo mission heroes, and those on planet earth in the tumultuous 1960s. You'll never look at the Moon in quite the same way ever again. - Ceridwen Dovey The whole world has just watched Neil and Buzz walk on the Moon. Now they are struck...

David Dyer's astonishing novel The Midnight Watch is based on the true story of the SS Californian, the ship that saw the Titanic's distress rockets and yet, unfathomably, did nothing. A psychological thriller, the novel shows how sometimes the smallest of human failings can lead to the greatest of disasters. As the Titanic was sinking slowly in the wretchedly cold...

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...