Felicity Castagna

New novel by Felicity Castagna, whose previous book, The Incredible Here and Now, won the 2015 Prime Ministers Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The subject is very topical. No More Boats tackles the fear of refugees head on, portraying the anxieties of a man who was once a migrant...

Winner: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted: Children's Book Council of Australia, Young Adult Fiction Shortlisted: Queensland Literary Awards, Young Adult Fiction Michael's older brother dies at the beginning of the summer he turns 15, but as its title suggests The Incredible Here and Now is a tale of wonder, not of tragedy. Presented as a series of...

A traveller becomes a Monroe impersonator in the casinos of Macau. An obsessive son of Australians living in Jakarta confronts his strange rituals. A young woman is trapped in the boredom of her father's ministry in exotic Borneo. A daughter defies her mother and travels to Bali. Castagna's twenty stories range across countries including Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and China,...