Kenneth Cook

The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood and the coins spun up into the air above his head and dropped down onto the carpet. There was silence. Wake in Fright tells the tale of John Grant's journey into an alcoholic, sexual, and spiritual nightmare. It is the original and the greatest...

A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback onto a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours. He's not far along the road when a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub and...