Shaun Prescott

When a spreading fire in the mountains stops his train just outside an almost abandoned town, Bon looks out the window and does what he's always imagined he might—he steps out of his life without looking back. There, he falls into the company of two young brothers, Steven and Jack Grady, both drawn like moths to the chaos of the...

A new edition of Shaun Prescott's internationally acclaimed debut novel, first published in 2017. Accompanies Prescott's follow-up, Bon and Lesley, released by Giramondo in September 2022. It is a town of dwindling fortunes: of petrol stations and fast-food outlets, shopping centres and cul-de-sacs, radio stations with no listeners, buses empty of passengers—a town believed by its inhabitants to have no...