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In an all-too-recognisable Melbourne of the near future, the lives of three very different women become intertwined.
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Dark and compelling, this is a novel about kindness and cruelty. More than anything else, it explores the importance of human connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
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Published in July 2022
In an all-too-recognisable Melbourne of the near future, the lives of three very different women become intertwined.
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Emily is a researcher at the University, carrying out experiments on overcrowding in rats. Free-spirited Amala is an international student feeling the strong tug of home. Roz is a struggling photographer who has visions of the future, although she tries her best to ignore them.
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When Roz foresees a terrible tragedy, she is finally driven to act. But can she turn things around once a direction has already been set? As events rapidly escalate, all three women will be pushed to their limits and forced to revisit the choices they have made.
Random Acts of Unkindness is a dark and compelling novel about kindness and cruelty. More than anything, it explores the importance of human connection in an increasingly fragmented world.
Hungary, 1956. The height of the Cold War. Three years after the death of Stalin, and the satellite states of the Soviet Union are volatile, on the verge of igniting. Budapest is the place where the tension will explode.
Weaving together interviews with freedom fighters and others who were there, this book will take you on an exhilarating insider's journey through the events of October and November 1956. Here are powerful and sometimes funny stories of student demonstrations, the toppling of Stalin's statue, fierce street fighting against Soviet tanks, and daring escapes. And the book visits Budapest fifty years on, to find out how things have changed.
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* the Age Non-fiction Book of the Week (July 2006)
Molotov Cocktails is a work of non-fiction that reads like a novel. It explores revolution, exile and our ideas of home. Most of all, this is a book about the courage of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events.