FICTION Cover design: Lisa White Cover photograph: Getty Images ‘Masterfully controlled, lingers long in the memory.’ ROHAN WILSON, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost In one way or another, isn’t everyone on the run? A survivor of Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around the country to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night. When There’s Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there’s nowhere else to run. ‘Assured, witty and wise.’ STEPHEN ROMEI, Literary Editor, The Australian ‘Vivid and compelling.’ JENNY BARRY, BooksPlus
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Winner of The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2015, Murray Middleton's When There's Nowhere Else To Run.
In one way or another, isn't everyone on the run?
When There's Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run.
'Assured, witty and wise.' Stephen Romei, Literary Editor, The Australian
'Vivid and compelling.' Jenny Barry, BooksPlus
'Masterfully controlled, lingers long in the memory.' Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost
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F I C T I O N
Cover design: Lisa White Cover photograph: Getty Images
‘Masterfully controlled, lingers long in the memory.’ ROHAN WILSON, author of The Roving Party
and To Name Those Lost
In one way or another, isn’t everyone on the run?
A survivor of Victoria’s Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around the country to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his
tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house
in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night.
When There’s Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics.
Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South
Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put
between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there’s nowhere else to run.
‘Assured, witty and wise.’ STEPHEN ROMEI, Literary Editor, The Australian
‘Vivid and compelling.’ JENNY BARRY, BooksPlus
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The story ‘The Fields of Early Sorrow’ has been published previously and revised for this edition. It won The Age Short Story Award in 2010 and was published in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald on 8 January 2011. This story was also published in Award Winning Australian Writing 2011.
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