The Devil's Eye - Softcover

Townsend, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0732283663 ISBN 13: 9780732283667

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel ...It is 1899, and one of the fiercest storms in history is brewing - a hurricane named Mahina. to a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets, and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. Nearly two thousand men, women and children are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream. Praise for Affection: 'a literary tour de force' the Australian 'this is strong stuff. the oppressive humidity of townsville seems almost to drip from the page and lends Affection a hypnotic, dreamlike quality that is hard to shake ...an astonishing novel' Vogue 'a bona fide page-turner' Sydney Morning Herald

About this title

About the Author

Ian Townsend is a journalist who worked for many year with ABC Radio National. He has won four national Eureka Prizes for science and medical journalism, and an Australian Human Rights Award for journalism. His first novel, Affection, based on the 1900 plague outbreak, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, the Colin Roderick Award, the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the National Year of Reading, and was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC award. His second novel, The Devil's Eye, was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award. He lives in Brisbane with his wife, Kirsten MacGregor, and their three daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0732283663
• ISBN 13: 9780732283667
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382