Last Train to Menindee dystopian He has won the Children's

He has won the Children's Book Council of the Year Award 4 times during his career

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WINNER: Gold Rush by Zachary Pryor (Open Category)

this contemporary fiction celebrates resilience

Last Train to Menindee dystopian He has won the Children'sGenre: Outback Memoir There's solace in asylum, but the voices never rest. When a half submerged body appears at Menindee Lakes, a mother overwhelmed by the trauma of her youngest sons schizophrenia insists police abandon further enquiry. Thirteen years later, her only remaining son travels from Queensland to outback Menindee on the banks of the Darling River. Here, he unfolds a past inextricably tied to the chaos of his younger brother's life journey