![]() ![]() ![]() The idea of embalming a book, saying it's done, was foreign."įrom Galway, Brendan sets out with seven pilgrims to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a curragh made of mountain ash and oxhide to find Arcadia, not knowing where "the hard lines of the world end". ![]() The monks would take a book and transcribe it, add a bit and pass it around. It's too late."įor Navigatio Holland drew on the spirit of medieval scholarship in which manuscripts are not an "ossified statement of a genius as we take today but rather an organic investigation. "I probably wouldn't be able to write a vampire book. "There are times when a phone bill comes through and I think, 'What the hell am I doing? Why don't I just write sci-fi and crime and make the dough and run?'." He pauses. Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize and shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year, the novel follows motherless Greywood North, who falls in with the wild boys of the town Mary Smokes with terrible consequences.īrisbane-based Holland followed that book with the short story collection, Riding the Trains in Japan, and The Darkest Little Room, a literary thriller set in Ho Chi Minh City, which is to be made into a feature film by Scott Street Films, whose founders worked on various episodes of The Slap and with Chris Lilley. Loss pervades The Mary Smokes Boys, the book that made his name. Holland is a respected but often underrated Australian writer with a pilgrim's propensity for puzzling out life's mysteries. ![]()
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