"Australia's most decorated novelist crafts the story of Jaxie Clackton, a brutalized rural youth who strikes out for the wilds of Western Australia after his father's violent death. All he carries is a rifle and a waterjug. All he wants is peace and freedom. But surviving in the salt lands alone is a savage business. Then he discovers he's not alone. In a brutal yet lyrical tale of unlikely friendship and yearning, Jaxie meets fellow exile Fintan...

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600s, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.