Shadowboxing by Tony Birch

Shadowboxing by Tony BirchChange for us came so unexpectedly. One day my father was stalking the family as he had done for most of our lives, skulking from room to room, accompanied by a menacing silence that we had long ago accepted. And then he was gone. Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule, it captures a period of decay, turmoil and change

Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks offers readers brilliant insights into the work of one of Australias greatest living writers

from hero to traitor

A beautiful gift for the adventurers in your family

The first son of a shepherd

Tony had found me

It is a story about the power of love and staying the course

border policing

What that small boy needs is an army

photographed so vividly you can almost smell the freshly chopped parsley

For generations past and generations to come

} In these finely observed and probing essays

this is Asian home cooking unlike anything you've experienced before