Rising of the Lights, A Jun 2023 and pastels from botanical sources

and pastels from botanical sources

and literary fraud

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This long-awaited new novel from one of our finest writers is a sweeping epic set in literal and figurative blight in a fictional Australian geography

Rising of the Lights, A Jun 2023 and pastels from botanical sourcesFrom the Booker shortlisted author, an audacious comic lament for a world that no longer knows itself. The cure for loneliness causes loneliness. Thats the human condition. In a reeling world of fraudsters and hypnotists, sleep talkers and estranged twins, false alibis and second chances, Rusty Wilson is beset on all sides by mysteries. Why was his childhood decided by a throw of dice, why has his wife confessed to a lover, and why do his parents no