When There's Nowhere Else To Run

Murray Middleton

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English

Allen & Unwin
27 January 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Australian Fiction

Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires takes asylum with old friends in the Dandenong Ranges. An editor-in-chief drives his sister halfway around the country to an east-coast rehabilitation clinic. A single mother flies to Perth with her autistic son for one last holiday. A father at the end of his tether tries to survive the chaos of the Sydney Royal Easter Show. A group of young friends hire a luxury beach house in the final weeks of one of their lives. A postman hits a pedestrian and drives off into the night...When There's Nowhere Else to Run is a collection of stories about people who find their lives unravelling. They are teachers, lawyers, nurses, firemen, chefs, gamblers, war veterans, hard drinkers, adulterers, widows and romantics. Seeking refuge all across the country, from the wheat belt of Western Australia, the limestone desert of South Australia, the sugarcane towns of Queensland, the hinterland of New South Wales to the coastline of Victoria, they discover that no matter how many thousands of kilometres they put between themselves and their transgressions, sometimes there's nowhere else to run...

By: Murray Middleton
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 238g
ISBN: 9781760292584
ISBN 10: 1760292583
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 January 2016
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Murray Middleton was born with fractured hips in 1983. He spent the first three months of his life in plaster and has broken most bones since. He won The Age Short Story Award in 2010 with 'The Fields of Early Sorrow'. When There's Nowhere Else to Run is his first published collection of short stories. He currently lives in Melbourne and won't publish a second collection of stories until the Saints win a second premiership...

Reviews for When There's Nowhere Else To Run

Vivid and compelling. -- Jenny Barry, BooksPlus Masterfully controlled, lingers long in the memory. -- Rohan Wilson, author of The Roving Party and To Name Those Lost Assured, witty and wise. -- Best Books of 2015 * The Australian *

Long-listed for Indie Book of the Year - Debut Fiction 2016 (Australia)
Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Awards - UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing 2016 (Australia)