Christos Tsiolkas: 7 ½ [2023] paperback FTRAN McDonald shares vivid accounts of

McDonald shares vivid accounts of the constant war of attrition between prisoners and prison authorities over the smuggling of contraband like drugs and phones

a legion of Malazan marines marches towards Silver Lake

courting women

It provides fascinating insight into his visual conception of many of the places and events familiar to readers of The Hobbit

'Fast-paced and packed with action

Christos Tsiolkas: 7 ½ [2023] paperback FTRAN McDonald shares vivid accounts ofA man arrives at a house on the coast to write a book. Separated from his lover and family and friends, he finds the solitude he craves in the pyrotechnic beauty of nature, just as the world he has shut out is experiencing a cataclysmic shift. The preoccupations that have galvanised him and his work fall away and he becomes lost in memory and beauty. He begins to tell us a story A retired porn star who is made an offer he can't refuse for the sake of