Diary of a Bad Year Francis Pryor 'Not a simple act of

'Not a simple act of ventriloquism but a true marriage of minds' DAN CHAON

Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin

so close their heads might touch

seamy and extremely strange America of the nineteenth century: a historical novel so richly involving and so touching that you never want it to end

But when he delivers her safely to her destination

Diary of a Bad Year Francis Pryor 'Not a simple act ofAn eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in an immoral war on terror, a war that involves the use of torture? Then in the laundry room of his apartment block he encounters an alluring young woman. He