Rural Dreams
Stories From The Bush
$23.60
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
From award-winning crime writer Margaret Hickey comes a collection of captivating short stories celebrating the Australian countryside.
Margaret Hickey’s Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke, introducing the kinds of characters you might expect in the country – as well as some you might not.
A football coach ponders obsession … a mouse plague dictates schoolyard politics … a failed playwright asks ‘who gets the farm?’ … and a young woman returns to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761351099 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761351095 |
| Author: | Margaret Hickey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 197mm x 131mm |
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About The Author
Margaret Hickey
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and has a deep interest in rural lives and communities. She is the author of six crime novels:
- Cutters End
- Stone Town
- Broken Bay
- The Creeper
- An Ill Wind
- Cold River
She also has a collection of short stories titled Rural Dreams.
Cutters End was awarded the BAD Crime Sydney Festival’s Danger Prize and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for First Fiction. Margaret won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction in 2025 for The Creeper.
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