RED (2022) Australian Fiction/ Humour
William Boyston’s brain is filled with co-ordinates and vectors. He’s sacrificed everything to get his pilot licence, and it’s left him with a massive overdraft, an unhealthy obsession with Top Gun, and an addiction to Luigi’s best Italian coffee. Renting a house in the busy metropolis of Melbourne, in 1994, with Adam, his cool-but-unwashed, bushwalking flatmate, he only has three things on his mind. Flying. Sex. Money. The first is his passion, and the other two are always in short supply.
Desperate to pay off his escalating debt, he needs to start at the bottom of the career ladder – and relocate 3000km, to work in the harsh, far north of Australia. Which means he has to say goodbye to his prized Toyota Corolla T18, to Adam, and to their intriguing new flatmate, Molly Malone. In the remote towns of the Northern Territory, Will’s life is soon defined by stifling heat, squalid accommodation, and the peculiar habits of the locals. But he lives to fly. It’s all he’s ever wanted. Except there’s also Molly now – that girl he just can’t seem to forget.
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LIKE TWO MEXICANS DANCING (2016) BIO/Memoir
Once upon a song, there was a boy. A chance encounter. A shared love of music. This is a story about love, friendship and finding a home. Experience the world through the eyes of an English girl in her twenties seeing Australia in 1988, for the first time.
Set in Tasmania and in Melbourne, Like Two Mexicans Dancing remembers a great Melbourne band, The Fish John West Reject and their acoustic rock thrashabilly. If you were going to pub gigs in the Nineties, you would have seen them playing at The Punters Club, at venues around Melbourne, and interstate. With photographs, articles and memorabilia about the band, the story celebrates the unique features of the Australian landscape, and a very specific moment in musical history.
Available in paperback, and Kindle e-book.
Angela J Dawson 