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1 y separately published work icon Tank Water Michael Burge , Adelaide : MidnightSun , 2021 23069011 2021 single work novel crime

'James Brandt didn’t look back when he got away from his rural hometown as a teenager. Now he has returned to Kippen for the first time in twenty years because his cousin Tony has been found dead under the local bridge.

'The news that Tony has left him the entire family farm triggers James’s journalistic curiosity – and his anxiety – both of which cropped up during his turbulent journey to adulthood. But it is the unexpected homophobic attack he survives that draws James into a hunt for the reasons one lonely Kippen farm boy in every generation kills himself.

'Standing in the way is James’s father, the town’s recently retired top cop, who is not prepared to investigate crimes no-one reckons have taken place. James must use every newshound’s trick he ever learned in order to uncover the brutal truth.

'A coming-of-age story and crime thriller with a large and gentle heart.'

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1 y separately published work icon Merely Players Michael Burge , 2016 Coochiemudlo Island : Michael Burge , 2015 8849486 2016 single work drama
1 y separately published work icon Closet His, Closet Hers Michael Burge , Coochiemudlo Island : Michael Burge , 2015 8865407 2015 selected work short story

'A collection of ten stories, variations on a theme: hiding from the truth.

'The matron who interprets her sexual desire as physical pain, obsessed with one of her nurses to the point of stalking.

'The father who has liaisons with men at public toilets, and the kid who works out he knows the bloke.

'The painter who is out but not too proud, not until she’s achieved something with her life, and the Auschwitz survivor she must care for in her day job.

'The mother who tries to find ‘the right girl’ for her son, only to come face-to-face with his male partner.

'The daughter who finds her gay uncle on Facebook and confronts her Christian father about his homophobia in one insightful email.

'The teenager who realises at Bible camp that he’s as gay as one of the teachers, and the girl who unwittingly pursues him.

'The artist who rents a room to his childhood friend, only to face the consequences of the secrets they tease out of one another.

'The country woman who is not sure if what she sees from her back step is real or not, and the grandson who comes out to her in a postcard.

'Captured at the crossroads of their lives, these people face choices between extraordinary heroism and cowardice.' (Publication summary)

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