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My Planets: a fictive memoir
Winner, 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Digital Narrative.
Imagine this. You’re 50 years old. An only child, from a Jewish family. The people you thought of as your mother and father are dead.
Then, in the middle of the night you get a phone call from the other side of the planet telling you they’ve found your mother. Alive. Your real mother. Suddenly, you become the oldest of seven across two families. All your assumptions about yourself are swept away.
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The Terrorist
In this novel, Ben Fine is no ordinary Australian, but these aren’t exactly ordinary times. A clash of cultures has beset the world: George W. Bush has declared the War on Terror, and the Fines have taken in a Muslim homestay student.