Book description
Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old
Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find
would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the
body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a
more personal kind of history. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby
shack, seems to know something of the corpse's identity - and also its
connection to the shipwreck. He begins telling David about his own
past, a story of a life marred by passion, rivalry and betrayal. But
what does he know about the ship and the murder - and will he tell
David before it is too late?
James Bradley was born in 1967. He has twice been named as one
of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists and has
won the Fellowship of Australian Writers Literature Award, the
Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award and has been shortlisted for the
Miles Franklin Literary Award. He is the author of a collection of
poetry called Paper Nautilus and the novels Wrack, The Deep Field and
The Resurrectionist. In 2008 The Resurrectionist was chosen as a
Richard and Judy Summer Read, becoming a major bestseller. He lives in Sydney.
