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An epic true story of greed and malice, power and revenge, from an acclaimed Australian storyteller
2014, Moree, New South Wales: Ian Turnbull, a 79-year-old farmer from a grazier family with a legacy stretching to white settlement, is embroiled in a legal case sparked by Glen Turner, an environmental officer who witnesses illegal land clearing on Turnbull’s property.
As night falls, Turnbull confronts Turner on a road abutting the property. After stalking him for twenty minutes, he shoots Turner repeatedly, finally ending his life with a shot in the back. The explosive effects of this murder rip through the local community, the courts and all who come into the story’s orbit.
This brutal killing is a crucible for the most urgent questions for Australians today. How do we manage the land in a time of crisis? In an age of climate change and species destruction, is the divide between urban conservationists and rural landholders forever intractable? Can we learn to use the soil to which we all belong without stripping it bare? Kate Holden brings her discerning eye to this gripping tale of land, law, retribution and clemency. The Winter Road speaks to the heart of the nation we are, and the nation we should seek to become.
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Rights held: world; film/TV
Author Biography
KATE HOLDEN is the author of two acclaimed memoirs, In My Skin and The Romantic, and a regular contributor to The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and The Age.
Black Inc.
An imprint of Schwartz Books, Black Inc. is a leading independent Australian book publisher of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We are passionate about diversity, inclusivity, social justice, new ideas and writing which informs, entertains and inspires. We are fiercely independent, but also strongly commercial. We publish local and international commercial mass-market titles under our Nero imprint, and children’s books under Piccolo Nero. Our La Trobe University Press imprint brings leading scholars and exports to deliver books of high intellectual quality, substance and originality. Schwartz Books also publishes the issue-defining journals Quarterly Essay and Australian Foreign Affairs.
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- Publisher Black Inc.
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781760640361
- Publication Country or regionAustralia
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 32.99 AUD
- Pages336
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Dimensions234 x 153 mm
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