'Sit down and let me light my pipe, I have a murder story to tell. Here in the heart of Tallangatta, a killing so callous that tongues still wag. But listen to me, my tongue - it knows the truth, or leastways tells the story bloody well.'
When Jack Noonan and his wife Isabelle flee the mines of Cornwall for Australia, they come expecting the land of plenty. Rabbits and politicians are what they find instead, in a country where nature flouts the best endeavours.
Jack survives as a trapper, and lures human prey with his knack for telling stories. Even his son Miles is caught by his fabulous yarn-spinning - until enough is enough and the unravelling begins.
'The Book Of Miles' is a mischievous God-mocking, rhapsodical novel about the struggle of a man and a nation to stand on their own.
