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Inside a duffel bag she carries a stone heart, alongside a map to lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer who she believes put a curse on her family. By her side are the most unlikely travelling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a fallen Japanese fighter pilot. The treasure lies before them, but close behind them trails the dark. And above them, always, are the shimmering skies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves, All Our Shimmering Skies is an odyssey of true love and grave danger, of darkness and light, of bones and blue skies. 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He's just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to be a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way - not the least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary Brisbane drug dealer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut now Eli's life is going to get a whole lot more serious: he's about to meet the father he doesn't remember, break into Boggo Road Gaol on Christmas Day to rescue his mum, come face to face with the criminals who tore his world apart, and fall in love with the girl of his dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAwards:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 ABIA Book of the Year Award, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 Indie Book Award, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 People's Choice Award, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMUD Literary Prize 2019, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 ABIA Audiobook of the Year, Winner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Longlisted\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2019 Colin Roderick Award, shortlist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReviews:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Boy Swallows Universe is a wonderful surprise: sharp as a drawer full of knives in terms of subject matter; unrepentantly joyous in its child's-eye view of the world; the best literary debut in a month of Sundays.' 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